After being in a Calvinist church for
over a
decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a
more broken condition
than which they came, including several
divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.
Surprisingly, the study — which examined suicides and the economy
over more than four
decades — also found an increase in alcohol consumption and
divorce helped reduce suicide rates among the
over-45s.