Hi Joseph, I appreciate your curiosity of my perspective. For what to tell a nonbeliever what will happen to them when they die- I don’t have an answer for them, as no human is omniscient. It isn’t my place to say what will happen to anyone’s future. I believe whether we call it Heaven or some unnamed entity, a human spirit resides in a place of peace after death. Since I believe in love and Grace, I don’t believe that Resting In Peace is something to be earned with rules made by religion. As Dan mentions regarding wickedness, death is death. Neuroscientist Eben Alexander from Harvard who technically died and came back while monitored in a coma, says he experienced the concept of heaven, and it helped him believe. If we trust that he saw heaven, then I must notice he didn’t go straight to hell despite being a skeptic of God before, because religion claims nonbelievers only experience hell. I think even for those without the same ideologies and religion, they experience peace. I would encourage my kids and myself to believe in a God entity not for our future death, but for our living experience. I believe in the solace of God while I am alive, not just to safeguard my death. Shouldn’t a spiritual presence also be for our experience on earth, which often feels like hell? A higher power comforts me in suffering on earth. I know my intentions are good and I hope for eternal rest thereafter. Instead of worry, I find comfort in a God who doesn’t shame me for not claiming a religious doctrine. I have peace in a God who saved me from the abuse I experienced within churches and in relationships that tormented me for simply existing. Maybe it isn’t heaven vs hell, but heaven vs nothing. I believe in a higher power, and that this higher power is present in all of us if we choose to access it. I believe most in love, and that’s all I claim.