Church Attendance

[Guest guest]

Biever (biever@...) on an interfaith list I am on pulled

this from the EWTN web site news section:

Regular Church Attendance Good For Your Health - According to the

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, Duke University

researchers have found that people 60 or over who faithfully participated

in religious activities were 40 percent less likely to have high blood

pressure.

The study group of 4,000 North Carolinians who attend church weekly

and

read the Bible or pray regularly had lower diastolic pressure than those

who are less religious. This study was taken between 1986 and 1994.

Several studies have shown that religious people are less depressed, have

healthier immune systems and deal better with addictions.

Peace,

Penny

[Guest guest]

I think that only applies if the people at church like you. I honestly

don't think " religious " people are better off, I think it " spiritual "

people.

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Sucess is not relative to others. It is a feeling of love and

accomplishment for yourself.

[Guest guest]

,

I agree with you about " spiritual " people being better off. But if you take

a survey of those who do attend church you are most likely to find a large

number of those to be " spiritual " . I've seen too many non-spiritual,

bitter, angry, etc., folks attending church on a regular basis with

seemingly no spiritual response toward God, their own situations, or others.

I think if there was some way to further delineate the survey to include

some defining was to separate the " spiritual " from those who are not

spiritual but are attending church, that the figures would be different.

I'm spiritual, I am also a retired minister, but I'm not in church every

time the doors are opened. Sometimes I even skip a Sunday or two, or three,

or four. My allegiance is to God first, family and others second, and the

church third. Therefore if there is a conflict between the last and the

former, the former will always win out.

Ray

Fwd: Church Attendance

I think that only applies if the people at church like you. I honestly

don't think " religious " people are better off, I think it " spiritual "

people.

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Sucess is not relative to others. It is a feeling of love and

accomplishment for yourself.