Umm......so this part is completely off topic.
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Consciousness should return if somebody passes out. If it involves brain damage, maybe not. Where does it go? It's nothing physical, so it can't go anywhere. Consciousness is... caused by electrochemical signals racing through the brain to produce something wonderful. Animation is the same way.
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I completely understand that you are not speaking as a biologist in presenting these ideas. However, if the above quote were true, I believe we would theoretically be able to bring people back to life after a longer amount of time than when we are capable of doing now. This is suggestive that whatever you consider to be "animation" is not electrochemically based, but instead something different. If there are any biology/medically trained people out there who could shed some light on this, it would be great.
So this part is not off topic.
Atheists are quite capable of being fanatics. While the connotations of "fanatic" generally imply religious conviction - to which I could understand some atheists being completely against the use of the term for themselves - the word itself simply means a person who is vocally (and perhaps physically) adamant about a belief. Some atheists are extremely fanatical (may I use the term anti-God?) just as some nonatheists are fanatics of their own religions. The fact that Christianity and other religions have a few centuries of bloodshed and debate behind them changes nothing about this point.