The Positive Effects of Religion on Anxiety and Stress

Felix: Mainstream religion, such as Catholicism, reduces anxiety and stress and depression. It provides people with- I'm going to need a citation on that one, friend. Provides people with identity and terror management and gives people existential meaning and hope. Therefore, religion is actually a humanist psychological tool that bet is humanity. Felix: If you take away religion, the world would still have the same problems. He says it's not necessary for any of the good that can be done without it. "I want to get away from the esoteric aspect and look at the real world aspects of religion as a whole"