"Only the collective ability to understand and act as a whole will save
the planet and our species from our own eventual extinction."
That's my response to below ...
Context - From this marketing for Psychological Medicine study masquerading as an AP news story ...
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2013/09/religious-believers-more-depressed-than-atheists-study.html
"The study, published in the October issue of Psychological Medicine
but online now, followed more than 8,000 people in rural and urban
areas in seven countries for one year. During the research, they were
each examined at six- and 12-month intervals.
In those time
frames, 10.3 per cent of religious participants became depressed,
compared with 7.0 per cent for atheists and 10.5 per cent for those with
a "spiritual understanding of life," the study found.
"
I tend to think regardless of what they may believe happens after death -
people are discovering that their beliefs won't really help them in
this life - or future generations for that matter. I think what we're
ultimately seeing is a very human and emotional reaction to the looming
economic and ecological disaster global warming will bring; and it's
slowly but surely being felt in peoples' lives.
And, the realization that their belief system doesn't provide any real answer for it.
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