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Atheists don’t believe in God for various reasons, and they should be allowed to believe what they want. Religious freedom is a wonderful thing.

However, it’s our belief that some atheists base their viewpoint on misunderstandings.

Here are seven common convictions atheists hold, our thoughts, and why they may want to reconsider.

“There is no heaven or afterlife.” Based on many Near Death Experiences or NDEs (such as described in videos on Youtube and in the books Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife by Eben Alexander III M.D., and To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story by Mary C. Neal MD) of religious people of various faiths, atheists, and agnostics, they all experienced an afterlife. Also, their faith or lack of one made little difference in whether they made it through the white Light light tunnel and to the other side. Therefore, according to the well-documented history of NDEs, the belief that “You can’t get into heaven if you don’t believe in God” is false.

This is an example of how many religions, over many centuries, have unintentionally, and sometimes intentionally, distorted spiritual messages. If you strip away and avoid what we believe is religious dogma, as we do in our many articles, the message is sometimes very different.

“There is no proof that anything beyond the physical world exists.” Atheists tend not to believe in ghosts, spirit communication, reincarnation, or any kind of life force. Atheists try toattribute divine guidance (information appearing at the doorstep of your consciousness) as just another function of the brain, as if you’re only a hunk of flesh and a brain with no connection to anythingnon-physical. While there is no physical proof of reincarnation, countless people possess anecdotal evidence, such as describing during a past life regression a centuries-old home, including a verifiable address, in a country they’ve never visited.

Also, many people have received communication from spirits and ghosts through mediums such as The Long Island Medium who routinely gives accurate, unexplainable-by-conventional-science psychic insight from souls who have crossed over.

It is not surprising atheists don’t believe in such things because they tend to either block their spiritual side or simply not be very spiritually sensitive like some people are who regularly perceive ghosts or receive insight from spirit guides and other spiritual helpers.

You could compare skeptics attacking those who embrace the spiritual realm to demanding proof that love exists. Try telling a mother the love she has for her child is all in her head, that it’s not real. Who is the joker? The talented psychic or the skeptic?

“There is too much evil in the world for a God to exist.” Atheists believe that if there really were a God, he or she would not allow so much evil. Our perspective is that people do evil things, and God cannot control people because they have free will. Humans reincarnate to use their free will, within the boundaries of their destiny, in order to learn and grow spiritually and life’s challenges offer the most opportunity.

Also, just as there is light and dark, day and night, hot and cold, and love and hate, we believe, based on our many years of experience with spirit possession, that dark and even demonic energy does exist in this world. Humans have free will to investigate it, learn about it, and then protect themselves from it, but most people don’t.

“Faith is unreliable.” Sometimes it seems that God pulls through for you, and sometimes not. Atheists don’t believe a God would be so inconsistent. Yet, there’s a reason why praying doesn’t always provide the results you seek: fate and karma. You can pray and believe all you want, but if something is not meant to happen due to your personal fate and karma, it won’t.

“Many religious people behave immorally.” While this may be true, there are many religious people who don’t.

“There are so many different religions and gods with different characteristics that it renders religion overall as baseless.” If you examine the world’s religions more closely, you’ll find that most of them have similar themes.

“There isn’t a valid reason to believe.” We don’t believe it’s necessary to believe in God to live an honorable life, but we absolutely accept some of the tenets that go along with such a belief, such as treating others as you want to be treated, being honest, and personal responsibility.

Religious people have an added incentive to behave, but as long as you treat others well, we believe that your religious views or lack of any are secondary to being an upstanding human being.

No matter what your faith, our Direct Your Destiny e-package helps you increase your spiritual awareness and personal growth.

In our exhaustive metaphysical exploration and studies over the last 25 years, we’ve never exclusively adhered to one system, religion or approach. Instead, we’ve objectively considered and sampled multiple alternatives, then applied diligence, reason, and strong intuition to discern what was of the most value, and discarded what wasn’t.

One of our favorite spiritual tools is past life regression. If you experience regression enough times, you’ll find that you (your soul, not your personality) have lived many lifetimes and experienced various religions, races, economic conditions, and multitudes of other human circumstances. You’ll also better understand your life today and why you experienced what you did then.

Past life and life between life research has also shown us that there is no religion on the other side. Once your physical body dies, you enter a spiritual realm of complete love, understanding, acceptance, and awareness, void of ego and judgment. This means that religious constructs are man-made and they only exist on Earth.

Organized religion can be very beneficial. It gives people hope, peace of mind, and it can help reinforce order and morality, benefiting society. However, religion can also be harmful when taken to an extreme, as with the following seven examples.

1. Strict marriage rules tend to cause a lot of pain. Certain religions mandate that their followers must marry only people of the same faith, which has caused great sorrow and even harmful consequences. Also, many religions prohibit divorce. Can you imagine having your marriage arranged at a very young age, then having no way out, for the rest of your life, once you realize your spouse is abusive or not at all compatible?

2. Intolerance of other faiths isn’t spiritual. Contrary to what some religious leaders teach, no one religion has a monopoly on God or whatever other name you want to give to a higher power. Such bigotry has caused much war, violence, and terrorism.

3. Intolerance of select groups of people isn’t spiritual either. Religions declaring that homosexuality is wrong only encourages, at the least, homophobia and self-hatred, and worst case, suicide and violence. Fortunately, we have found zero evidence of anyone being punished in the afterlife for being gay, but plenty of instances of past life homophobes paying a karmic price in future lifetimes.

4. Lack of personal responsibility is fostered by some organized religion’s tenets. Most people instinctively know what is right and wrong and behave accordingly. But others lack this awareness and blindly follow their religion’s strict rules. Even worse, they’re instructed that as long as they go to confession, for example, their bad deeds will be cleared. This just excuses and encourages bad behavior. On the other hand, when one understands the concepts of karma and reincarnation, you know that everything you do, say, and intend will come back to you. There’s no get out of jail free card.

5. Unfortunately, many religions foster excessive conformity. There are so many rules that encourage people to obey instead of thinking for themselves that they develop a sheep-herd mentality and fail to cultivate their unique individuality.

6. Select organized religions advocate irresponsible rules about sex. Some religious leaders preach that condoms are immoral while HIV, other STDs, and unwanted pregnancies continue to be a massive problem. Some of these same leaders have even protected pedophiles from prosecution and instead blamed gays and the secularization of society.

7. Malnutrition from a “spiritual diet” is an unfortunate byproduct of some belief systems. While New Agers tend to be spiritual, not religious, some of their views and practices can do more harm than good, like the myth that you must be a life-long vegan to avoid creating negative karma. A long-term, strict vegetarian diet can be beneficial for some body types, but according to experts like Dr. Joseph Mercola, few people benefit from strict, long-term vegetarianism.

If your religion enriches your life, then by all means continue with it. But it’s our belief that one doesn’t need to be religious to be a good person, help others, and do the right thing in all situations. Our findings show that you won’t be punished in the afterlife if you follow the truly virtuous tenets in your religion and drop the rest.

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