I wasn’t claiming that happiness is or should be incompatible with religious belief or observance. Only that “religious people are happier” wouldn’t be very strong evidence that religion is beneficial by any other metric, and “religious people are unhappier” wouldn’t be very strong evidence that it’s harmful by any other metric.
I wasn’t claiming that happiness is or should be incompatible with religious belief or observance. Only that “religious people are happier” wouldn’t be very strong evidence that religion is beneficial by any other metric, and “religious people are unhappier” wouldn’t be very strong evidence that it’s harmful by any other metric.