It's the same thing as donating money to charity.  That time you are giving up could either have been spent at a job making money or spent on leisure time.

Also... I didn't say atheists don't help charities at all.  Just less then religious people.  Likely because religious people they need to.

That's not why i donate money to charity and do charity work.  But a lot of peopel do charity work because "That's what Jesus would want" or whatever.

Without "It's what jesus would want" would they have developed the motive to give to charity?  Perhaps, perhaps not.  Who knows.

Here you go..

actually, i dont consider my Atheism a religon, more other a lack of one.

i maybe outside the norm, but some of the posts people make imply that ALL atheists are horrible people who hate the poor, which is just not true at all.

also, there are fewer Atheists in the UK, US and much of Europe than religous people, so naturally they give less, as there are less of them, you also dont know if Atheists do other things to help people, i mean, technically a doctor is helping thoose less fortunate by healing them, the only difference is that its there job and the poor people live in the same nation as them, but its still hepling them, so for 100% accurate statistics, you need to factor in people who do jobs that benefit thoose less fortunate than them.

That isn't exactly what you said there.

"On average atheists make more money and donate a smaller percentage of their earnings to charity. So there is quite the financial gain."

I mean that's like if I somebody said "why would somebody believe in god?" and I replied "Because statistically it's more likely you'll use violence to enforce your political views, which is alot easier than through discussion."

I don't have a pie chart for that, nor have I read any studies. But if I brought that into every topic, it would be in poor taste and show that I have a certain disdain or at the very least, lack of respect for a group of people.

You'd think that after reading this post, most would have dropped the charity statistics and chest beating.

If we are allowed to talk about how the average atheist gives less to charity then the average religious person, can we talk about the positive corralation between high IQ and atheism.

Meaning the average atheist is smarter than the average religious person.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23860215-5005361,00.html 

The doctor is getting paid right?  Doesn't count.

Also the study for what it's worth works on percentage of income.  The higher percentage of your income you give away the more charitable you are... etc.

I already mentioned that Atheists make more money.  So I imagine it'd work.

Once again it only makes sense... since you usually have to go out of your way to be an atheist and people with low IQs generally aren't going to go out of there way to do a lot of stuff.

Atheism is a religion. It still follows the definition of a theistic religion, although being opposed to theism.

Here's M-W.com's definition of religion:

If you are a practicing atheist, your still holding onto a pattern of beliefs, having faith in something (science), and given to it's cause (arguing there is no god). If you look at the word religion, it's a dedication to a pattern of something. Although we perscribe it to a belief in God, that is not the prerequisite for the word.

The opposite of religion wouldn't be someone that is godless, but one that lacks a system of belief (regardless of what that system is), and puts their trust in nothing.

Well first off.  They are two different statements.

1) Atheists make more money.

2) Atheists donate less money to charity.

Which are two financial gains to being an atheist... due to not being tied in to a third party norm system.

Also... both statements are based on studies.