I have been in a situation where someone close to me was injured badly (gun shot), and was about to die. He was a confirmed non-believer and in the end all he could do was say please god help me i promise i will be good.
Is this how you will beg when you see death coming for you?
2007-06-21 07:10:30 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not lying, it was in combat.
2007-06-21 07:14:17 · update #1
I'm not afraid of what's going to happen to me when I die.
Though a gun shot wound would suck pretty bad, I might say some crazy things because of the shock
2007-06-21 07:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 13⤊ 1⤋
IF you are telling the truth, then that was ONE circumstance. (And I really doubt that you're telling the truth, because NO ONE who has seen someone suffer and die in combat would be so cold and unsympathetic that they would say something like "He was a confirmed non-believer and in the end all he could do was say please god help me i promise i will be good. Is this how you will beg when you see death coming for you?") My cousin is an oncologist, and we have had a discussion about this exact topic, because believers LOVE to claim that atheists all repent on their deathbeds. She told me that the story as a whole is total B/S. Yes, it has happened--but it's very rare. She said she's only seen it happen MAYBE once or twice. She also said that she's seen believers on their deathbeds decide that there was NO God, because they said that if there WAS a God, then he could not do this to those he loved, and that they can't imagine that children would had to suffer as they were suffering if there was a God.
She's a devout Christian, so she would have no reason to lie about this.
So before you get all smug and snide with your "Is this how you will beg when you see death coming for you?", understand that we can just as easily turn this story around and ask you how quickly you will lose your faith when you're writhing in pain.
2007-06-21 07:41:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all I am not an atheist, so I will go to the otherworld of my choice anyway.
But all I can say that what your friend was socially brainwashed. The western world is a mainly christian society, so whichever way you turn, you'll find a Jesus Christ or another christian symbol. People grow up with that, and if they're not certain whether there is a supreme being - God or otherwise - the easiest thing to choose to (and remember this bit) *play it safe just in case* is to go with christianity.
If you were Moroccan he'd have begged Allah, I'm sure.
Don't think of it as a compliment, think of it as an insult; after all, is it so easy to fool a God that you only have to convert seconds before dying?
2007-06-21 07:20:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in an upside down, burning, rolled over toyota tundra and hurt badly. My wife was thrown through the door that had broke open on her side. My thoughts as a confirmed Agnostic? How in the hell can I get outta here, if I'm gonna die, I hope its quick. I managed to finally get out and crawled over to my wife who was also alive even though her neck had been broken in three places. It has taken almost 3 years in recovery and things are almost back to normal. Determination and exercise are the reasons for it.
2007-06-21 07:24:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because one person who was a non-believer turned around and as god or spoken to god does not mean that all the other non-believers are the same. Your judging the action of one person as a representation of an entire group of people.
This is clearly a wrong approach, I am certain that you are not like the religious fanatic mentality of Fred Phelps.
2007-06-21 07:16:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I honestly think it has more to do with the person. And besides, when you say this person was a confirmed non-believer... confirmed by whom, exactly?
I myself am Atheist. I have faced my own death on more than one occasion, and never once did I ever ask for God. Why ask for a fictional character? That's exactly what He is to me.
2007-06-21 11:38:38 · answer #6 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't beg for any god, not the Judeo-Christian deity, not Quetzalcoatl, not Zeus, not Ra, etc etc...
And yes, the doctors thought I'd die. My spouse was told just that, actually, that I would most likely die. I was on the verge of having fatal seizures.
So no, I did not "death bed convert".
2007-06-21 07:21:36 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Assuming your story is true, that is one person out of - who knows how many .
I have been in infantry battled all the way across Europe. Life was worth about two cents. Never once did I beg a make-believe "God" for anything.
2007-06-21 07:18:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was him. I'm sorry for ytour loss. Loosing a buddy in combat sucks.
I am me. I was shot at and I even took some shrapnel. I never called for God or Allah or anyone else. The words that did come out of my mouth were pretty much unprintable versions of "I'm gonna get that guy who at shot me."
2007-06-21 07:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which is more likely to be reasonably representative of a person's beliefs:
1. What that person holds to when not afraid for her life.
2. What that person thinks shortly after she's been shot (if she even has the time or energy to think).
2007-06-21 07:20:47 · answer #10 · answered by Minh 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a) The supernatural comforts people when they are dying.
b) It is natural to swear using God, or even 'pray' to God the way your friend did, because that is a part of our culture. It may mean nothing.
When I am dying, I will think of my loved ones, not some created deity.
2007-06-21 07:18:52 · answer #11 · answered by Kharm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋