Patrick Glynn summarizes recent psychological and medical research that seems to show that believers are much happier and healthier than non-believers. He claims that this refutes Freud's idea that religion is a neurosis (mental sickness) and that it gives some indirect evidence for the existence of God.These findings should interest pragmatists, who say that we should, on important issues that we can't decide intellectually, follow whatever belief has better life consequences. According to Glynn, belief in God has much better life consequences than non-belief.
This exercise deals with Chapters 2 (on "Psyche and Soul: Postsecularism in Psychology") and 3 (on "Faith and the Physicians") of Glynn's God: The Evidence. These computerized exercise materials are copyrighted (c) 2002 by Harry J. Gensler; but they may be distributed freely.