Help an atheist get healthy - take him to church:
Attending a weekly religious service, regardless of your faith, may lower your risk of death by 20 percent compared to people who don’t attend services, researchers are reporting.
Poor atheists (and Sunday slackers everywhere) - now it’s not just their after lives that are at risk!
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I have done extensive research on this, and at least on the Earthly plane, the death rate for church-goers, atheists, and even godless pagan savages is 100%, eventually.
Thanks for the reminder. I had completely forgotten about choir practice tonight.
yes, wino; but this is about lowering your risk.
insurance companies give you better rates on term insurance the younger you are.
i can attest to this. college and pro football fans usually do not make it to church in the fall and i tend to look better than most of them.
I will testify of this which will bring you closer to the Lord. I resented going to church in my younger years, but I knew better. You can’t and don’t need to feel abandoned if the spirit of the Lord is always with you. Church attendance each week keeps one humble and repentant from one week to the next and in between. Go for it.
If weekly attendance at services lowers your risk by 20%, then I guess Muslims who attend services five times a day must be around even longer.
Semtex jackets aren’t too conducive to health.
And not wise to wear while banging your forehead on the ground either.
*I believe* attending church helps you live longer because it lowers stress. When you have someone on which to unburden yourself (God), feel like you’re not alone (God), have some hope for your future, eternally speaking (God), it helps you handle your everyday load of crap.
Muslims, on the other hand, do not believe that Allah is involved in their personal lives, other than already determining their fate. He is too big to be involved in the puny affairs of man. Also, their Allah does not teach them the calming emotions such as love and forgiveness (unless, to a certain extent, the target of your anger is Muslim). Allah gives a load of rules to follow and no real outlet for anger; in fact, Allah encourages anger and frenzy and an “eye for an eye” machismo, whether the facts of the situation bear it out or not.
Hence, while Christians may attend church and feel calmed and comforted, often Muslim go to mosque and come out angrier than when they went in. That anger will eat you alive - the blood pressure goes up, imagined slights are magnified, stress goes up, etc,
Disclaimer: Not every Muslim is a hate-filled, Christian killer wannabe. However, from what I’ve seen and heard and read, there is a large portion of the Muslim population that (secretly or not) would like to take out anyone who is not Muslim. And by “take out” I do not not mean for tea and crumpets.
And if you’re Catholic, you get the benefit of aerobics, too!
#8 AW
And a happy thanksgiving to you also.
Having lived among muslims for 9 years, I can assure you that the first sentence in your disclaimer is accurate. Just as every Baptist is not of the Westboro church and every Catholic not of the Dan Brown Opus Dei, muslims are not portrayed in the news media accurately; but then it wouldn’t be news would it. Not once were we harrased or made to feel uncomfortable, and we lived on the economy.
The minaret of the largest mosque in Khamis Mushayt was about 50 meters from my house. The imam removed the speaker facing the house out of simple courtesy. The kids knew when guest muezzins were doing the call from the change in voice and prayer patterns.
There are some mosques around Houston, drop in ask questions. Friday is the day of sermons.
#9 Wagonburner:
That is toooo good! Go to the head of the class!
If you are Orthodox, you get to stand up until midnight at Vigil, go to a two-hour Liturgy on Sunday, and eat a whole pig after Church!
I like mine standing on the radiator grill.
Every so often it was amateur night. A child would get on the PA and do the call to prayers, or some fellow with a hacking cough or clear his throat somewhere during Allah and Akbar.
People ask how one can tolerate someone yelling on a PA system 5 times a day. One gets used to it, I imagine those living next to a high school stadium get used to it also. When I was growing up the St. John’s Cathedral would break out in bells according to some undiscernable to me pattern. Some of the protestant churches had bells also. After a while you don’t notice it.
We always told the kids to be home when they heard the Maghrib (sunset) prayer.
Shamaal, I grew up less than a hundred yards from 5 busy railroad tracks. We got so used to it that we hardly noticed the trains going by.
Went back there a few years ago, and even with the severe hearing loss, (no doubt related to the trains and front row seats to Bob Seger and Santanna), I found the now occasional train unbearably loud.