This is a logical fallacy - "Colorado is not X, therefore Utah is not either". In your earlier comment, you noted religion's correlation with happiness, but al

This is a logical fallacy - "Colorado is not X, therefore Utah is not either". In your earlier comment, you noted religion's correlation with happiness, but allow me to quote from a review article about religion and suicide specifically [1]: > Whether religious affiliation protects against suicide attempts may depend on the culture-specific implications of affiliating with a particular religion, [...] > The relationship between religion and suicide is complicated because both religion and suicide are complex constructs You're making the mistake of conflating the individual's own degree of religious belief (which is _possibly_ mildly protective against suicide) with the _cultural context_ and its effect on people of varying religious belief and identity. Colorado is not Utah. Utah is, as the saying almost goes, a bit "peculiar", and it's tricky. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310534/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310534/