ATTEND CHURCH SERVICE REGULARLY AND EXTEND YOUR YEARS ON EARTH BY 7 YEARS! – Scientists say

ATTEND CHURCH

SERVICE REGULARLY

AND EXTEND YOUR

YEARS ON EARTH

BY 7 YEARS!

 – Scientists say

Scientists have found that those who attend church services have reduced cases of high blood pressure. In a study carried in the United States and Norway, there is scientific evidence that attending church services lowers blood pressure of participants.

The Norwegian research by scientists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) had 120,000 participants, 4% of which were Church goers. The Church goers are found to have significant reduction in their blood pressure. Also in the U.S., previous studies in about 40% of Americans that attend church services showed a striking link between church attendance and reduced blood pressure. 

The more often you go church the lower it the blood pressure becomes.

Torgeir Sorensen, from the School of Theology and Religious Psychology Centre at Sykehuset Innlandet said: ‘We found that the more often the participants went to church the lower their blood pressure.

Dr, Harold G. Koenig, one of the authors of the Norwegian research told The Christian Post that this study is only collaborating other researches that show this trend. “About two-thirds of the research, now over 60 quantitative studies, report that those who are more religiously active have significant lower blood pressure,” said Koienig.

The researches linked the trend to what Christians do during the Church service. Like Koieng said, “If going to church leads you to deeper relationship with God, as a result a deeper sense of peace and a more loving relationship with your neighbour, then it could indeed affect blood pressure.”

Professor Jostein Holman, a member of the Norwegian research team and a professor of Medicine said the founding was so encouraging that he called for studies to be done on this. According to Holman, “The fact that churchgoers have lower blood pressure encourages us to continue to study this issue. We’re just in the start-up phase of an exciting research area in Norway.”

On  the same subject, researchers at Duke University in North Carolina, the U.S. found that regular churchgoers who also prayed daily or study the bible daily were 40% less likely to have high blood pressure than those who did not attend. The result came after a six year study on 2,391 persons. In the words of David Larson, a member of the team from US National Institute for Healthcare research, “It shows church attendance is better for your health. If they relied on TV or radio it isn’t beneficial.”

Similar studies gave further benefits of regular church attendance. Michael McCullough of the National Institute for Healthcare Research and his team said you are 29% more likely to live longer if you are a regular churchgoer. This is the result of their studies carried on about 126,000 people on effect of lifespan on regular church attendance. In a separate study in the University of Texas, scientists found that life expectancy rose when the number of Church attendance increases. Their finding is more intriguing:

·        Those who attend service once every week had life expectancy of 82 years

·        Those who attend service less than once a week had life expectancy of 79 years

·        While none-attendees had life expectancy drop to of 75 years

Beside health benefits, church attendance have also been proven by Scientist as helping youths and teenagers get into less trouble. Teens who attend church services at least once a week get less legal and other trouble than other adolescence. This is the finding of researchers from the National Study of Youth and Religion by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

HOW OBAMA INSULTED THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

In a National Prayer Breakfast organised for Christians of diverse denominations in US on the burning issues of terrorism by Muslim fundamentalists, President Obama in his speech deliberately likened the present day terrorism in the world to the illicit activities of some Christians some centuries ago. By erecting this dubious moral equivalency of activities by some Christian slave merchants to brutal murder by Devilish blood-thirsty Islamic terrorists is nothing less an insult to the  thousands of Christian believers in attendance in the meeting among whom were Fundamentalists, evangelicals, Protestants, Catholics, and so on.

“Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” Obama said. “In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

OBAMA:  We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith.  Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it.  Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history.  And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.  In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

Obama was advertently saying that it is hypocritical for Westerners to scold the Muslim world for incubating a violent strain of Islam that has become one of the predominant threats to international security, reminding his teaming audience that “Islam is merely following a dark path forged centuries ago by Christians.”  He also made perfidy effort to establish his oft-repeated claim that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – a cruel/brutal faction of al Qaeda) and its cadre of supporters are unrepresentative of their Muslim faith.

It is easy to see the contradiction inherent in this assertion. The president and many of his allies on the left, frequently trip over themselves to emphasize that ISIS’s acts of brutality are not archetypical Islamic behavior. The insurgency’s most recent atrocity is the immolation of a captured Jordanian pilot.

Obama  suggestion that Christianity was also a violent, expansionist religion a mere 800 years ago is a contradiction. Why make this comparison if ISIS is not representative of Islam? Isn’t the concession in this claim that those who commit acts of violence in the name of their religion, regardless of whether those acts are supported by a majority of coreligionists, that they are representative of their faith? Therefore, by perfunctorily nodding in the direction of a moral equivalency between Christian and Islamic violence, isn’t the president invalidating his own claim that ISIS, Boko Haram, Ansar al-Sharia, al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiah, Abu Sayyaf, and a host of other fundamentalist Islamic terror groups are agents of a violent strain of the Islamic faith?

Obama is simply a tired liberal shibboleth.  This strain of violent militancy is evidently a prevalent tradition of propagandist among Muslims today. And to compare their cruel and barbaric activities in this computer-age century with the terrors of many thousand years ago is nothing less than an insult to the Christian faith.

I don't know of a single Christian leader or sect today who takes the past and uses it as an excuse to perpetrate violence today.  I find a great disconnect between today’s Christianity and Obama’s “High horse”. And not just that, why would that be among the top of the things on Obama’s mind on a day of Breakfast Prayer?  What is this business about "lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place"?  High horse?  Isn’t it Obama himself that is riding on a misleading “High Horse”? 

There is enough evidence that Obama is a promoter of Islam. For example he is actively working with Hamas, as he is working with Iran. Hamas has pledged to annihilate the Jewish state.  Obama has also actively backed the Muslim Brotherhood, an umbrella group for virtually every Al-Qaeda related terrorist group out there.  To minimize the horrors of present day Islamic extremists and try to excuse them by saying, "Hey, it's nothing new! You Christians did the same thing...a thousand years ago."  That's bizarre, folks and shallow moral relativism.