There have actually been studies d o n e f o r n a t i o n a lstatisticswellbeingdatan 9138076 . html ? utmhprefukirUK showing that the religious tend to be happier . Note that with all statistics this describes trends in a population and has no bearing on whether you personally feel happier or whether you should be happier . If a theist tries to use this as an argument for theism , my usual response to this is the famous George Bernard Shaw quote The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one . The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness , and by no means a necessity of life . <| sep |> I ' d probably stay away from the article , then . It does spoil some surprises .