the religious love to trumpet the idea that's been shown in survey is that
those who are religious tend to live longer tend to be have more life
satisfaction things like that at least in the United States
but that's not the entire equation really being religious is the one thing
it incorporates a lot of different beliefs
Ted Cruz OVR love the kid were both very much that's a very good point all that
can be encapsulated under the umbrella religion
a couple scientists from the University Morgan and at Simon Fraser University
decided to look into a few particular
religious beliefs in this case the specifically the idea
a punitive after like like hell the idea that after you die if you've been bad
you will roast for all eternity they say although
religiosity is consistently tied a greater well-being referring to the
research was talking about before
little research has examined which elements the religious belief of early
benefits
which do not and which may in fact be detrimental
and so they took a couple of different surveys like the Gallup world poll
the world value survey in the European value survey
and they use that data to look at particular aspects of religious belief
may conducted several %uh studies in one of them the control variables like
age income education level religious attendance and sex
they found that belief in hell was associated with unhappiness
well believe in Heaven was associated with happiness
yeah teams accuse super obvious to me I guess
in it you know be it might cut against the other idea that
if you look at it as you pointed out incredibly are incredibly simplistic
level
that if your religious you're going to be happier if you're not religious and
only religious people believe in Heaven and Hell
in of course if you're obsessed with this dark horrible place
you're more likely to and if you're hopeful person when a person who
believes that have it is
but is this you like I'm not religious so I believe neither
if you believe in hell don't you also believe in heaven and vice versa in that
generally the case yeah I mean if they could be that you're in a sec to
Christianity that doesn't place as much
emphasis on the threshold more min although Mormons don't believe in hell
for example they believe in something called you out more than 100 more men
and they believe the public
outer darkness so there's all these two years ahead sounds on it was
yeah me know and I know it and the gnashing of the teeth then there's a lot
of fun things with you I'm sure there's something I'm in this for you as well as
an atheist in just talk to religious people they basically have the right
little essays about have been held in the judge's after what they felt like
and they found that religious believers and non-believers both
should more emotional negativity when writing about Hell compared to the
control condition
it is notable that I've reflecting on hell negatively affected well-being
regardless of whether the participant identified as a religious believer
okay so thinking about Daria bad things makes you feel darkened thinking about
fiction or guard of that encourages
so you think about our chat well and that your stats what are the biggest
keys here because this care pointed out almost
everybody believes in heaven and hell if you believe it at all
and so it's just a matter what your concentrating on more
so if you should choose to concentrate on hell you're the kinda guy who things
like oh my god there's a way to go but
plus is one other element they didn't talk about on the story if
you're the kinda guy who's doing what the right things only cuz you worried
about how
warm then there's a lot on our thoughts going on in there that you're trying
desperately to suppress
and that's what might make you sad get us to imagine you you know some guys you
like
were used on T from the pastor her brother Donny
yet don t have an all-time low of her tight I
don t is always talking about how were the evil among us we're all gonna rot in
the pit of hell if we don't fix our lives and be
is the light for the poor yeah I just great to be around us
fun guy yet so I mean what is known for New Years W
and I think that's an important point because I think you see this kind of
fixation on hell and original thin and
you should only do these things in this life because you're trying to prevent
yourself from these punitive damages that come from going to hell
um when you see this Inc evangelical faith
overwhelmingly more than in other religions you just don't need like
modern
Christian fact where you know gay marriage is celebrated in that where
there that's progressive and it's all about Jesus is love they hardly ever
talk about it will actually
just directly speaking to that that's a very good point I would certainly agree
with you it seems like that would be the case
but they didn't actually but what I want to talk about this because we don't just
have christians watching the show many have you might fall into is another
other religions like that
they look into that and so have been hell are general terms can be applied to
the afterlife that many different faiths
you insert the other word for it and they discovered that held beliefs were
associated with lower well-being and heaven police were so sick with higher
wellbeing
for both Abrahamic Christianity Islam and Judaism
and none Abrahamic adherence they found no significant difference
this applies to the Hindus and you know you then tragedy has posed as well
many obvious like like religions that believe in reincarnation don't even
believe in hell they just believe that when you
when you die you're going to come back as a different typeof organism
maybe one that has a positive light for one that the negative like depending on
what you didn't have my be even more depressing I'm income magazine
caterpillar kinda so I
him right but at least you know your look with Republican state
representative
PS I don't you come back at the caterpillar you just have to be an
awesome caterpillar for like a week
yeah I do it all over again yeah I do your folks don't you know a lot to think
about people with real clinical
issues real depression like you know the a if having a house party life in your
depressed all the time
you're thinking about how you're not because you're literally without hope
and having this at the idea have it is by its very nature hope and if you
raised in religion where that
all you are targets at probably going to a I would never meant a chance
especially if you're predisposed in any way toward
and so we're all non-religious here and I i try to be careful
from time to time about religion and and I love the people have this
I don't obviously don't believe in Heaven or Hell I Bynum
passable right they say the least but I don't want to be where people's
hope about heaven and they wanna meet their loved ones and stuff but I i
and I love them for it and I i don't mean yeah I don't know
yeah it would that's what I call my something sacred to the grade
annoyance a previous grade because I don't know I don't know I don't know I
don't
I don't believe in the religions okay an outsider that I don't know
okay so and I know then you'll say how many things just please spare me ok yeah
alright so from but but hell
mealy I mean and I know that it's hard for us because we're not religious to
understand but
how could you possibly believe in how you made me really think
when you're near Seton with this stupid as pitchfork
really believe that anything poking a different timezone and it's all in your
burning in Burney
by leaping about God that would do that to people for like by the way slight
crimes like you took his name in Bay
brookhaven and so you gotta there with that taking poking you in the ass for
all eternity in your with Stalin and Hitler
yeah in a lot of these religions that aren't about works but that are fully
about grace
you can be like a fuckin Katie fiddler right for you die
you with that gave you this and you're going to happen you to be somebody who
yet committed petty crimes or didn't believe in God something like that
here in hell for eternity it makes no fucking no you're not a logic I never
heard of Katy Butler be home how I've been here
when you get early about so many the modern Christian faith that embrace gay
marriage
as shit about what they emphasize he right and and what's amazing is that now
what we're seeing from the popen from the Catholic Church is all about the
difference about this is he hasn't changed one pet
were right not is just like hit ok anymore
I will talk about abortion i wanna talk about gamer yeah alright nearly to the
great things we can do is talk about that
but I have nothing about helping people to help raise their you actually had a
very New Testament approach to
at all if the legislation kinda makes s cousin Jesus
yes in the New Testament take that I sequels are always worse than the
original I