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Another excellent article, Mitchell. Personally, having observed that in general theists tend to make poorer lifestyle choices than atheists (perhaps as a function of IQ), I predict that in a few years the overall physiological health of theists in the USA will be poorer than that of atheists. I went to a great many churches across the USA between 2017 and 2019 (for professional reasons) and rarely saw someone who was not overweight; conversely the modest number of atheists I knew in the USA were uniformly more active, ate healthier foods, and in general made better lifestyle choices. Whereas psychological health is a very difficult thing to measure, chronic ailments are rather more obvious.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

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