Jeffrey P. Utz, M.D. wrote:
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> Doesn't matter. The important part is that people who live their lives
> according to their beliefs live longer and healthier than those who don't.
> So if you are (pick one: agnostic, atheist, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish,
> Muslim) and live according to your beliefs (however that might be), then you
> are more likely to live a longer, healthier life. If you do nto live
> according to your beliefs, you are less likely to live a long, heatlhy life.
> It is the living according to one's beliefs that seems to be important.
You just might have a point here. I recently watched a movie about the Newton
brothers, with a little documentary tagged on the end. Apparently they believed
they were right in robbing banks during their youth, and insisted so until the
day they died. All four of them lived into their eighties and nineties, one of
them after being shot five times with a .45 when in his thirties, and almost
dying. So, there is something to be said for belief, I suppose. :)
