Queen's study finds religion helps us gain self-control

[MarkCharles]

23. A little fable perpetuated by religions as to what they CLAIM TO...

be, is not, in the LEAST WAY, "common sense", nor anything related to actual "scientific" facts.

I really wish religious minds would try to focus more precisely, to b e able to separate what those thousands of religious fables, fairy tales and half truths have filled their minds, separate them from actual rational thinking.

This "Common sense" you claim, "Of course religion is (at least in part) about self-control" is nothing but what you have learned and CLAIM religion to be about. There is no science, there is the FABLE that "religion is, (at least in part) about self-control".

There is no scientific evidence to prove this, indeed there are literally MILLIONS of incidents where individuals and groups of people who CLAIM to be "religious" have LOST THEIR SELF CONTROL ! Those incidents are as anecdotal as those incidents where people CLAIM that their "religion" has something to do with their self control.

An analytic mind would be able to tell the difference between assertions of causal relationships and actual data that support direct cause/effect phenomena. Religious wishful thinking only serves to clog and fog up the religious believer's mind, and render them incapable of making the critical distinctions between direct evidence of cause/effect relationships, and what MIGHT WELL BE merely statistical patterns, (with any number of possible causes), one way or another.

Religious minds often seem incapable of doing the work of the critical thinking to sort out such issues, and merely rely upon simplistic expressions like "common sense" or "I just believe it's so, and no one can convince me otherwise".