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, is a good book to read and a good book to discuss — and I hope you find a way to read it in a group or at least with a friend. You may have heard this, but there are lots of studies today that measure the happiest places on earth (Denmark is #1) and that the correlation of wealth and happiness is not what many think it might be. And there is a correlation of happiness and one’s 
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- Interpreting the Synoptic Gospels
- Introducing NT Interpretation
- Jesus and His Death
- Jesus in Memory (ed.)
- New Vision for Israel
- Synoptics: Biblio
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- Who Do They Say I Am?
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- Interview on Emerging
- Interview with LL Barkat
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- John Bunyan
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- Lake Emerging
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- Missional Matrix
- Nativity Story
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posted January 30, 2009 at 1:00 am
The right wing American religious spin can’t contain itself :^)
I do like your blog but hope you won’t fall back on sophomoric stuff that tries to show that people that disagree with you aren’t as happy as you are. In real life people go through seasons of unhappiness and happiness, and most people with less of an ax to grind recognize that those seasons don’t tend to support political or religious ideologies.
Wish you would back off the propaganda and get back to helping us all consider how we can move ahead.
posted January 30, 2009 at 2:42 am
Gosh, Tom, you don’t sound very happy.
posted January 30, 2009 at 9:14 am
Am I missing something here Tom. Did you not notice that Conservatives are the lowest in 2 categories? Religious is an awfully broad category and I believe your own biases might be equating religious with right wing evangelical. Did you notice how Denmark was the happiest place (neither a very religious nor right wing place)? Maybe you’ve read the book and have some inside info?
posted January 30, 2009 at 10:14 pm
No, at this point I’m not very happy, Chris.
What does that have to do with the relevance of our comments?
posted January 31, 2009 at 12:25 am
Tom, I guess your post just didn’t make any sense. Scot is a committed Christian and so of course he’s going to, from time to time, say things that are complimentary to Jesus’ side. Telling him to knock it off is like telling Obama to stop being a Democrat. It’s what he is. Plus mountains of studies over decades have borne out what this chart shows; committed religious people are happier/less unhappy than the populace in general.