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Originally Posted by Ktoyou
After reading the study, I find their conclusion wnating. They did not control for marriage and having children. My guess these are confounding factors, to such a degree, if the study examined a comparison between groups, married with children, and unmarried without children, the variance would be more significant.
The study is dated; it seems likely, new studies have been done, controlling for other factors.
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Atheists tend to be selfish bastards, as we see clearly in many of the posts here. Hence the
tendency of encountering athiests as single non-parents.
You're missing the point regarding the lack of "controls". If you eliminated the married folks from consideration (or separated them), there would be a
stronger bias for suicide among atheists who have no family.
This 2004 study isn't dated at all, and remains quite interesting since there have been no other studies.
How laughable it is to read the bravado of the atheists here. Their overconfidence will not serve them well in the end.
It's quite simple: The typical atheist could care less about God or their fellow man. The rejection of God leaves him with
nothing in the moment of severe mental crisis. Having
nothing, he wants to become
nothing. Persistent doubt now culminates in despairing agony. But there is no God to pull him out. Ignorance was bliss, but now it becomes excruciating pain. Once strong in his freedom, he now finds himself pitifully weak.
In denying God, he denies spirituality. Since he denies his soul and the possibility of spiritual assistance from God, it is quite simply unavailable to him as he contemplates suicide.
There is nothing to lean on, since the atheist denies the Power that established him and sustains him. He's on his own. But the darkness is black. Black. It is cold and terribly lonely.
This is the sickness unto death. But death is not the end. There shall be a reckoning.