{"id":42657,"date":"2017-06-07T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42657"},"modified":"2017-06-07T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T14:05:46","slug":"going-religious-services-boost-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/going-religious-services-boost-health.html","title":{"rendered":"“Could going to religious services boost your health?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A Latter-day Saint chapel in Hyderabad, India \u00a0\u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I look in, fairly often, on two virulently anti-Mormon, predominantly apostate, and overwhelmingly atheistic message boards.<\/p>\n

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On one of them, every Sunday without fail, there\u2019s at least one thread devoted to the glorious things that they\u2019re doing instead of attending services at \u201cTSCC\u201d (\u201cthe so-called Church\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Typically, these alternative activities seem to run along the lines of, for instance, strolling along a Tahitian beach, amusing themselves\u00a0with 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.<\/p>\n

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In actuality, though, what they\u2019re indisputably doing is sitting isolated in front of a computer screen throughout much of Sunday, vying with one another in sneering\u00a0about how silly Mormons<\/a> are, how stupid and irritating their Mormon families are, how idiotic and gullible their Mormon spouses are, and so forth.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a little piece<\/a> about the benefits apparently to be derived from regularly attending worship\u00a0services:<\/p>\n

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Could going to religious services boost your health?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n