If atheists are sad and lonely, why don't you ever hear about an atheist group suicide?

Question

You know, like the ones at Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, etc...

Answer 1

cause they have a brain as well as being sad and lonely, duh?

Answer 2

certain, it does. i imagine the perfect words to precise this are as follows: "At this aspect i do no longer supress a sigh. There are days at the same time as i'm bothered with a feeling blacker than the blackest melancholy--contempt of guy. And to leave little question with regards to what I despise, whom I despise: it truly is the guy of as we talk, the guy with whom i'm fatefully contemporaneous... Our time is well-known with better perfect... all of us is well-known with this, and yet each thing maintains as in the previous. the position has the perfect feeling of decency and self-recognize lengthy gone at the same time as even our statesmen, an otherwise fairly unembharrassed form of guy, anti-Christians by and through of their deeds, nevertheless call themselves Christians as we talk and attend communion?" -Nietzsche, from The Antichrist, #38 it truly is gloomy, yet i do not imagine they're insane. I unquestionably were a christian for 2 a lengthy time period of my existence and until eventually a three hundred and sixty 5 days in the past became an atheist, and that i comprehend their perspective, no longer insane, in simple terms, nicely, allow's be elementary, they're bothered, accursed, like Nietzsche says, by technique of their own minds. Thank God *JK!*, fortunately, human beings like us, like Socrates, continuously proceed to ask questions.

Answer 3

You guys are obviously missing out.

To be honest, there are Buddhist's, Falun Gong practitioners who have done the same thing, although usually as a form of protest.

You mean non-religious atheists? Do you guys 'cluster' like us Christians? Aren't you 'lone-wolf' types? So you don't have the opportunity.

Answer 4

We are? how did you know the bible magically gave that away? I should start throwing those things in a burning house just for people like you to rush in and try to save them. I told you Christians are stupid and he and others are absolute living proof but they try and try to refute but can't so they continue to march on with their ignorance. Why not set the example by killing yourself and actually do it only for the atheist to not follow your lead... Oops cat's out of the bag now lol.

Answer 5

All I can hear in my head is that Just A Gigolo song that David Lee Roth did years ago....

I'm so sad and looooonely
sad and lonely sad and lonely
won't some sweet mama
come and take a chance with me
cause I ain't so bad

lol!

Answer 6

Well, when we have our group meeting here we just pass around a box of Kleenex, some Ben & Jerry's, and have a good cry. That usually takes care of things...until the next meeting, anyway.

Answer 7

Generally when a person commits suicide , the news papers don't list if they were an atheist.

Answer 8

Oh, we have a team that does nothing but cover up such things. That's why there are no atheist charities. We use all the offerings from our secret meetings for hush money.

Answer 9

Maybe we're not brave enough to actually go through with our group suicides?

You know, we're also too chicken to visit places like foxholes.

Answer 10

Great Question.

Maybe the theory that Atheists are lonely and sad is a myth, maybe it all is.

Hmmmmmm

Answer 11

Neither do disciples of Christ commit suicide...

Maybe believers and atheists are more alike than we would like to admit.