Survey: 35% of Americans believe Bible study and prayer alone can overcome mental illness

[Dusty Bake Activate]

lol, exactly....

in the world of some of them ................Atheist are the most oppressed group in history and they get rocks thrown at them just for leaving the house...

Lol...y'all are so funny. I posted an article involving polling information on religious attitudes toward mental illness in this country. But somehow the response it gets is "Why are you mean atheists always picking on religious folks on the internet?" and bogus victim-claiming accusations.

You can feel free to discuss the thread topic if you want though.

Some are just sensitive. Good thing the Muslims on this board aren't sensitive cuz i don't think they would post here..., lol.

Putting an "lol" at the end of that statement was the only accurate thing in your post.

 

[88m3]

This explain a lot

 

[Blackking]

Lol...y'all are so funny. I posted an article involving polling information on religious attitudes toward mental illness in this country. But somehow the response it gets is "Why are you mean atheists always picking on religious folks on the internet?" and bogus victim-claiming accusations.

You can feel free to discuss the thread topic if you want though.

Putting an "lol" at the end of that statement was the only accurate thing in your post.

I was responding to a post, not the thread.....

And that post was in response to the 'victim oppressed by religion' stance of some of the atheist.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I was responding to a post, not the thread.....

And that post was in response to the 'victim oppressed by religion' stance of some of the atheist.

So where is this supposed "victim oppressed by religion" stance in this thread?

 

[nineteeneightysix]

What they need to do is conduct a study to show the prevalence of mental illness among super religious people, moderate religious people, religious people, not religious people (I am spiritual), atheist, moderate atheist, and super atheists...

This will be interesting to know...

 

[the cac mamba]

Why is it that atheists feel the need to take jabs at theists? I?

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/reth...ight-support-action-on-climate-change.149119/

pick a reason. maybe atheists arent comfortable with someone stupid enough to believe in a magic space daddy, controlling government policy

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

What they need to do is conduct a study to show the prevalence of mental illness among super religious people, moderate religious people, religious people, not religious people (I am spiritual), atheist, moderate atheist, and super atheists...

This will be interesting to know...

I posted this about religiosity and depression a few days ago, but the mod closed the thread. http://www.thecoli.com/threads/study-religious-believers-more-depressed-than-atheists.149493/

 

[Illuminatos]

Well, 35% of Americans must be stupid then.

 

[Kritic]

i saw that thread too late. i was gonna go in to start writing some sh1t but the mod closed it.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I guess no one read the article. It was targeting 'evangelical Christians' which account for about 15% of the entire Christian world community. Since 85% of Christians aren't 'evangelical', the vast majority of Christians aren't the focus of the study.

'Evangelicals' are sometimes confused with 'fundamentalists', but they aren't the same.​

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I guess no one read the article. It was targeting 'evangelical Christians' which account for about 15% of the entire Christian world community. Since 85% of Christians aren't 'evangelical', the vast majority of Christians aren't the focus of the study.

'Evangelicals' are sometimes confused with 'fundamentalists', but they aren't the same.​

I guess you didn't read the article. It said 48% of the people in the survey who identified as evangelicals agreed with the statement, but nowhere did it say the survey targeted or selectively oversampled evangelicals.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I guess you didn't read the article. It said 48% of the people in the survey who identified as evangelicals agreed with the statement, but nowhere did it say the survey targeted or selectively oversampled evangelicals.

I guess you didn't read the title of the article......

Evangelicals largely believe prayer can cure mental illness, survey finds

....and 35% of 1,001 people = 351 people (rounded up). Now, are the 48% who self-identified taken from that 35% or from the 1,001 since the article didn't clarify that at all?

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[the cac mamba]

What they need to do is conduct a study to show the prevalence of mental illness among super religious people, moderate religious people, religious people, not religious people (I am spiritual), atheist, moderate atheist, and super atheists...

This will be interesting to know...

i would qualify living in fear of an invisible being who has a terrible place for you if you disobey him, as a mental illness

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I guess you didn't read the title of the article......



....and 35% (non-evangelicals) of 1,001 people = 351 people (rounded up).​

lol...The title of the article was due to the survey showing that evangelicals on average are more likely to agree with the statement. But again, there is nothing to indicate that the survey was targeting evagelicals.

35% of Americans polled said they agree with the statement, not 35% of evangelicals.

 

[nineteeneightysix]

I posted this about religiosity and depression a few days ago, but the mod closed the thread. http://www.thecoli.com/threads/study-religious-believers-more-depressed-than-atheists.149493/

Great post...
That's an interesting study, and it makes sense in a way...

Especially, the fact that Catholics are less depressed than the other religious groups, because Catholics are not required to know or follow the Bible, as long as they tell all their little dirty secrets to their pervert priests, then all is good..This takes away some of the repressions on personal freedom that certain religions impose....

Problems with the study is that they didn't include Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs, these are some of the biggest religions in the world...Maybe they did...I am just going by what you posted...

Therefore, it's kind of weak to say "religion is a pre-disposition to major depression"...They should say Christianity and Spirituality, may contribute to some depression...

I also have a problem with the way they measured depression...The study was done in Western Countries, I think part of their measurement of depression should include a clinical diagnosis, and also antidepressant prescriptions...

Also, how do you take away the effect of secular Western debauchery that is promoted in the media and throughout Western society...?

For example, if you are a Hip Hopper and you are placed in a Heavy Metal environment, logically you will feel more "depressed" than a Heavy Metal dude, because you feel like you are in the "wrong world"...So, is it the Hip Hop making you depressed, or the fact that you are in an environment you feel like you don't belong in...?

I don't see how anybody who really believes in the Bible can be happy in this world, the blatant promotion of homosexuality, transsexuals, values that contradict what the Bible teaches and etc...

If you say you are Christian, and you are happy in this world, then I question your faith, belief and actions as a Christian...