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> It stands to reason that someone who is a part of a strong religious community would have a much better social life, support structure, and network.

Remove "religious" from this sentence and it is still true. Now the question remains whether a religious community is better than other communities. I doubt it, because religion usually comes with a lot of extra baggage and can become outright dangerous.

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It can be better because it exists even if it's worse than some ideal but mostly non-existent community.