Ten extra years of life expectancy correlated to an 8.4 percent drop in people's likelihood to call themselves religious.Whether or not there are atheists in foxholes, there should be more and more at retirement villages and nursing homes, eh?
Similarly, an increase of 10 years of life expectancy was linked to a decrease in religious service attendance of between 15 percent to 17 percent. These numbers held true even after controlling for income, past communism (which tends to decrease religiosity), prevalence of Catholicism and Islam in the country, and variations on religious beliefs about God, heaven and hell.
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April 17, 2011
Old? I won't be seeing you in church
Not that I would have been there anyway, but, increased longevity is statistically associated with lower church attendance.
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