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Survivorship bias. Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing. This leaves those who are either too afraid to confront the cognitive dissonance or who were already happy in the first place.
Where do you get the premise of religion being a happier life?
Interesting. I wonder how you square that with results from "are you happy?" surveys comparing the religious and irreligious.
Believing you are happy and actually being happy are different things. Religious people believe that they're happier than other people, but they're not.
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Survivorship bias. Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing. This leaves those who are either too afraid to confront the cognitive dissonance or who were already happy in the first place.
Where do you get the premise of religion being a happier life?
Interesting. I wonder how you square that with results from "are you happy?" surveys comparing the religious and irreligious.
Survivorship bias. Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing. This leaves those who are either too afraid to confront the cognitive dissonance or who were already happy in the first place.
I think there's a chasm or 10 between declining a responsibility and denouncing your faith.
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Survivorship bias. Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing. This leaves those who are either too afraid to confront the cognitive dissonance or who were already happy in the first place.
Where do you get the premise of religion being a happier life?
next up - two thousand year study shows religion is not going away. signed - religious person
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Where do you get the premise of religion being a happier life?
I never said it was, I'm not sure why you think I did.
Assuming for argument's sake, that is.
Interesting. I wonder how you square that with results from "are you happy?" surveys comparing the religious and irreligious.
Believing you are happy and actually being happy are different things. Religious people believe that they're happier than other people, but they're not.
Even if that were true, the two likely wouldn't be distinguishable in any meaningful way.
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Believing you are happy and actually being happy are different things. Religious people believe that they're happier than other people, but they're not.
>Believing you are happy and actually being happy are different things Even if that were true, the two likely wouldn't be distinguishable in any meaningful way.
Self-delusion is a well researched topic. There are many studies.