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There's a new poll dividing the Internet big time today and I'm dying to know what you guys think about it. A new Pew Research survey has revealed that regular churchgoers, people who go to church every Sunday, regardless of their political ideologies, have far lower rates like observable, far lower rates of diagnosable mental health conditions than those who don't go to church every week. And the divide gets even more prominent. And this is what's sparking all of the controversy today when you start looking at the difference between conservatives and liberals. Turns out the people least likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition are are regular church going conservatives. And the most likely people to be diagnosed with a mental health condition are atheist liberals who never go to church. Interesting.
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Interesting.
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Now there are tons of critics who are already pointing out that this may not be directly tied to religion and this may not be directly tied to political ideology. Okay, okay.
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Come on.
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What? And sure, there may be some validity to the fact that probably regular churchgoing weekly churchgoing conservatives are less likely to seek out professional psychiatrics help. Especially given everything that's happened to the psychiatric industry and going to see a therapist in the last several years. Great book recommendation on that by the way. Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy Changed my life. But I do find it interesting that this mirrors pretty much everything we've known about the past several thousand years of human history when it comes to the societies that are consistently the most stable, flourishing, wealthy, prosperous and healthy throughout the last century several millennia like mind blowing information. I guess that going to church regularly gives people a sense of community purpose, meaning ties you to something bigger than yourself and removes you as the central focal point of your life. Whereas the secular left wing worldview in America today is all about you as the center of your life. Embrace extreme selfishness so that you don't get married and have children because your job matters more. Don't commit to one person in your dating life anymore because your immediate sexual satisfaction with as many people as possible is far meaningful than a long term commitment to another human being or even just something as simple as follow your heart leading you to believe that your feelings are the most important compass. Your feelings are the most important compass guiding every decision you make in your life. Rather than realizing your feelings are probably unstable at times that are not the most reliable foundation to build a prosperous life upon. There's some people with really interesting takes to this data having come out on X now, and I'm dying to know which side you guys may agree with. Christine Botter said this Adults without faith are like children without loving parents adrift. So of course they're more likely to be diagnosed with things like anxiety and depression or substance abuse or any other diagnosable mental health condition. Robby Starbuck says this more evidence that leftism is a mental illness and that faith in God is good for your mental health. This is a nonpartisan Pew Research poll. By the way, he reminds us Interesting. Vittorio tweeted this Is being an atheist liberal what makes you insane? Or is it that the insane people become atheist liberals? Chicken or the egg? Here's an interesting one. A long time ago I had a conversation with a sociology professor who had accidentally found a strong correlation between prayer and health that she was convinced was spurious. But no matter how many variables she threw at it, it never went away. Some findings are stubborn like that, you know. Interestingly, the more people particular scientists have been researching the link between prayer and mental health, or even prayer and better physical health outcomes, the more overwhelming evidence demonstrates that prayer actually does make a difference in our lives. This one I love. Naturally, when you don't believe in God, you replace that void with something else you usually worship of self. My favorite take on this though came from Katie Foss. She says this mental health improves when people live in reality. See very effective therapy I. E. The opposite of affirmative care. But you know, interesting. A biblical worldview and traditional conservatism delivers that it sees the world for what it actually is, including the human potential for both villainy and for glory. It provides an objective structure, limits, risks, responsibilities and meaning, creator and created distinctions. It tells you the truth about who you are. Progressivism often begins by denying those things. And once you reject reality, you have to build a replacement reality out of ideology that's detached from who you really are. Living in a self constructed universe is not great for your mental health. Who knew? I love this take though, because it is so obvious to me why there is such a deep hunger for and resurgence of extremely traditional Christianity right now, led by young, young people, not just in the United States, but across Western civilization at large. For the past, I don't know, several decades in America, certainly throughout my lifetime. What you've seen in our country is a severe detachment from reality. This idea that reality doesn't even exist. Actually, my truth and your truth are fundamentally different things that can change on a whim, dependent upon whatever our feelings tell us happens to be true in that particular moment. It's what led us to believe that there are such thing as like 37 genders at a time. That's crazy. And duped us into believing so many of the political cris crises and hoaxes that have been so mainstreamed throughout the last several years of political history. Stuff like the earth is definitely going to collapse because of climate change in 12 years. How dare you. One of the biggest lies that we've bought into is the fact that our children, our babies, aren't even babies at all. They're just clumps of cells. So it's easy for us to end their lives out of convenience for ourselves. Abortion happens way too fast. And right now, as we speak across the country, women are being pushed into ending the lives of their children. In moments of fear and confusion, they're told, you have got decide right now. As if love, hope or motherhood can even be rushed in the first place. Many of them feel completely trapped and like there's no real hope at all. But because of people like you, there is. 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That's terrible, obviously, but there's so much hope at the end of that tunnel because we have gone so crazy, so off the rails, so detached from reality that it is now young people, it's Gen Z who are starving for a sense of purpose and meaning and a connection to something bigger than ourselves. It is out of that darkness that we have seen the single largest Christian revival in modern history. Gen Z today is more likely to be attending church every Sunday than our grandparents are. There's been a 22% increase in the last year in Bible sales in our country, an almost 80% increase in religious app downloads for prayer apps like hallow, and a 50% increase in Christian music streams from Spotify. In the United Kingdom, where religion has just been complete gutted by secularism, down to replacing the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Church of England with an insane woke woman. The number of 18 to 24 year olds in the UK who believe in God has tripled in just the last three years since 2019. Gen Z men in America alone have seen a 15% increase in their commitment to Jesus in our country. In February of 2024, Pew Research found that only 18% of U.S. adults even believed that religion was gaining influence in American, which was the lowest figure that they had observed in more than two decades, but literally within 12 months. The next year, in February of 2025, the same survey found that 31% of U.S. adults found religion was gaining influence in American life, the highest figure that they had seen in 15 years. Never underestimate how quickly the Holy Spirit can move through society. And it is so obvious to me that he is working through the souls of the west right now out of necessity. But it's incredible to behold and it's not this wishy washy half half out cultural Christianity, rainbow washed or blm washed Christianity. It is a deep reverence for a traditional faith, for sacred tradition that's outlasted every chapter of human history for the last 2,000 years, found mostly in Catholicism and orthodoxy, which has some scholars scratching their heads because if this trajectory continues, America is paced to have more Catholics than even Protestants within the next several decades. Young people have been starving for a sense of purpose, for a sense of meaning, and for a connection to something larger than ourselves that doesn't change based upon someone's subjective truth or subjective morality. And when we connect with God and we find that sense of identity and purpose in who we truly are created in his divine image, turns out we don't struggle so much with things like anxiety or depression or transgenderism, gender dysphoria, substance abuse, suicidation or any other diagnosable mental health condition. We believe in the hard truths over here. And maybe this is an opportunity for America to reconnect with an insanely important hard truth. Our ultimate purpose, our ultimate identity, our ultimate meaning as humanity only comes from God, we can try to replace it with anything else under the sun. Our political affiliation, our identity to a certain racial or ethnic group, our gender labels we put upon ourselves, our sexual orientation or anything else. But humanity flourishes when we remind ourselves that we are created in the divine image of God. And when we root our countries and our societies in our identity as one nation under God. Looks like America and the west at large is grappling with this in real time, but certainly is sprinting in the right direction but dying to know what you guys think. Anecdotally, are Christian conservatives a little more mentally stable than atheist liberals? Let us know in the comments.
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