Think you're missing the point. Read the post I'm responding to. Depression and religion are probably infinitely more linked than not going to church and inventing the cure for a major disease.

Not going to church isn't going to turn you into the next Louis Pasteur, it's probably also not going to be the root cause of a major depression in your life.

You're going way off the deep end in your post assuming I'd try to treat a medical disease with spirituality...*whoosh*. Totally missing my point. There's "religious" and then there's, "I don't take medicine because God will heal me" (aka delusional or at the least schitzotypal). For myself and most of the people I know, attending a Church event has more in common with a yoga class than a history lesson and you guys seem to be caught up on the religious literalists.