Thread by @DevonShapiro

Thread on religion and atheism

Atheism and agnostic beliefs result in suicidal thoughts. Atheist doctors and non-religious hospitals also were more likely to recommend suicide to their patients.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Atheists have the highest rate of suicide in the world, followed by Buddhists(reincarnation?), Christians and Hindus. Muslims have the lowest rates due to being more religious. For Christians it's probably high because they're only culturally religious
journals.uio.no/index.php/suic…

Atheists are more ignorant and more likely to deny facts when they go against their personal political views, when science contradicts their beliefs, for example on the issue of gay rights.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

More religiosity results in lower rates of drug use as well as less likely to be friends with drug users, less religious resulted in more drugs. Being involved in religious community organizations and praying had the biggest effect on decreasing drug use.
jstor.org/stable/353639

More Islam results in lower rates of HIV. Primarily due to Islamic values that prohibit getting drunk which can result in risky sexual behavior as well as banning sex outside of marriage.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Islam successfully removed alcoholism from Arabia via it's step by step prohibition in the Middle Ages, by replacing dependency on alcoholism with a religious community that supported addicts. Religion is the most effective way to combat addiction

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

All major Abrahamic religions were found to have protective effects against suicide. A religious community is again found to be the most important as well as church attendance and praying. Religious people were also less likely to inflict self-harm
guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.152…

Muslims are the least likely to have pre-marital/have affairs. As a country gets more Islamic influence, it's non-Muslim inhabitants will also have less pre-marital sex & adulterous affairs. Muslim women are also the least likely to commit adultery/cheat

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

More religion results in lower alcoholism, marijuana use, smoking, crime, depression, anxiety, & results in higher self-esteem and well-being. Less religion results in the exact opposite and has an overall negative effect on life in all categories.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Abrahamic religions over all protected against suicide completion, due to religious values and social support from religious communities.

Eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism however do not have these effects due to their lax views on suicide.

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Higher religiousness results in higher meaning in life/purpose in life, which results in better mental health. More religious people have a higher quality of life and feel more at peace with it, as well as have more positive emotions, like happiness.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Muslims have the highest life satisfaction out of all religions. Being Muslim makes one more happy than earning a 6 figure salary. Whereas being an atheist makes one more unhappy than being a poor person, and over all are the most unhappiest group

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…

Children raised in religious schools are the more educated, well behaved, and preform better on tests. Despite less funding. Religious schools have higher expectations of students, give them harder courses, and close racial achievement gaps.

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Despite self-reporting they did not believe in God, when atheists dared God to bring harm upon them, they felt as much fear as religious people, but did not have the same fear when daring Santa Clause to do the same or wishing for the harm to happen

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Religion has a beneficial effect on survival. Attending church also decreased mortality. Outside of factors like less smoking/drinking, religion still results in higher rate of survival, better cardiovascular health, and resistance to health problems.

karger.com/Article/Abstra…

Industrialization has led to relaxed natural selection and thus the spread of fitness-damaging genes.

As well as the spread of ideologies like atheism & liberalism, which harm society and could not survive in more selective pre-industrial societies.

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Sexual harassment is a huge epidemic in atheist movements. Many atheist leaders like Richard Dawkins even mock women for being sexually harassed and tell them it's normal.

Women are not safe at atheist events and face unwanted sexual harassment.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…