I have twice looked into the abyss of death - once with a coma after a car accident and once with cancer - and never looked for, saw, felt, or prayed to any god.

People like crediting their god with healing me and keeping me from dying. After my accident, someone told me "He must be looking out for you." My reply: "Then why did he have a deer run out in front of my car?"

It's a myth they choose to perpetuate... as in "There are no atheists in fox holes." implying that if in danger, an atheist will revert, in desperation, to belief.

Christianity and lies have been bedfellows since its inception.

I almost died in 94. I spent a month in the hospital and never once thought about praying for help. What I did do was be nice to and joke with the nurses, doctors, and techs since they were the ones taking care of my ass.

I imagine finding God is like finding Waldo. Every time you think you got something it turns out to be just another asshole in a red and white striped sweater.

Of course they claim that. They made a movie with Kevin Sorbo where he was an atheist because he was angry with God and repented just before he died. It's the only way they can stand our existence is to claim we're all 'secret believers'.

Having escaped Catholicism and lacking George Carlin’s comedic talents, i settle for “Fuck God.”

this sums up religion in my mind and its funny as anything also
Carlin was a very funny sociological genius
Imagine him as your teacher in sociology 101

Some atheists figure out if they just agree that annoying prick will go away and let them die in peace.

I'm going to be strong. and not give in to invisible gods that don't exist, and hope the scientists can find cures so that people can not get diseases, and live forever, and have eternal youth, death is a disease, that I hope science can cure someday

My husband never faltered in his lack of belief and I was with in for almost every minute of the last 32 days of his existence.

That is typical religious bullshit that they love to repeat even in memes, of course with zero evidence, so they can feel better about their brainwashed hypocrite selves.

When I had a heart attack/open heart surgery, I never thought "I need to repent so I can go to heaven". My only thought was how my children were going to get by if I died.

I did piss my evangelical sister though. I keep referring myself as a zombie since they had to stop my heart to do the surgery.

Later, when I was rushed to the hospital for AFib and pulmonary hypertension, it didn't occur to me to pray. I just didn't want to die in front of my son.

Belief is an extremely addictive thing. Those people who have it, need repeated dosages. They are to be pitied--but also avoided. I've been through the "window of light" twice in my life. During those experiences I received the knowledge there is no god. It's all make-believe.

I doubt I will find god again if I'm near death. I don't like wasting my time for anything.

Really glad you recovered.

Movies like this garbage reinforce my loathing for religion.
Believers just cannot grasp that non-believers are fine without religious delusions.
Even when things get scary.
I've been in a couple of dangerous situations. Not once did I resort to praying to god
for "rescue". If I had, I'm sure I'd be dead.

Wow. Had a cardiac arrest and was "clinically dead" except my co-workers were able to shock me back. Didn't face death, I died and basically it cemented my atheist beliefs. There was no white light, no dead relatives, nobody saying it's not your time yet.

I'm not surprised by this idea. The film "God Is Not Dead" had the same idea and believers always seem to think more about death and "getting right" with their god.

I totaled a work truck out one time and it happened so quickly. I wore a seat belt and was not hurt at all. The last thoughts in my mind as the truck went out of control were "now I'm gonna be hit by all these other vehicles" but it did not happen. I had no god thoughts.

Interesting delusion. When my father, a lifelong fundamentalist Christian, was in his last days all he did was worry about the existence of the afterlife and panic over the possibility of non-existence. Humans aren't even a little rational, so trying to derive some information (or satisfaction) from various forms of panic at end-of-life is at least as meaningful as reading tea leaves.

Not even a temptation. I’ve seen my share of deaths, and faced the possibility of my own extinction several times, and don’t see any role for a god there. Like most folks, I wouldn’t care to die in a messy or painful way, but find the idea of death as final finis to be comforting.

There is an old axiom, "There are no atheists in a foxhole". I do not believe it for many, but I could imagine a lot of people losing their professed ideals when faced with death.

An atheist friend of mine had 2 brushes with cancer, the 2nd one taking him, at age 62. He was proud to say that he'd not become, or been, a deathbed theist. I'm guessing that the Christian film will play to Christian audiences, who will already "know" the truth of the message. It is, after all, their fairy tale.

As wicked as I have been all my life...even when I had a few near death experiences I never once thought about any "God"...besides...what would he want with my sorry wicked ass and why would he think I am worthy...rediculous Religious BS.

But there again if you have the time to entertain that thought the old school of pragmatism says "do you need more enemies at this time of life?"