Atheists tend to be selfish bastards, as we see clearly in many of the posts here.
So what you perceive as selfishness in a statistically insignificant number of people on an internet forum is applicable to the vast majority of atheists just because you say so?
Hence the tendency of encountering athiests as single non-parents.
And how does that imply that atheists are selfish? There are far more single non-parent christians than there are atheists of the same description, are they also "selfish bastards"? Moreover, your assumptions seem to be based on people who's lives you know next to nothing about, and yet you arrogantly assert your asumptions as facts.
You're missing the point regarding the lack of "controls".
You are talking out your ass and making up "facts" as you go along, You don't have a point.
If you eliminated the married folks from consideration (or separated them), there would be a stronger bias for suicide among atheists who have no family.
Except there is not a statistically signficant bias for suicide in atheists unmarried or otherwise. Furthermore, there are not a large amount of people who have "no family" in general, therefore you are talkng about an incredbly small amount of atheists.
How laughable it is to read the bravado of the atheists here. Their overconfidence will not serve them well in the end.
The only thng I'm confident about the end of my life is that, sooner or later, it will end.
The typical atheist could care less about God or their fellow man.
The typical athest doesn't believe in your "god" enough to not care less about. However your assumpton that atheists do not care about people in general is complete and utter bullshit. Caring for or about others is not inextricably tied to a belief in your "god" or anybody elses.
The rejection of God leaves him with nothing in the moment of severe mental crisis.
Atheism isn't a rejection of a god, it's the lack of belief in any "god". You assume, wrongly, that everyone who is an atheist was first a devout christian. There is no sudden moment of "rejection", for most atheists it is just the gradual realization that they do not find the claims of an all powerful deity all that convincing. Then there's those atheists that have never believed in any god or religion.
Having nothing, he wants to become nothing. Persistent doubt now culminates in despairing agony. But there is no God to pull him out. Ignorance was bliss, but now it becomes excruciating pain. Once strong in his freedom, he now finds himself pitifully weak.
So how do you explain the fact that neither myself, nor any atheist I know personally ever experienced anything similar to that?
In denying God, he denies spirituality. Since he denies his soul and the possibility of spiritual assistance from God
Denial and disbelief are not only not the same thing. Atheists don't deny your "god" because they do not believe it exists in the first place.
it is quite simply unavailable to him as he contemplates suicide.
Where do you get this idiotic and wholly unsupported idea that becoming an atheist automatically sends people into a suicidal depression?
There is nothing to lean on, since the atheist denies the Power that established him and sustains him. He's on his own. But the darkness is black. Black. It is cold and terribly lonely.
And is anyone supposed to believe that "This is what will happen to anyone who become an atheist" just because you, a christian who has never been an atheist, say so? Show me a single atheist who will attest that their deconversion made them suicidal. You can't do it, if for no other reason than the fact that you are lying through your damn teeth.
