Thank you for posting the source of that survey.
I would expect that a survey done within a conservative religious organization at those levels would yield the conclusions posted.
Query any married couple who have followed a conservative religious path since childhood, and then query couples with more mainstream religious observance, and those results will be gleaned.
It is possible that the results have nothing to do with living together before or after marriage, as presupposed by the non-mathematically oriented Roman Catholic Diocese. The results may represent legitimate differences in either perception of happiness or of reporting of happiness by religously conservative couples as compared with more religiously mainstream or liberal couples. That in and of itself is fascinating.
Now let's go down to the next level.
It has been said that happiness is a combination of the health of the spirit, mind, and body.
Do people who are religiously conservative necessarily have a deeper, richer, more fulfilling spiritual existence? Or, in Hebrew, a sense of Kiddusha?
Nope.
Thusly, at best, the survey measured differences between the PERCEPTIONS OF or the REPORTING OF religiously conservative people compared with the rest of the population.
Now, then, who would have expected any different results?
Jeff
I would expect that a survey done within a conservative religious organization at those levels would yield the conclusions posted.
Query any married couple who have followed a conservative religious path since childhood, and then query couples with more mainstream religious observance, and those results will be gleaned.
It is possible that the results have nothing to do with living together before or after marriage, as presupposed by the non-mathematically oriented Roman Catholic Diocese. The results may represent legitimate differences in either perception of happiness or of reporting of happiness by religously conservative couples as compared with more religiously mainstream or liberal couples. That in and of itself is fascinating.
Now let's go down to the next level.
It has been said that happiness is a combination of the health of the spirit, mind, and body.
Do people who are religiously conservative necessarily have a deeper, richer, more fulfilling spiritual existence? Or, in Hebrew, a sense of Kiddusha?
Nope.
Thusly, at best, the survey measured differences between the PERCEPTIONS OF or the REPORTING OF religiously conservative people compared with the rest of the population.
Now, then, who would have expected any different results?
Jeff
