Possibly they are so used to believing in the impossible that being wrong doesn’t bother them that much.
Now for a case where being religious hurts your ability to do the right thing, check this out.

Why don’t they do this test on men that beat up women, married or just partners; Same amount of religious men as opposed to non-religious men and see how it turns out. That might create some useful conclusions, on abuse.

Notice they said “suggests” that faith lowers stress. If some believers feel that they are going to be punished by a god for something, how does that lower stress? I’d think that it would heighten stress, in some cases.

Clearly they did not survey pastors during Lent or Advent. Oi! Faith may lower stress, but the increased level of activity more than equals the diminished stress levels.

Does this prove anything really? You can look at the rather vague results from a number of angles. The one popping up in my mind suggests that this can explain why religious people are more willing to take drastic actions without worrying about the consequences. Someone should do a study on the religious zeal of convicts and see if it effects their level of remorse for their crimes.

I blame RNS though it could go higher. But all we hear directly from the scientists (I presume they are scientists) is

“The more religious they were, the less brain activity they showed in response to their own errors,” said University of Toronto assistant psychology professor Michael Inzlicht, lead author of the study. “They are calmer when they make errors.”

and

“The more they believe, the less brain activity we see in response to their own errors,” Inzlicht said. “(Religious people) were much less anxious and stressed when they made an error.”

so the headline could as well have been, e.g. “Religious People Less Concerned About Right and Wrongand it would have been at least as accurate.

I’m not highly stressed about the minor html error I made toward the end of that post. Does that mean I’m religious after all? I don’t think so.

You do seem to get just a teenzy weenzy bit touchy when you sense the tenants of your religion are being threatened

Tom, that claim has never been tested.

You wouldn’t know if it ever had been tested. That would be the equivalent of telling a test subject that you were giving them a placebo in a some drug experiment, thus defeating the purpose.

never saw a poll yet I trust

So Tom you are saying you can tell when I subconsciously feel “the tenants” of my (non)religion are being threatened, but I can’t tell it?
My wife makes comparable claims but we’ve lived together for decades and she’s proven to be right at times. You and I have a short, somewhat spotty and very sporadic relationship so I have to doubt that.
I do get touchy at times when people I’m arguing with make claims they can’t substantiate, especially after they’ve done so ten or so times in the past and been corrected, or maybe if I’m just too tetchy. But no one on here has threatened the tenants of my radical agnosticism.

If you’ve regressed to radical agnosticism then you must be in a state of spiritual atrophy. Glad to see your sense of humor is still intact.

Well functionally I’m an atheist but my atheism could be challenged, as I’ve said a few times here, by a powerful supernatural being who cared enough to try. It would just have to be something I didn’t think a charlatan or a religious organization (I’ll leave it to others to judge if there’s a difference there) or even a scientifically pretty advanced space alien could do.
So I thought I’d try to be rigorous in my response to you.
Cheers.

Enough about you and Me: On to something serious.

nnmns, it is interesting to read an article about churches/religions “courting” someone to join them…thanks for the site. Gee! I wonder who wins him?

Well done, fellow counterpart. Humility certainly becomes him. Guess you can admire Steve Jobs, McCartney and Ringo. They held out until they made names for themselves, rather than sinking to the bottom of the barrel. Live’n'learn