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But this certainly is interesting:<\/p>\n<p>A study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were more likely to develop a &#8220;mental disorder,&#8221; &#8220;be dependent on drugs&#8221; and &#8220;have abnormal eating attitudes,\u201d like bulimia and anorexia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who have spiritual beliefs outside of the context of any organized religion are more likely to suffer from these maladies,\u201d said Michael King, a professor at University College London and the head researcher on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story at CNN <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/09\/the-spiritual-but-not-religious-likely-to-face-mental-health-issues-drug-use-study-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short, King writes, \u201cPeople who have a spiritual understanding of life in the absence of a religious framework are vulnerable to mental disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[357],"tags":[2421,777,2422,2420],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demographics-and-sociology","tag-british-journal-of-psychiatry","tag-cnn","tag-health","tag-spiritual-but-not-religious-sbnr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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