I'll resist being droll... What stood out to me from the article was this:
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But Inzlicht cautions that anxiety is a "double-edged sword" which is at times necessary and helpful.
"Obviously, anxiety can be negative because if you have too much, you're paralyzed with fear," he says. "However, it also serves a very useful function in that it alerts us when we're making mistakes. If you don't experience anxiety when you make an error, what impetus do you have to change or improve your behaviour so you don't make the same mistakes again and again?"
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Mistakes like believing in a god when there is no rational proof that one exists. Mistakes like praying for things to get better when you should actually be
doing something to make things better.
Also the article claims that they 'controlled for personality and cognitive ability'. I didn't go far enough to look up the journal article that this Science Daily article was based on, but I would make the legitimate criticism of the work that it may not be possible to control for cognitive ability between believers and non-believers. Believers have that unknowable quantity they refer to as 'faith' which allows them to ignore the rational world and remain ignorant, perhaps blissfully so, as to the workings of the world.