Recently, however, these ideas have come under fire by medical and psychological research. The Mayo Clinic did an analysis of 850 mental health studies involving religious belief and involvement and found that mental health was positively affected by faith. [2]
Subsequently, 1,200 studies at research centers around the world have come to similar conclusions. For example, Psychologie Heute, a German journal, cites the marked improvement of multiple sclerosis patients in Germany's Ruhr District because of "spiritual resources." [3]
Professor Vitz did a study of the most prominent professed atheists in the last 400 years; it appears that those individuals neither were nor are paragons of mental health, and that a disproportionate number had strained relationships with their fathers. [4] [5]
Some challenge Prof. Vitz's argument that the temperament of an atheist arises from a strained relationship with his father, without addressing the possibility that both the atheism and the strained paternal relationship may have stemmed from the child's native cantankerous and rebellious temperament.
As a result of these facts, many have become convinced that religion is psychologically beneficial, and that it is atheism which is both a cause and a result of mental illness.
Answer by Soul6ess
thier prolly theists
Answer by 1337
creation+wiki=LIES
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Answer by Hagen
It's something called "confirmation bias".
Answer by God is Good!
Anyone who spends any time on R/S can easily conclude the faithfilled are more mentally stable.
Exhibit #1 - the denials (see answer above)
Exhibit #2 - The attackers (see ad hominem answer #1)
Answer by Anthem Demon
Do you have an unbiased source?
"Creation Wiki" isn't really reliable.
I actually went to your source to check their sources, and the source page wasn't found.
Hi,I did the following:
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