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Originally Posted by braisler
I'm not sure that I see your point, Willravel. The last sentence of your post seems to indicate that you find this study to the counter of absolute and certain belief in god. It is quite the opposite. The tone of the article suggests that people of faith have lower anxiety about making decisions that that this benefit is arrive at through their faith.
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Based on the understanding that as one is more depressed, one is likely to be more objective and have a more correct impression of the world (I'm trying to find the link for this, I think it was on reddit recently), the assertion would be that the alleviation of anxiety associated with religion here comes with an incorrect or imbalanced view of reality.
Sorry, I kinda put my cart before my horse with my last post. I read the article as being a scathing negative about believers—that their ignorance can be blamed for their bliss—and that kind of thing has already been said a million times.