A study is claiming that longer life expectancy is causing people to put off turning to religion because when life expectancies are high “time isn’t running out as fast on people’s chances to secure a place in heaven.”
The study claims many religions and societies think a certain fixed amount of effort is required to buy a ticket to heaven, and since there is now more time available to collect the required celestial pixie points you can start later.
Putting it more elegantly, Elissaios Papyrakis, an economist at the University of East Anglia says “We show that higher life expectancy discounts expected benefits in the afterlife and is therefore likely to lead to postponement of religiosity, without necessarily jeopardizing benefits in the afterlife.”
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Canada.com