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Sir: The carefully constructed study by Kaplan et al.¹ is a major contribution to the literature on stress resilience. The authors concluded that "Religiousness combined with common ideological convictions and social cohesion was associated with substantial resilience as compared to a secular metropolitan urban population."^1(p1146) Kaplan et al. should also be lauded for emphasizing the limitations of this study.’ ‹’ ‹