“Happiness is neither within us only, nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.”- Blaise Pascal “When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.”- S
“Happiness is neither within us only, nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.”- Blaise Pascal “When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.”- Sigmund Freud Are religious people happier than atheists? Freud, as you ...
Buggle, F., Bister, D., Nohe, G., Schneider, W., & Uhmann, K. (2000). Are atheists more depressed than religious people? Free Inquiry, 20, 50-55.Buggle, F., Bister, D., & Nohe, G. (2000). Are atheists more depressed than religious people?: A new study tells the tale...
In the 1990s around 90%of Americansidentified as Christian. Now more than a quarter say they have no religion. This is significant to the election because 70% ofnon-religious votersin America are more likely to vote Democrat, according to a Pew Research Survey from ...
Are there atheists in the pulpit? More than you think. Some stay, some leave, some try to change what it means to believe, and some start atheist churches. How will this affect religion?
There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people. That is why I have decided to give my money back to society much faster than I had originally planned. I will give away virtually all my wealth through the Gates Foundation over...
Many people consider commitment to a religion to be a prerequisite for morality, arguing that the average person is not likely to behave morally without a religious or spiritual connection. For many others, religion and morality are separate concepts: Morals can develop regardless of whether a pers...
In the Netherlands, there are more than 150 ethnic broadcasting organizations (Bink, 2002), while there are more than 90 print and broadcast media produced in Germany (Raiser, 2002). The ethnic media in Germany serve 15 different ethnic communities, including people who identify as Albanian, ...
DFrom winning a complex war to developing a life-saving drugthere are so many things thatcan only be achieved if people work together in harmony. They can then achieve impressiveperformances that also benefi the individual. So, why do colleagues or others so often make thingsdifficult for anot...
A range of other, non-delusional beliefs also display evidence-irresponsiveness, including conspiracy beliefs (Bortolotti, 2023: 64; Gold and Gold 2024), religious beliefs (Van Leeuwen, 2017: 55; Ichino 2024: 84–5),24 and self-deceptive beliefs (Van Leeuwen, 2007: 422), but the ...