The bottom line of all this arguing over beliefs is it is silly. For those that do believe in a God and heaven, do you REALLY want your heaven inhabited with some "lefty-liberals"?
For those that do not believe in God, does it really matter that there are those that do believe?
Why don't we just make a deal that we respect each other not for what we believe in but for how we treat each other. Ultimately it is our treatment of others that determines the quality of life.
For the record of MY beliefs for ME. I was born, I am living, and someday I will die. The End. No afterlife. Yes, I am an Atheist. I do not belive in God/devine intervention. Does that make me any more or less enlightened than those that do believe in God/religion? Absolutely not. If others truly believe in God and feel they have the answers to satisfy them, so be it.