I would like proof not hearsay that educated lifelong atheists have actually done this.
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_remsburg/six_historic_americans/chapter_1.html
2007-12-31 18:49:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Possibly -- but it isn't much more likely than seeing pigs fly. The most notorious tale along these lines had to do with Darwin: someone claimed that he had rejected evolution on his deathbed. The tale was a lie from start to finish.
2007-12-31 18:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
why would they?
do christians or Muslims decide to stop being religious on their deathbed?
being an atheist takes a lot of brain power....instead of blinding following the religion you are born into they make a sound decision.
to say no to 'faith' takes a lot of guts......for example....in a modestly religious persons life, if anything goes wrong he/she would pray to god, ask for forgiveness, or ask for help if needed.
but what does an atheist do? none of those...therefore an atheist is a much stronger person because they don't rely on 'faith'. if he/she didn't recant atheism during their life time (which is harder than doing it while laying on the deathbed) he/she wont do it at the very end.
2008-01-01 03:03:43 · answer #2 · answered by Pro Bush 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahh..the old "atheists recanting their disbelief and discovering salvation on their death beds at the very last moment" gambit. Otherwise known as the "Where There's Life There's Hope" ploy. Thousands of years of Xtian nonsense with no end in sight. Priests with smoke and holy water all around, incanting their final, prayerful gasps in hopes of saving the dying wicked from eternal damnation.
Dramatic, ain't it?
2008-01-01 03:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure they do. As far as being a life long Atheist I'm not sure but what does it matter an Atheist is an Atheist. Does educated life long Atheist pull more weight than other Atheist? And what if they do. Life long Christians have denied God on their death bed. People in pane will do strange things and if you know you are dying it doesn't matter how you go anyway.
2008-01-01 02:58:32 · answer #4 · answered by Betty Boop Oop A Doop Atheist 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Odds are, some have. I haven't personally heard of any doing so, however.
I've decided that if (and that's a very small if) I were to have a deathbed conversion, I'd beg the Aztec pantheon to forgive me for avoiding them all of these years. I don't want to make those guys angry.
2008-01-01 02:56:47 · answer #5 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I sure as hell wouldn't. Why pick up Pascal's wager just because you're dying?
2008-01-01 02:55:14 · answer #6 · answered by rbc_commish 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have known 5 atheists that died as ... atheists.
I'm sure some convert. I'm sure some of everything converts. Death is pretty harsh. But I've not seen it.
Honestly? I have seen instances of ppl harrassing atheists as they die. They're good-intentioned Christian nurses and nurses aides but that doesn't make it any less horrible for the poor Atheists having to sit thru it. Again.
2008-01-01 02:54:09 · answer #7 · answered by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea
2008-01-01 02:54:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is funny, What do you propose we dig up a few athiests and ask them. I would say No it is a story tale and very few to Non change their minds at the last minute.
"To thine own self be true"
Rev MacOg of the Asatru
2008-01-01 02:53:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've been bedside with two atheist friends who died. They had no interest in religion and one even rudely dismissed the chaplain with more than a few choice words for trying to brainwash him at a time of physical and emotional turmoil.
Yes, there are atheists who die atheists. I've never seen any reliable evidence of bedside conversions.
2008-01-01 02:53:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋