I didn't know about that fact concerning atheists. I saw a study once concerning suicide that showed rate of incidence by job professions and parts of the world. It showed that dentists were the highest number of suicide victims and that Sweden had the most suicides per its population. I don't know anyone Swedish, but I have a friend who is a dentist. He tells me that it is a job that can really get on your nerves. Apparently, it is not much fun working inside someone's mouth and not being able to have much conversation throughout the day.
I laugh silently about that nowdays when I visit the dentist, and she tries to have a conversation with me while my mouth is numb and there is a rubber dam stretched from one side to the other. I just go "Uh,uh merf, gim blub,blub." in response. I don't want her jumping out the window of a high building.
Regarding your comments on the capacity of human understanding...
I am reading a book right now by Rudolf Ruker. It is kind of a primer for helping one to better understand the multi-dimensional math of current cosmology theory. I don't know if you have been keeping up with it, but the science community has advanced way beyond the old Big Bang theory as being the initial word on how Creation really took place.
Now days everyone is following the more up-to-date "Superstring" theory that believes prior to the Big Bang there was an "existence" having 10-spatial dimensions, plus time. For some reason that larger dimensional space became unstable and cracked into our 3-spatial dimensions (plus time) Universe. The smallest constituents of that early Universe were very small "building blocks" they have named "strings". These are much, much smaller that the quarks of our current day atomic model.
Anyway, the science community believes that all matter (including humans, planets, stars, elements, atoms, even quarks)are merely different vibrations and configurations of these strings. The vibrations affect and take place in the entire 10-dimensional model, but the other 7 dimensions are outside our human capabilities for detection. We see only the results of the vibrations that occupy our 3-dimensions.
In other words, theory and extrapolation of the mathematical processes we use and apply in our world, are giving us reason to believe in the existence of "something" far outside our world but directly linked to it.
A skeptic can say, "Well, if we can't see this other world, I have no reason to believe it exists or that it had anything to do with the world I currently experience." Most people are skeptics. The strongest evidence that anyone can provide for this "theoretical math" is that it is the only mathematical model that "unifies" all the known forces (weak, strong, electromagnetic, and gravity). Einstein died before he could come up with a mathematical model that unified all the forces. Now we have such a model, but because we can't examine these higher dimensions, it is doubtful that man will ever confirm directly the theory's validity.
The point I am trying to make is that we are reaching the outer limits of our intellectual and physical capacities. It divides us into those who see the "glass half full" and the "glass half empty". I am a "glass half full" person. I think the skeptics are those who lean more in the "glass half empty" direction. In a similar manner (even directly related to the science issues perhaps), believing or disbelieving in a God really boils down to the need for direct proof. Some can believe without the direct proof, and some can't. It's a personal decision.
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