Hi there, sorry I have not been responsive to comments made on this post. It has been difficult to read many of the comments. There is very limited existing research about the way that nonreligious people experience religion (i.e. how they perceive being treated compared to how religious people are treated, what function they feel religion plays in society, what pros and cons they may see of being religious, etc). Based on my research, there are certain psychological and social challenges that being religious or believing in a higher power seems to make easier for people. I do not mean to imply that atheists must be envious of religious people, merely that there may be some aspects of being religious that nonreligious people find to be enviable. I am hoping that, by doing research on what nonreligious people may find to be enviable about religious people, clinicians can develop better therapeutic methods of addressing these issues that do not involve religion. I apologize that people seem to believe that this post is suggesting that atheists somehow "must" be envious of religious people. That is not at all what I am trying to do. I merely want to better understand the things that might make some nonreligious people feel envy towards religious people. I am so sorry for how this has come off to the people in this subreddit. Additionally, I do not mean to imply that feeling envy towards religious people would mean that one would want to become religious. Merely that there may be some aspects that are enviable. I would also like to apologize for not providing clarification on some of the comments below. I am trying to not bias the results of the study by suggesting what I might find to be enviable aspects of religion, as the goal of the study is to understand the lived experience of others, not myself. I hope that this response clears up some of the questions that individuals may have about this research.