Christians are Happier
Many recent studies have evaluated whether Christians are happier than their secular neighbors, and compare the proportion of Christians who are happy with other religious groups. The question as to what makes people happier has been a question pondered by philosophers throughout time. Philosophers from Aristotle to Jacques Rousseau and Bertrand Russel have considered happiness to be one of the principal goals of human existence. What makes one person happy may not work for other individuals. Happiness, after all, relates to emotion and often not defined by empirical data but rather by changing feelings. Happiness is generally thought to represent… Read More »