Hello again!

Indeed, there are ways of looking at that (although I don’t know off hand if atheism correlates with nihilism). The team that I was working with in Lesbos was a top notch team made up of two of the top psychologists for the study of atheism in the world and they have a wealth of knowledge and easily 100 studies that look into correlates and even look to experimentally manipulate the relationship between atheism and other psychological variables. One thing I learned while I was there was that there is a correlation between religious beliefs and happiness (as measured by general “Well being”) but that not only are religious people more happy, atheists are too. What is important isn’t if you’re atheist or religious, but that you’re comfortable in your worldview. Basically, it doesn’t seem to have much to do with god, it has plenty to do with having a group that you feel a part of that helps you in life. Religions just happen to be better at this than most atheist groups.