THE BENEFITS OF GOING TO CHURCH: As Andrew Exum noted on Twitter this morning, this article makes it sound like taking fish oil, which doesn’t really capture the reasons why most actual people go to church. But these may be terms that the New York Times’ readers can accept. . . .

One of the comments suggests that religion “helps people die without making too much of a fuss.” Maybe that’s why the New York Times, in this era of ObamaCare and Death Panels, is seeming more sympathetic. . . .