U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High

Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by kaonashi on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:06PM (#11551771)

I'll bite.

The dominant non-commercial social organ for most people in their local community is their church. Atheists are by definition cut off from this.

There are exceptions of course, Unitarian churches etc, but I would posit that most atheists don't find a comparable social grouping.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by CaptSpify on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:29PM (#11552981)

Growing up in a mid-sized town, there was a rule about starting your own small business: Join a church.

Once you joined a church (it didn't really matter which one), you gained a lot of social connections that turned into business connections. I don't know if there was any statistical truth to that, but it was definitely accepted in my family's social circle as a rule.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by vinceguidry on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:34PM (#11552012)

The dominant non-commercial social organ for religious people is their church. There are plenty of Christians that don't go to church.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by jackmaney on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:08PM (#11551786)

So...how is this evidence for a social movement towards atheism? Honest question.

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by pm90 on Friday April 22, 2016 @08:17PM (#11553456)

I don't think that is the question being answered by the parent. The question is (imo): why is atheism making people worse off?

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Re:U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High by jackmaney on Monday April 25, 2016 @10:08AM (#11564259)

> why is atheism making people worse off?

Care to put forth any evidence that this might possibly be the case?

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