But what good is better health if you can mock the infirm?
A recently published Brigham Young University study that examined the possible link between religiosity and better psychosocial health found that compassion was the active ingredient in the relationship.
Patrick Steffen, lead author of the study and assistant professor of clinical psychology at BYU, said that religious people had the best health in his study, but that when he and his colleagues controlled for compassion, the religion-health relationship vanished.
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