Hi Taz. First, sorry about your friend.
Now that I am faced with my own mortality as well as the mortality of every other human being on Earth, should I turn back to god or should I continue to deny god's existence?
It seems from this statement that you're not claiming God doesn't exist, or that there is no evidence to support any claims of God, it just seems like you're making a personal rejection of something you still believe is there.
"Should I continue to deny or turn back to him"...In both scenarios there is still a Him that exists. In other words, I, as an atheist, see nothing to "turn back to." I see made up stories about celestial god(s), none more relevant than the other.
You don't seem to lean this way. At least not by these statements. Perhaps deep down there is still a soft spot that believes God is there?
Will "Judgement Day" be a planned event meant as a wakeup call for all of us or will it just be an event, one of many in the universe?
To me "judgement day" is a mythological story, one of many, found in religious texts.
Now, if the question is, will I, as an atheist turn to some higher power when facing my, or all of our, death? Well, maybe. Who knows. How does the saying go, "there are no atheist in a fox hole."
Death is scary. It's the final stage of life. And deep down, most people understand that it's basically the end of all you know and understand, and I think that even the most faithful have a huge doubt about an afterlife.
- Oni
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