Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 2:02am
UK study: Faith makes people happier
Another study has found that sincere and active religious belief makes people happy, the Daily Mail reports. Statistics have shown repeatedly that church attendance, family life and stable marriages are the building blocks of a happy life.
Prof. Andrew Clark of the Paris School of Economics and Dr. Orsolya Lelkes of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research presented their research at the conference of the Royal Economic Society in Coventry. They said religious believers are happier overall than atheists or agnostics and regular church attendance and an active prayer life make people happier than passive belief alone, LifeSiteNews.com reported Tuesday.
Data gleaned from thousands of Europeans and British people say religion can help people cope with life's disappointments and difficulties including the most stressful, such as the death of loved ones, divorce and unemployment. Religious believers have higher levels of satisfaction and suffer less psychological damage from life's troubles.
Meanwhile, church attendance in Britain and elsewhere continues its decades-long decline. Recent figures show a 500,000 fall in typical Sunday attendance in Britain since the last comparable research in 1998.
Prof. Andrew Clark of the Paris School of Economics and Dr. Orsolya Lelkes of the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research presented their research at the conference of the Royal Economic Society in Coventry. They said religious believers are happier overall than atheists or agnostics and regular church attendance and an active prayer life make people happier than passive belief alone, LifeSiteNews.com reported Tuesday.
Data gleaned from thousands of Europeans and British people say religion can help people cope with life's disappointments and difficulties including the most stressful, such as the death of loved ones, divorce and unemployment. Religious believers have higher levels of satisfaction and suffer less psychological damage from life's troubles.
Meanwhile, church attendance in Britain and elsewhere continues its decades-long decline. Recent figures show a 500,000 fall in typical Sunday attendance in Britain since the last comparable research in 1998.