Atheism Doen't Equal Depression

[Athene]

That's quite a claim to make, that most of the atheists that come here are currently depressed. I don't see how you could possibly make statement that with any degree certainty. How did you come to that conclusion? I have seen exactly two posts on this forum expressing thoughts of suicide, although I'm sure there are some that I haven't read. What's the total number of users on this forum? Of all of the users, how many are atheists? How many atheists have made a post contemplating suicide? Statistically is that number higher than the general population? You seem to have a great deal of knowledge regarding this matter and I am genuinely interested in seeing your research.

First of all because I've been here for five years instead of the month you've been here. I've seen many of the atheist here complain about their depression over the years and I do mean many, now whether they have a genetic tendency toward depression or not I do not know, most did not say. There have been others who have come here over my five years who have talked about suicide, all atheist. If my memory serves me right on this, there are some here who have said they had either tried or gave serious consideration to suicide, I will not mention who, not my place. I did say most and that was a mistake I should have said many and by that I mean a lot, I hope that clears that up and sorry for creating the confusion. Sometimes I do not pick the appropriate word. I said I made my assumption from this site only, but I'm around atheist and Christians alike where I live and see their lives so mine is an assumption and I have no facts about the general population. I doubt I would agree with any poll done on this either by atheist or Christians, simply because people do not like to reveal the truth about themselves if it could shine a negative light on them them, that's human nature. Thanks for drawing my attention to using the wrong word in my first post on this thread.

GC

I understand that you've been on his forum significantly longer than I have. That's why I asked you what knowledge you were privy to that allowed you to come to such a sweeping generalization. At any rate, I appreciate your willingness to acknowledge that you made a mistake and that your claim is based on assumption, rather than factual data. Assumptions can be a doozy, can't they?