A recent study showed that religious people are happier than non religious people, do you agree with that?

Answer 1

I cannot speak for everyone but for myself I can definitely say that I KNOW I am .
Happiness depends on happenstance so I think it is wrong for me to say that I am "happier" the correct way to define what I, ( and any who truly know Jesus as their Savior) have is Peace. The kind of peace that is impossible to understand because even when bad things happen to me, and others like me, we can still smile and still be able to say "Praise GOD anyway even in the face of any adversity".
Many will give me a "thumbs down" but one thing is for sure...A person with an experience is NEVER at the mercy of a person with an argument !!!

Answer 2

It depends on what people mean by "religious".

I've known a lot of miserable people in my life who regularly attend church and do other "religious" things, yet they don't seem to be happy about it.

Then I have friends who only go to church for weddings and funerals--very "non-religious" in some people's eyes--and they are very peace-filled and happy. They also have a great ability to promote that happiness and sense of peace with everyone they know.

I think too many people get hung up over words like "religious" and "spiritual".

My experience tells me that faith is the key to happiness in this life, whether that is faith in God or faith in something else.

Some will say that a person can be happy in this life but sad in the next life.

Maybe.

But my faith teaches me that IF my faith doesn't transform me in this life, then I shouldn't expect it to do so when I die.

Answer 3

NO! But they are more delusional and that is where their assumed happiness comes from. I can teach anyone to be happy all the time but that would require they deny reality all the time.

Happiness is a state of mind as is sadness. Since most people are religious and we have unparalleled number of people that suffer from "depression" (I put depression in quotes since most people diagnosed with depression are not truely depressed but instead just very sad, sadness does not equal depression, but that is for another Q&A) it is the religious person that is depressed. They go to church and goto their therapist and take their anti-depressants and are still depressed. Why? It has been my experience that they never learn how to be happy, how to deal with life and all of it's varied problems and thanks to so many stupid psychologist, psychiatrists and other mental health workers who believe people are suppose to be happy all the time and hold many other irrational ideas that make people fail at changing their irrational beliefs and being happy. What i mean, for example, is Carl Rogers unconditional love. When people learn that love IS conditional and not a need, as Maslow wrongly believe, they can work at being happy with or with out love and enjoy all the things life has to offer and give up their neediness which becomes an obsession where they can not think about what they can do to win the love of the person they desire.

The sick religious person replaces the real love of another human for their imaginary Gods love which they make up in their mind and live in a world of delusions and rationalizations.

I hope this made sense to you. I was interrupted my a woman friend of mine who stopped by and lost my train of thought.

Answer 4

If you have been reading for the past year the comments here from unbelievers you will find they are not too happy even when religious "non biased questions" are asked. In that "respect" doesn't it speak for itself at least from this site.
On the other hand I think there are Atheists who are quite happy and religious people who are unhappy. It depends on what else is going on in a person's life as we all have joy and sorrow.

Answer 5

I'm a lot happier now that I'm an atheist, I was always afraid when I was a Christian and I hated it.

And someone said something about a lot of believers are in jail, well UNDER 2% of people in jail are atheists, the rest are believers. So that makes me think a lot of believers are unhappy, and some are criminals.

Answer 6

i think of I heard some thing a mutually as lower back approximately non secular human beings being statistically 'happier' than non-non secular human beings, however the justifications for any such distinction have been being debated over. the two way, i'm chuffed the way i'm.

Answer 7

There are thousands of religious people locked up in Jail (many times more than non-believers). I seriously doubt that these religious people are very happy.

Answer 8

And other studies have shown that nonreligious people are happier than religious people, but because happiness is extremely subjective, studies like this should be taken with a grain of salt.

Answer 9

I'm not really sure that I do as my being a Christian Preacher serves to make me realize how worthless I really am especially when compared to what God wants of us.
Religion in some cases actually serves to only place guilt on some.
While in other cases it causes some to refuse to accept any responsibility of their own failures and misdeeds.

Answer 10

Could you please cite this study? I'd like to read it.

In my own experience and observations of people, I haven't noticed any connection between happiness and religion or lack thereof. I know atheists and religious people who are happy and miserable. And I know some people who are fulfilled by their religion and others who attribute their religious upbringing with ruining much of their childhood.