Does Atheism help to remove anger, worry, and fear?

I'm just wondering if a firm belief in the lack of a deity comforts a person, or helps them to cast off anger, fear, and worry?
Does it have any benefits as far as creating a steady state of psychological health?
What would you say it does for you in a practical sense?

This is not a confrontational question, hopefully, just a thought about what the benefits are.
How are you happier for being Atheist, how has your life and your character improved?

I imagine if we could ask this same question of the Christians, we'd get a lot of nice answers, so I thought I'd ask it of the Atheists, too.
I am so pleased with the wonderful answers from the Atheists giving their reasons for being happier.
All viewpoints have their own validity.
I can see your point much better now.

"Does it have any benefits as far as creating a steady state of psychological health?"

Believing in imaginary friends is a steady state of psychological health?

Ok.

Not on the death bed.

The truth is it's own reward.

Your question bespeaks your belief that atheism is a doctrine. Atheism is nothing more than a lack of a belief in any kind of god or gods. Nothing more, nothing less.

no. atheist don't believe in a god. that's it.

inn if this is a scientific explanation or some people are just too dense to understand

To be a atheist is synonymous with hatred.

Without God we are nothing,without Christ we have no hope'

'Everytime a Christian is persecuted, mocked, slandered or hated the bible is pr oven to be true'

Those are human emotions, not religious concepts.

Yeah, I've never felt more alive in my life than when I gave-up the superstitious nonsense.

Welcome to R&S you must be new here.

The Atheists here are more twisted that my Aunt Gerty's Slip in a hurricane

Atheism is not a self-help program. It's a position on the existence of gods.

What health-benefits different beliefs have or don't have is completely irrelevant, because what one believes or doesn't believe about ones surrounding reality aren't currencies to buy benefits with. They are positions about what you think is or isn't true about your surrounding reality.

i would say it allows me to continue to look for answers to questions and allows me to think freely about all things.

religions takes this free thinking away from you.

Yes it removes God which is anger, worry and fear

Well, thanks to me now being atheist, my answer to everything is not either "God did it" or "the devil did". I am finally able to take responsibility for myself and see how much control I have over my life. And that is a wonderful feeling to me. I felt free for someone reason.

Yes and no. You don't have to worry about being sent to hell for eternity all your life but on the other hand you know that there is no heaven. So when you're on your deathbed you will be more scared than say a Christian who thinks he/she will be going to heaven.

no. But Christ can.

The benefit is that you learn to rely on your own strength like an adult instead of depending on a big daddy figure to comfort you like a child. I really don't think dependence is psychologically healthy, but churches encourage dependence on authority and discourage people from trying to work through their own problems.

That was one of the big things I discovered when I left Christianity. I realized that I really could handle my own problems.

Atheism offers nothing. It offers no hope after death, no hope with illness and no love. In fact most of them are evolutionists so for them it's survival of the fittest......but seriously, on an emotional front they have nothing but sympathy to offer.

Atheism isn't a firm belief that god doesn't exist. It is merely the lack of belief that gods exists. This lack of belief tends to force people to face their fears head on. It removes the cognitive dissonance that a christian feels when they see obvious evidence that the earth is much older than 6,000 BC.

My life has improved immensely since giving up Christianity. I no longer have to rationalize away the obvious, nor do I feel compelled to hate someone because the bible told me to.

my son goes to high school with many atheist students and they seem to cause the most trouble in school

Not believing in god means I don't worry about accidentally sinning. I can have fun, don't have to live in constant fear that I'll anger god.

Yes it removes it to be focused on the real cause of pain: your parents

I suppose it can, but atheism is really just a lack of belief in deities.

The biggest advantages of being an atheist are that you don't have to worry that some omnipotent being who decides whether to sentence you to eternal torture or happiness when you die is constantly watching you, you feel more confident and in control of your own life, and you're free to make your own judgments and decisions without fear of violating some obscure tenet of your religious doctrine and going to Hell.

Nope. Atheism doesn't "help" anything -- it's just an attribute people have, lack of belief in other people's claims about magical gods. It's not a replacement for religion.

Rational thinking, knowledge about the real world, constructive and demonstrably effective ways of dealing with problems -- those things can help to "remove" anger, worry and fear. Those aren't part of "atheism" -- however, once you put aside superstitious belief in claimed magical gods, you do tend to start developing those useful tools.

Peace.

I read an answer on here that surely was the best one ever...

The person had been raised devout, fundamentalist, Bible thumping, shouting, praising, preaching Christian.

She said when she finally dumped that, it was emancipation. No slave, she said, ever felt more free than she did no longer having fears that Christianity breeds on.

no.they are dividing people.

Those two tables will show a correlation between increase in atheism in a country and increase in happiness in a country.

I am definitely happier and I would blame it on the increased control of my own life. I don't even think about a deity influencing my life. I accept that I am the only one in control of my own life and I use that to my potential, no wishing, no praying, just MAKING it happen.

It can help for forgiveness, because knowing that you cannot bypass the person you have wronged and go directly to God, is a good reality check.

Knowing that you have only disappointed yourself and not God also makes it a little easier to get over inappropriate guilt.

Finally, not having to pretend that certain fanciful and difficult to believe things are true is liberating in a way.

I was a christian decades ago. It wasn't until I left the church that I clearly saw what religion did to people. I've never met more intolerant, bigoted, hate-filled, hypocritical people in my life as I did at church.

But, atheism is nothing but lack of belief in deities. There is no agenda, no doctrine, no leader to follow. Very simple really.

BTW, I left the church because decades of study proved to me beyond ANY doubt that god(s) does not exist. I credit the bible for my emancipation.