(March 25, 2015 at 1:16 pm)robvalue Wrote: You can't "learn" God is gone because it's generally an unfalsifiable claim.
In the real world, not necessarily for fiction.
(March 25, 2015 at 1:16 pm)robvalue Wrote: Saying theists care more about their family or their country than atheists is not something I'd agree with.
I didn't say that.
(March 25, 2015 at 1:16 pm)robvalue Wrote: And again, suicide is not something you can make general statements about. Religion can in fact provide an extra reason to kill yourself, this has happened.
It's a theme in a novel, there's not really any sort of general statement but to say IN GENERAL if a person loses what gives them happiness and emotional security they are at an increased risk of severe deppression and therefore at an increased risk for suicide.
This isn't so much important as I'm trying to get a GENERAL idea of what Atheists might find happiness and emotional security BEYOND family and country.
