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Survivorship bias. Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing. This leaves those who are either too afraid to confront the cognitive dissonance or who were already happy in the first place.

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> Especially for high-demand religions, answering "no" means admitting the church you make so many sacrifices for does absolutely nothing.

I think there's a chasm or 10 between declining a responsibility and denouncing your faith.

Where do you get the premise of religion being a happier life?

For most faithful, the answer would be 'experience'. People happy in their faith tend to stay. Those who aren't tend to leave eventually.

I never said it was, I'm not sure why you think I did.

Your answer of "survivorship bias" hints that you are assuming the parent's "are you happy" is a yes.

Assuming for argument's sake, that is.

The post title implies religiosity != happiness, the parent implied other results might differ, my comment was a response to that possibility, for the sake of argument as you said.

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