> Churches can be devastating to ones mental health. Do not recommend. No issue with your first clause: indeed, churches can be devastating to one's mental hea

> Churches can be devastating to ones mental health. Do not recommend. No issue with your first clause: indeed, churches can be devastating to one's mental health (as can ~anything). That observation does not support your second clause. Religiosity is generally associated with lower mental health problems [0]. Correlation is not causation, of course; difficult to do a prospective study in this field. [0] E.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462234/