hipster Atheist

[Tartarus Sauce]

I wonder if the link between self-harm (drug use) and atheism is indirect rather than direct.
atheism ---> nihilism ---> hedonism ---> drug use.

When I used to visit IRC atheist forums I would often casually collect data about how many atheists were smokers.
Anecdotally, I found that most - or at least an abnormally high percentage of - self-professing undernet atheists were smokers.

(Smoking deprives the brain of oxygen.)

Oh...I guess they can just take the nicotine out now that we know hedonism is what reels them in.

Did you collect similar data among forums for people of different religions? For other drugs? Why not alcohol, that's a drug too?

Would any of it mean jackshit?

It's amusing how both of you think that there is some significant link between religious affiliation and drug use. Personally, I think age, class, and income would be better categories to base your "research" on.

Oh yeah, and the faulty assumption that atheism inevitably leads to hedonism. That shit never gets old.