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Faith as Sustaining Meaning - Science shows that Jordan Peterson is Right about Faith
“The advantageous effect of religious belief and spirituality on mental and physical health is one of the best-kept secrets in psychiatry, and medicine generally,"
Andrew Sims (past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leeds.)
Some sources (see others in the video) :
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Hill, A. B. (1965). The environment and disease: Association or causation? Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 58, 1217–1219.r
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