I'm not leaving until I convert someone.

[Mister Agenda]

My dad presented something interesting to me. When atheists shout an explictive, they say "Oh my god!", not something like "Oh my allah!" Also he told me he once heard a preacher was in Vietnam and talking to a bunch of atheists. They said they didn't believe in God, yet later all came crying claiming they wanted to accept Jesus into their heart. My mom says everyone at one point gets a chance to be introduced to Christ.

It depends on what they learned to say as kids, doesn't it? I personally don't say OMG, but I never got in the habit of the first place as I was raised not to say 'God' casually. I'm sure many former Muslims who are now atheists say whatever explitives they're in the habit of using.

I was 42 before I knowing met my second atheist, but if I believed all the 'personal' war stories about atheists in WWII and Vietnam I've heard on the internet, I'd have to conclude there were more atheists in the military than were left at home.

Don't believe everything you hear from anyone, especially your parents. Almost all parents will lie if they think it will help you to turn out the way they think you should better than the truth will. 'Adjusting the facts' of an anecdote to better make the point they want is one of the most common ways they will do this.

But I'm sure some athiests will revert to childhood indoctrination under enough stress. It's called 'regression'. I've never met an atheist who has, but it would be surprising if there weren't any. It implies there's a God about as much as a Hindu crying for Krishna means there's a Krishna, or calling for your mommy under fire means she'll come and save you.

Personally, I've had open heart surgery (12 years ago) and spun out of control in an ice storm just a few weeks ago and in neither situation did it occur to me to appeal to God. I've been an atheist for nearly 20 years though, and was only an agnostic theist for ten years before that, so maybe I've just lost the habit. But again, never meeting anyone when they were an atheist and seeing them convert under stress makes me think it's much rarer than some people make it out to be.