I understood you clearly. Nothing was misinterpreted. Reread my posts. You may want to brush up on your comprehension skills.Oh you should have seen what I originally wrote and decided to tone down! You didn't understand a damn thing. You did what liberals always do, you reacted with the typical knee-jerk challenge to what you didn't like with demands for links and totally misinterpreted context of what was said. Your empty little heads are closed to any thought that isn't 100% in accordance to liberal doctrine.
Once again, to reiterate what I said earlier, alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, etc. is NOT more prevalent in any certain group over another. It can strike anyone.Once again, I just posted a Wiki page chock-full of independent studies which conclude otherwise, dimwit. No one has claimed that alcoholism, depression, etc., can't strike anyone. That was never stated by me and was never a point that I tried to make.
That was not the purpose of the 498 studies. The studies concern religion and happiness. These studies have nothing to do with "comparing" spiritual people to non-spiritual with regard to which group lives longer or "comparing" one group to another regarding the prevalence of addictions, depression, etc. Reread the article.You've been given a link to 498 studies which were peer reviewed and came to the same conclusion. Yes, people who are happier, have less depression, suffer less from alcoholism, drug abuse, etc., DO tend to live longer. I'm certain that at least a few of the 498 studies examined that very thing. But it takes a real moron of epic proportion to even challenge such a claim.