So he was an atheist, and he had someone trying to convert him to Catholicism.

It really doesn't apply to the point, then. He had no belief system of his own, so he borrowed someone else's.

And yet he is a Protestant, not a Catholic.

Which further goes to my point... he interjected a belief system over what was happening.

Everyone does, though children are less likely to.

And, by the way, I had multiple NDEs, not one.

Additionally, there is only ONE God, that's true. But unfortunately, the bible LIES about that one God.

Everyone will, after they finally relinquish their stranglehold on their various belief SYSTEMS, arrive at the same God and the same knowledge of God.

The ones who will be surprised most of all will be the various christian denominations including yours... how shocking to discover a God who isn't anything like the murderous, evil, villianous, spiteful, nasty monster of the bible!