A 2004 study, however, showed that religious adults were a third less likely than secular adults to lack a high school diploma, and a third more likely to have at least one college degree. Given two people, one of whom has a college degree and one of whom doesn't, but who earn the same salary and are identical in age, gender, race and political views, the college graduate will be 7 percent more likely to be a churchgoer.
Secularizing writers often like to imagine how much better the world would be without religion. They should pray that they don't get their wish.
Daniel C. Peterson is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic at BYU, where he also serves as editor in chief of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative and as director of advancement for the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. He is the founder of MormonScholarsTestify.org. He blogs daily at dcpsicetnon.blogspot.com.
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My greatest joys in this life are all due to my faith. I'm far from perfect. I make mistakes. I have miserable days. But I am certainly very happy and love my life and the people in it. I've never taken an anti-depressant either. I haven't lived in More..
"Secularizing writers often like to imagine how much better the world would be without religion. They should pray that they don't get their wish."
Great commentary!
I feel that I am just as happy now as a non-believer as I was when I did believe. The big difference now is that I don't have to attend a lot of boring meetings. So I guess I give the happiness edge to the non-belief lifestyle.