Vilken tro främjar välbefinnande?

Michael Novak på First Things skriver om missuppfattningen att religiös tro ger välbefinnande:

An odd notion, that there is ”comfort” in faith. Serious believers often don’t find it so.

Actually, it has sometimes seemed to me that the persistence of horrible evils in the world creates no discomfort at all for consistent atheists. …

If it is comfort that you seek, do not go to belief. Stay with those who take malicious pleasure in chance, meaninglessness, and nothingness ”all the way down,” in what Richard Rorty calls ”nihilism with a smiling face.”

And feel superior to those so weak they still need the ”comforts” of belief.