Religious people live four years longer than atheists, study finds: Scientists put it down to being more social, volunteering, and drinking less
The Ohio State University study was based on 1,000 obituaries published across the US in 2011
While the data set is small, the psychology research team insisted there is merit to the correlation
Religious people often drink less, socialize more, and volunteer more
By MIA DE GRAAF HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:07, 13 June 2018 | UPDATED: 20:25, 13 June 2018

Researchers have found a surprising correlation between longevity and religious faith.

Church-goers appear to live up to four years longer than atheists, at least according to an analysis of 1,000 obituaries published across the United States.

The Ohio State psychology researchers behind the study insist there is merit to the connection: people with religious affiliations often volunteer and engage in social activities throughout their lives - something routinely tied to longer lifespan.

But they found that this socializing only appeared to boost longevity by a year at most - suggesting other elements of religious life, such as low alcohol intake, could contribute.

The Ohio State University study was based on 1,000 obituaries published across the US in 2011. While the data set is small, the psychology research team insisted there is merit to the correlation

'There's still a lot of the benefit of religious affiliation that this can't explain,' study lead author Laura Wallace, a doctoral student in psychology at The Ohio State University.

Dr Baldwin Way, associate professor of psychology at Ohio State who co-authored the study, concurred.

He said that, while the findings may sound like tosh to atheists, there was a correlation they couldn't ignore.

'The study provides persuasive evidence that there is a relationship between religious participation and how long a person lives,' he said.

Dr Way surmises that this correlation might depend on how religious one's community is.

Indeed, the first installment of this study involved 505 obituaries published in the Des Moines Register in Iowa in January and February 2012.

There, the lifespan gap was even greater: religious people lived 9.45 years longer than their atheist peers - but that shrunk to 6.48 years when they took gender and marital status into account .

The second study included 1,096 obituaries from 42 major cities in the US published on newspaper websites between August 2010 and August 2011.

In this study, people whose obits mentioned a religious affiliation lived an average of 5.64 years longer than those whose obits did not, which shrunk to 3.82 years after gender and marital status were considered.

Many studies have shown that people who volunteer and participate in social groups tend to live longer than others.

The researchers combined figures from both studies to see if the volunteer and social opportunities that religious groups offer might explain the longevity boost.

Results showed that was only part of the reason why religious people lived longer, according to the researchers.

Wallace said: 'We found that volunteerism and involvement in social organisations only accounted for a little less than one year of the longevity boost that religious affiliation provided.'

Dr Way said the reason for their longevity may be related to the rules and norms of many religions that restrict unhealthy practices such as alcohol and drug use and having sex with many partners.

He said many religions also 'promote stress-reducing practices that may improve health, such as gratitude, prayer or meditation.'

The fact that the researchers had figures from other cities also allowed them to investigate whether the level of religiosity in a city and a city's 'personality' could affect how religious affiliation influenced longevity.

The findings showed that a key personality element related to longevity in each city was the importance placed on conformity to community values and norms.

In highly religious cities where conformity was important, religious people tended to live longer than non-religious people.

But in some cities there is a spillover effect.

Wallace added: 'The positive health effects of religion spill over to the non-religious in some specific situations.

'The spillover effect only occurs in highly religious cities that aren't too concerned about everyone conforming to the same norms. In those areas, non-religious people tend to live as long as do religious people.'

Dr Way said there are limitations to the study, including the fact that it could not control for important factors related to longevity such as race and lifestyle.

But a potential strength was that, unlike other studies, religious affiliation was not self-reported, but was reported by the obituary writer.

But Wallace said that the findings, published today by the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, provided additional support to the growing number of studies showing that religion does have a positive effect on health.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5840523/Religious-people-live-four-years-longer-atheists-study-finds.html

No problem ke!
After all, it is the religious people that are looking for 'long life and prosperity'!
Live longer with 'diseases' and 'misery'!
Yo-waaaaah!

Who dey compete with una?
Abeg! Siddon hia and inherit the 'earth' jor!

who believed this

That's cool.

KanwuliaExtra:


No problem ke!
After all, it is the religious people that are looking for 'long life and prosperity'!
Live longer with 'diseases' and 'misery'!
Yo-waaaaah!

Who dey compete with una?
Abeg! Siddon hia and inherit the 'earth' jor!

"And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee" (Deuternomy 7:15).

"With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him My salvation" (Psalm 91:16).

The promises above is the heritage of all children of God. Why then do you want to die before your time?

Everyone still dies at the end of the day. We are all living towards our death, there nothing we can do about it.

ponziponzi:


Everyone still dies at the end of the day. We are all living towards our death, there nothing we can do about it.

Do you know that there is the second death? Have you been insured?

OLAADEGBU:


Do you know that there is the second death? Have you insured?

Can you see how greedy you are? You are given a gift, a free life to live and enjoy, but to you, that's not enough, you still want an everlasting one. Continue...........

It's not how long you live that matters, but how well...

-Peace.

How Convenient 4 Religious Folks

If the athiest dies without repenting and converting, he/she goes to hell which is eternal death. While the born again, who they call religious, continues to live in eternity with God.

Athiests are living a self imposed bondage.

There's freedom in Christ Jesus.

Primesky:
If the athiest dies without repenting and converting, he/she goes to hell which is eternal death. While the born again, who they call religious, continues to live in eternity with God.

Athiests are living a self imposed bondage.

There's freedom in Christ Jesus.

Sheeple

hardwerk:


Sheeple

If you call me sheeple, then what are you?. I believe sheeple is derived from sheep.

Could the opposite be goatling?. But I know that sheep are gentle, obedient and teachable. While goats are stubborn and unreachable. If you're not a sheep then what are you?.

Alright.
Similar analysis should be conducted amongst our religious population.

Whom are those more likely to live longer than the OP

OLAADEGBU won't you desire to live longer; won't you abandon Jesus; now is time to switch religion

ponziponzi:


Can you see how greedy you are? You are given a gift, a free life to live and enjoy, but to you, that's not enough, you still want an everlasting one. Continue...........

The free gift is eternal life which is the lifetime of the never dying God. The life you have now is in your body and the moment it leaves your body it continues eternally either with God or without God. Your decision determines where you will spend your eternity.

OLAADEGBU:


The free gift is eternal life which is the lifetime of the never dying God. The life you have now is in your body and the moment it leaves your body it continues eternally either with God or without God. Your decision determines where you will spend your eternity.

And how do you know this?

ponziponzi:


And how do you know this?

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

OLAADEGBU:


"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

Written by same people who did not even understand that the sun is a star.

1 Corinthians 15:41-43
41 The sun has one kind of splendour, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendour.

42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;'

If they don't even have the basic understanding of what we already know, why should we trust them in more complex issues we don't understand?

Some people become atheist after reading some "demonic" encoded books(speaking from experience). They won't know.

They don't care about what happens after death.

OLAADEGBU:


"And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee" (Deuternomy 7:15).

"With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him My salvation" (Psalm 91:16).

The promises above is the heritage of all children of God. Why then do you want to die before your time?

How can I hate what I don’t know?
We just disagree in doctrines or beliefs, simple.

So the “diseases” will be laid on “those who hate thee?” So? Even if I “hate thee”, I should be plagued with all the “evil diseases from Egypt” kwa nu?

Hmmm! Interesting!

“With long life” of cataract and glaucoma abi?
Nna! I cannot die before my time o. When it your time or mine, NOTHING CAN STOP IT. If you like pray from today till tomorrow. No promises.

Live every day like it will be your last. . . With fulfillment and a sense of purpose.

Also, right handed people are said to live seven years longer than left handed people. What's your point?

ponziponzi:


Written by same people who did not even understand that the sun is a star.

1 Corinthians 15:41-43
41 The sun has one kind of splendour, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendour.

42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable;'

If they don't even have the basic understanding of what we already know, why should we trust them in more complex issues we don't understand?

This is what happens when atheists try to explain Bible verses they have no clue about. Vs 41 you quoted up there shows a modern scientific confirmation of biblical revelation. To the naked eye all stars look similar but when you analyse their respective light spectra you will see that they are uniquely different from each other. Each has its own distinctive ratio of apparent brightness to temperature and therefore different 'in glory' from all others.

LastDays777:


Some people become atheist after reading some "demonic" encoded books(speaking from experience). They won't know.

They don't care about what happens after death.

May the Lord have mercy on their souls.

johnydon22:
That's cool.

don't you want to live longer?
It's like you don't love yourself.
Surprised you're still an unbeliever for so many years despite the preaching and messages of God's love for you

DateMynd44:
don't you want to live longer?
It's like you don't love yourself.

Shouldn't you be vying to go to heaven? Why do you want to live longer and stall heaven more?

Surprised you're still an unbeliever for so many years despite the preaching and messages of God's love for you

Wow that's a lot to take in. Preach on

OLAADEGBU:


"And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee" (Deuternomy 7:15).

"With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him My salvation" (Psalm 91:16).

The promises above is the heritage of all children of God. Why then do you want to die before your time?

About 29,000 children under the age of five – 21 each minute – die every day, mainly from preventable causes. More than 70 per cent of almost 11 million child deaths every year are attributable to six causes: diarrhoea, malaria, neonatal infection, pneumonia, preterm delivery, or lack of oxygen at birth.
Web Results
UNICEF - Goal: Reduce child mortality
https://www.unicef.org/mdg/childmortality.html

What is your god doing about these kids that die daily?

johnydon22:

Shouldn't you be vying to go to heaven? Why do you want to live longer and stall heaven more?




Wow that's a lot to take in. Preach on

This study is actually correct. I can't believe that Myles Monroe and his wife lived four years longer than Richard Dawkins and George Carlin. Who would have concluded that Nabeel Qureshi would live four years longer than Lawrence Krauss? How did Ben Idahosa's daughter live longer than the chronic smoker Christopher Hitchens? Chai, Johnny my friends, let's humble ourselves before yahweh lest we died before all religious folks.

johnydon22:

Shouldn't you be vying to go to heaven? Why do you want to live longer and stall heaven more?




Wow that's a lot to take in. Preach on

as each day passes by you're drawing closer to your grave. That's the fact. There's no time remaining any longer don't harden your heart. It's for your own good.

Martinez19:
This study is actually correct. I can't believe that Myles Monroe and his wife lived four years longer than Richard Dawkins and George Carlin. Who would have concluded that Nabeel Qureshi would live four years longer than Lawrence Krauss? How did Ben Idahosa's daughter live longer than the chronic smoker Christopher Hitchens? Chai, Johnny my friends, let's humble ourselves before yahweh lest we died before all religious folks.

Martinez coming from you?

Martinez19:
This study is actually correct. I can't believe that Myles Monroe and his wife lived four years longer than Richard Dawkins and George Carlin. Who would have concluded that Nabeel Qureshi would live four years longer than Lawrence Krauss? How did Ben Idahosa's daughter live longer than the chronic smoker Christopher Hitchens? Chai, Johnny my friends, let's humble ourselves before yahweh lest we died before all religious folks.

I don't really care that's why I said "that's cool"

DateMynd44:
Martinez coming from you?

lol. That was sarcasm and Johnny understood that. Me and johnydon22 are confirmed atheists.

Martinez19:
lol. That was sarcasm and Johnny understood that. Me and johnydon22 are confirmed atheists.

I know johnydon22 to be an atheist since 2014 but I'm equally shocked of yours that's why I put up that surprised smiley.
Oboy repent oo Christ is real