Is it true,as many claim, that everyone will plead for God's help when threatened with sudden death?
Well, if I'm driving down the interstate and I see an 18 wheeler jump lanes right in front of me headed in my direction at 70 miles per hour, it's possible I might say something like "Jesus Fucking Christ!!" Does that count?
Otherwise, no.
I would say what the fuck and steer out of the way
From the mouth of Hitch:
Christopher Hitchens
Not me...tried it once circa 1970 when ex was kicking me & proceeded to strangle me in full view of maybe 200 people at a dance club...not even any humans tried to help!
I'm sorry that humans can suck. That's awful.
religious people say there are no atheist in foxholes I say there is only atheists in foxholes because if they truly believed they would go to heaven they would not be trying to avoid the bullets!
I saw a video years ago which reported to share the last words of people who were facing death. The number one comment was a variation of, "oh sh-t" or "oh fu-k". Second was a reference to family.
Steve Jobs' last words were 'oh wow'.
No....I don’t believe a lifetime of disbelief and reason can be overturned, even by threat of imminent death....it’s not logical to presume so. Only the religious can be making such claims, they believe that we are really all believers who are being perverse!
Whoever came to that conclusion would have had to study everyone closely at the moment of their deaths. Since there are people who remain uncooperative by being alive, the study itself is flawed.
I was in a scary movie with my Catholic sister - at the same moment we both exclaim - I say "Oh my God!" and she says " Oh fuck! ".
I laughed for a good five minutes after.
It's whatever pops into your head.
Having acknowledged my atheism when I was diagnosed with cancer in my 40s? It occurred to me I could back slide. I did not however.
Reason and science appealed to me far more.
I do say Oh God or Oh My God often but it's not literal. Neither is Oh Shit, fuck or fuck me ( well sometimes lol), It's all just words.
No...and there is no way to prove it either way...
Not true in my case, nor anyone I personally know who has experienced something like that.
I expect some insular theists whom only know theists and lack the imagination to comprehend any other kind of life - like those claiming atheists are drilling it into the heads of little kids that they are "only animals", like they do with their victims of indoctrination - have convinced themselves this is true; probably the same way and for the same reason they have convinced themselves of many things over the years.
The belief that they are not weaker, needier and more arrogant than the rest of us. "Everybody will cry for their blankie when then time comes, just like we do."
No. We do not.