I was surprised to find this article at liberalvision CTV‘s web site this morning inasmuch as it wasn’t another attack on Christianity, but rather something positive. This marks the first positive article I’ve seen in approximately 400 years.
CTV Headline: “Religious teens half as likely to use marijuana”.
Of course paradoxically, seeing as it reduces pot-smoking amongst our kids, liberals will see this as another plus in their war against…. Christianity.
At the CBC.ca site, the closest I came to finding the article was this other article (see right) referring to the Lord, but I think it was about something else.
So no, I couldn’t find anything like the article in question at our government’s mammoth CBC news division, I think because (a) it would be seen as somehow “blasphemous” against socialism, which they rely on, and (b) of course as “pro-Christian” (which is automatically, inherently, “bad”), also (c) as possibly “neo-con” propaganda, and besides, (d) since the CBC is state-owned and state-run and a branch of the state, a clear violation of the left’s made-up “separation of church and state” manifesto (and not at all what they had in mind for their “early learning” —wink! program). Possibly also (e) because the liberal-left are in favor of making pot-smoking perfectly legal so our kids can smoke the ganja in the streets as they see fit —a policy they apparently think will help attract the best and brightest to this country, and which will help nurture solid youth and citizenry for our nation’s future, and of course their way of supporting their style of “families” in Canada (in which they all fall apart so the state can take over from family as we knew it and tend to their needs).
So as you can see, this news isn’t good for their agenda on so many levels. And therefore they don’t report it. The less you know…
Religious teens half as likely to use marijuana
Updated Sat. Oct. 18 2008 7:54 AM ET
CTV.ca News StaffParents who want to keep their kids off drugs may want to start taking them to church.
Religious teens are considerably less likely to use marijuana and are less susceptible to peer pressure to smoke and drink, according to a new study.
Researchers from Brigham Young University studied nearly 20,000 teenagers and found the ones that frequently attended church and rated religion as highly important to them were half as likely to smoke marijuana.
“Some may think this is an obvious finding, but research and expert opinion on this issue have not been consistent,” study author and BYU sociology professor Stephen Bahr said in a statement. “After we accounted for family and peer characteristics, and regardless of denomination, there was an independent effect that those who were religious were less likely to do drugs, even when their friends were users.”
The findings also showed peer pressure was not as effective against the teens who attended church and rated religion as highly important in their lives.
The study is published recently in the Journal of Drug Issues. …
In the original article it was also reported:
“Parents shouldn’t force it, but they can encourage spirituality and religion in their families, which in itself becomes a positive influence in their children’s lives,” Hoffmann said.
So you see, the state-owned CBC could never print that material.
If all you looked at or listened to was CBC news, you wouldn’t know about this study. This is by design.
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