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How Christianity Can Solve America's Loneliness Problem

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Religion is good for you: emotionally, physically, and economically. Who knew? Not the secularists.

In 2000, Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam published his groundbreaking book, "Bowling Alone." Putnam argued that Americans' reduced interest in civic engagement — by which he meant not only things of a political nature but also things like the PTA, Boy Scouts, groups like the Elks, and, yes, bowling leagues — had reduced the store of what is called "social capital."

"Social capital" is what sociologists call "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively."

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/religion-and-inequality-what-secularists-miss-179696/#uPK3G6VuPoYUQ4qT.99

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