Religion and PMA
PMA is very closely related to faith. Religion plays an important role in the PMA of some people, since attending various religious services provides a community-like feeling for social support. Having like-minded people to give support is shown to provide health benefits.
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Famous quotes containing the words religion and and/or religion:
“By 1879, seven churches of various denominations were holding services, which led the local Chronicle to comment, “All have but one religion and one God in common; it is the Crucified Carbonate.””
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)