MSN Finds that Middle Aged People Are Dying From Missing Church

Edit: dropping out of regular church attendance like Holy Steve did has left a lot of middle aged people out of the public eye, and lack of communion has left them rudderless. There’s less room for accountability and more room for deep acedia and despair to set in.

Of course, if all we had was the Novus Ordo, that would be pretty depressing. Who wants to get up on Sunday morning to attend an off the cuff production with crappy music by sexual predators like Marty Haugen with a creepy Pachamana  idol looking at you from the sanctuary? 

[Market Watch] So-called deaths of despair such as from suicide or alcohol abuse have been skyrocketing for middle-aged white Americans.

It’s been blamed on various phenomenon, including opioid abuse. But a new research paper finds a different culprit — declining religious practice.

The working paper, from Tyler Giles of Wellesley College, Daniel Hungerman of the University of Notre Dame, and Tamar Oostrom of The Ohio State University, looked at the relationship between religiosity and mortality from deaths of despair. The paper was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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