BOZ, UNKEwlj, MrV, REDietz

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People that believe in God are more likely to survive and reproduce than those who don't. So in certain respects disbelief in God can be considered a form of mental illness.
[spoilers]even though it's true. It is not necessarily beneficial to an organism, to have too accurate a view of reality.[/spoilers]

(what's the syntax for spoiler tags on here? i've tried [spoiler] and [spoilers] and neither work?)

Another interesting statistic is this pattern.
An individual should follow these steps in order.
Education, Work (Career), Marriage (No Pre-Marital Sex), Family.
With this formula or model it has over a 75% long term success rate.
If an individual breaks outside the pattern or steps the success rate drops down below 25%.
Needless to say this formula is Biblical.
If individuals don't want to believe in God, that's fine but numbers never lie.
When people say they do not believe in God I always think about the line from: The Count of Monte Cristo.
"I don't believe in God." .... "It doesn't matter, HE believes in you!"

It should be noted that I in no way followed these steps or rules but if I seen the statistics presented, I may have followed them better.
I learned this information, too late in life and once you get trapped into materialism (greed) and ego it isn't easy to get out.
We, as individuals, literally get brainwashed at an early age and it is very difficult to be reprogramed.

I guess if you were going to watch a movie and correlate some of this you could say It's a Wonderful Life and Click show this example of Family First.
As goofy as Click is as a movie, I have to admit that it makes a serious point about putting others needs in front of your own.
Oddly enough Adam Sandler follows up that message, 6 years later, with his movie, That's My Boy, which goes in the complete and opposite direction.
Even I found that movie too offensive.