Atheists feel god?
No.
Also, the existence of air can be proven scientifically. That's kind of an important point to that argument that people seem to miss. Is it deliberate or are people just that oblivious?
You missed the point. He was saying that to theists, the concept of God is as natural as air. You can't (typically) see either, but you know they're there. That's just how natural theology is to them, just as you sit there and go "well
obviously since I don't see any concrete proof, it means there's nothing". Two different viewpoints and sometimes even looking at the same evidence produces two different ideas. (Like the people who look at the Big Bang and see only science with no room for a deity, or the people who look at it and see proof of God setting the universe in motion.)
Even thinking of death as 'an ocean of eternal darkness' implies the person somehow living after death (just in, well, darkness.)
You won't see darkness. You won't feel or see anything; it'd be just like before you were born. Can you remember that? Do you recall seeing or feeling or perceiving anything? Existing?
Atheism just means you don't believe in a theological higher power, so no God(s). It says nothing about afterlife and if someone believes that after you die it's just a deep, dark abyss, they can still be an atheist. And you're sort of being one of
those atheists in this thread, the ones that turn every discussion involving theology into "no, atheists are right because ____". D:
Though I guess everyone's sort of getting it wrong with thinking that all atheists belong in nothingness after life and all theists believe in heaven/afterlife equivalent. I look at (a)theism very literally, meaning for me, it's just whether or not you believe in any sort of deity and any superstition or lack thereof relating to a religion (or personal beliefs that don't align with a religion) is separate.
As for myself, I used to consider myself an atheist and then I realized later that I honestly don't care in the least. Maybe there's a god, maybe there isn't. What if I decide to believe in a god and follow a religion and I pick the wrong one and don't get into any sort of afterlife anyway? I don't feel that it directly affects the life I'm living now, and it doesn't interest me enough to ponder it deeply, so I'm just apathetic.