Atheism and Sadness

[Simon Moon]

As I am not an atheist, I do not know the answer to this question, so I am asking you.

Are atheists generally sad, unhappy people, as opposed to Christians (true and otherwise) and other believers?

Not that I know of. 

There is no evidence for atheists being less happy than theists. 

Some of the countries (Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Japan, Denmark) with the highest percentage of atheist populations have among the lowest suicide rates. 

Denmark is about 60% atheists, and is considered, by all methods of rating, the happiest population on the planet.

Idk, it just seems sort of discouraging to me to go around thinking that when you die, you just become like a lump of dirt, or a glob of poop, and thats it . No after life.. no paradise in the sky with your dead family members and pets.. just nothing.. so sad .

Let me ask you a question.

How could this afterlife you believe exists, be a paradise for you, when you have the knowledge that the vast majority of the human population that has ever lived, will be punished for eternity? This might even include some of your friends and family.

My empathy would cause me to be in torment if I knew most of my fellow humans were being tortured in a hell. Your idea of paradise, would be horrible to me. 

I just feel lucky that I don't buy into that ! The possibility of heaven after I die is really kind of a motivator, something to "hope for" if you will!

Yes, we all know that you believe a lot of unevidenced, unsupported things just because they make you feel the warm fuzzies. 

Part of the reason I ask, is that so many of the posters on this forum seem like grumpy sadsacks a lot of the time . It's like something is bothering you in this world.. but you don't know what it is.

You do understand that most people's online personalities do not usually correspond to how they are in the real world, right? 

Am I right? Are atheists sort of an unhappy lot (Generally speaking?)

No.