The Door blog has made a connection between two news stories that is just genius.

First, it would seems that religious people are in denial about how fat they are.

In a Cornell University study, highly religious people were the least likely to think of themselves as fat. In fact, they often thought they were thinner than they actually were.

Obesity

Researcher Karen Kim speculates that religion “encourages self-worth beyond the body” and protects people from the ideal body imagery that pervades
popular culture.

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The study looked at more than 3,000 men and women in six categories — conservative Protestant, mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish, other religions and no religion.

Participants were asked whether they were very or somewhat overweight, very or somewhat underweight or about right. The accuracy of their perceptions was measured against medical standards. (Source)

In the second story, it is noted that trust in organized religion is at an all time low.

Americans trust the military and the police force significantly more than the church and organized religion, a new Gallup Poll says.

Only 46 percent of respondents said they had either a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the church, compared with 69 percent who said they trusted the military and 54 percent who trust police officers.

The figures are among the lowest for institutionalized religion in the three and a half decades that Gallup has conducted the poll. Peaking at 68 percent in May 1975, the numbers bottomed out at 45 percent in June of 2003. (Source)

So, connecting the dots. If we are not coming across as credible as it relates to our weight, how can we credible when it comes to matters of eternity?