It is a choice to have a disbelief rather than a belief. But to say you don't have a belief is false.
Your conclusions about the world around you are then seen through the prism of what you have chosen to believe, and therefore will read and listen to those that also see through the chosen prism of belief, even though many different beliefs are looking at the same things.
To then claim truth in disbelief through the process of occam's razor with merely the same things that everyone is also observing is a falsehood, as the assumptions made rely on a foundation of lessons taught in the unprovable, unseeable beliefs in the same way other beliefs operate.
If we all have the same evidence of that which we can see, but no proof of how it came to be, our conclusions are then simply based on what we chose to believe before the evidence was presented. A faith in which our conclusion about what is unknown is correct.
To choose to disbelieve about a belief is still a chosen belief in disbelieving.
Going to have to disagree with you.
Who do you think would be ushered into the pearly gates first?
No it isn't. You are painting all Atheists with the same brush.
This doesn't work with religious people because being "good" by definition means believing.
According to Christianity even Bin Laden went to heaven if he recognized Jesus before his death.
The only people not going to hell are those who believe in Jesus Christ.
So, you mean to tell me that some Aboriginal tribe in the Australian outback that has never been exposed to Christianity, are all going to hell?
Get over yourself, and stop the literal gate-keeping of heaven.
I'm not gate-keeping. I'm just telling you what I believe. If you have different answers based on the evidence leading to verifiable proven facts, and not beliefs, then I am inclined to listen.
So you have evidence or proof that when you die, if you believe in Jesus, you are automatically granted access to heaven?
Or, you have evidence or proof that when you die, if you don't believe in Jesus, you are automatically denied access to heaven?
If either of those or both are correct, please provide concrete proof other than something out of a book that has been re-written, by man's hand, countless times over the centuries.
If you can't provide proof or evidence.... neither of us are right, and both of us don't know WTF is going to happen to us when we die.