Well Mr Red, when I looked that up on the Psychology Today website it seems that the correlation between faith and longevity doesn't apply everywhere, far from it, and that we should be wary of logical fallacies. Anyway, I have a hypothesis, based on my observations over many years of the "Deaths" column in my local paper. According to many of the entries therein, "God only takes the best". If it's true that atheists don't live as long as Christians, then it seems that God is more enthusiastic about having atheistic company than Christian company, putting off the taking of Christians for as long as possible. I conclude that God prefers atheists. QED.