“Could going to religious services boost your health?”

“Could going to religious services boost your health?”

 

An LDS meetinghouse in India
A Latter-day Saint chapel in Hyderabad, India   (LDS Media Library)

 

I look in, fairly often, on two virulently anti-Mormon, predominantly apostate, and overwhelmingly atheistic message boards.

 

On one of them, every Sunday without fail, there’s at least one thread devoted to the glorious things that they’re doing instead of attending services at “TSCC” (“the so-called Church”).

 

Typically, these alternative activities seem to run along the lines of, for instance, strolling along a Tahitian beach, amusing themselves with a bevy of Playboy playmates, preparing to participate in a triathlon, climbing one or more peaks in the Swiss Alps, or putting the finishing touches on a revolutionary theory of quantum relativity.

 

In actuality, though, what they’re indisputably doing is sitting isolated in front of a computer screen throughout much of Sunday, vying with one another in sneering about how silly Mormons are, how stupid and irritating their Mormon families are, how idiotic and gullible their Mormon spouses are, and so forth.

 

Here’s a little piece about the benefits apparently to be derived from regularly attending worship services:

 

Could going to religious services boost your health?

 

Posted from Richmond, Virginia

 

 


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