Comment by lj3

Maybe it's because Americans like to be alive and atheists have an alarming tendency to kill themselves. I don't know why, but humans are hard wired for religion.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.16...

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/155/5/413.full

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26661826

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26110867

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25862549

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25863908

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24115346

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24908151