Im sorry for what happened, I've been stressed out since yesterday. A lot of innocent people have died, they don't deserve such death :(

What your friend told you, no God isn't keeping you alive because you can die whenever you want by just committing it.

People live with fear, they convert back to gods out of fear of the unknown, if you take fear from them they will start to rely on their own, they'll become fully

When something happens in nature, they have who to blame, who to pray to, just to make a meanings and a purpose. Fear does that. In a vast universe like this life cannot be ruled by fear, Universe is greater than that. In a vast universe like this, million things can happen, most of them are evil. If you think god is evil, then yeah, you have your reasons, I was like you and I moved on, I stopped believing in god and now all makes sense more.