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Published: 08/7/09

Smiley Face Atheists: Survey Finds Non-Believers to Be Upbeat

By  David Gibson - Politics Daily
Smiley Face Atheists: Survey Finds Non-Believers to Be Upbeat

Last time we looked in on America's unbelievers, they were registering a growing disappointment in President Obama's track record on their issues, with special concern that he was spending too much time on God talk and on placating the religiously inclined.Now, however, comes word that could give the godless reason to smile -- if they aren't already: A new study of some 5,800 non-believers reports that contrary to popular conceptions of atheists as crabby misanthropes, they in fact tend to be as happy as their believing brethren, and are in fact more satisfied than people who are uncertain in ...

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