Chaeyoon Lim has published an article in the American Psychological Review that… "substantiates that it is not really going to church and listening to sermons or praying that makes people happier, but making church-based friends and building intimate social networks there.”
So all that stuff about God, that’s just window dressing?
“Our study offers compelling evidence that it is the social aspects of religion, rather than theology or spirituality, that leads to life satisfaction,”
"In particular, we find that friendships built in religious congregation are the secret ingredient in religion that makes people happier.”
This looks like a conclusion looking for research to support it. But has Chaeyoon really gone out on a Lim?
In a front page story from the Wednesday Union Leader the group AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region has run into trouble.
In an amusing week for Carol Shea-Porter, in which she almost sounded McCarthyesque in her suspicions of Chinese communist cash infiltrations into the campaigns of domestic candidates, how long can it be before she blames her 2010 election loss on Global Warming?