How religion does affect mental health?

Religion gives people something to believe in, provides a sense of structure and typically offers a group of people to connect with over similar beliefs. These facets can have a large positive impact on mental health—research suggests that religiosity reduces suicide rates, alcoholism and drug use.

What happens when you lose your religion?

Those participants who exited their religion were more likely to start out scoring lower on emotional stability, to be less trusting of others, and they tended to place less value on conformity, tradition and benevolence, and more value on self-direction, hedonism and the pursuit of power.

What happens if you lose your faith?

But even the strongest faith can be a fragile thing. If our belief system comes under attack, our core identity can be annihilated. Either way, the experience of losing our faith is likely to be extremely difficult, leading to depression, loneliness or anger.

Will religion ever go away?

For all of these reasons – psychological, neurological, historical, cultural and logistical – experts guess that religion will probably never go away. Religion, whether it’s maintained through fear or love, is highly successful at perpetuating itself.

Can religion be replaced by atheism?

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It’s the absence of religion, and that’s a wonderful thing.

Why do Americans still believe in God even without religion?

This biological sticking point probably explains the fact that, although 20\% of Americans are not affiliated with a church, 68\% of them say that they still believe in God and 37\% describe themselves as spiritual. Even without organised religion, they believe that some greater being or life force guides the world.