Only Sanathana Dharma (today as hindu) allows a place for atheist as well.
Other man-made religions, do not allow atheist.
But,
Veda, like a mother, allows a place for atheist as well, as even atheist also came from supreme creator Narayana (purusha/Brahmam)
At first, a child knows only mother. Mother then shows who is the father.
Veda like our mother, shows our father (vishnu) and other demi gods.
A mother do have multiple children. Some children do respect his father, some due to arrogance disrespect his father.
But for mother, she like to shout at that child who disrespect her husband.
Sameway, like a mother, veda cautions atheist son as fool and cries to know the love of father in below vedic mantra
While we see vedic mantra in taittirīya Upaniṣad, we can understand, Veda (knowledge of Supreme) giving place for athiest.
अस्ति ब्रह्मेति चेद्वेद।
(asthi brahma ithi cheth vedha)
सन्तमेनं ततो विदुरिति
(santham yenam thatho vidhu: ithi)
असन्नेव स भवति।
(asann yeva sa bavathi)
असद् ब्रह्मेति वेद चेत्
(asath brahma ithi vedha cheth)
- तैत्तिरीय उपनिषद् (veda)
Veda, like mother, says to us...
Child, If you say, 'Supreme Creator exist, (asthi)'
then, O, Goodone! that Bhagavan (God) himself will give you an experience to feel him/see him/realize him that he truly exists.
Child, If you say, 'Bhagavan does not exist (asath) though he truly exist,
then, O Fool! that bhagavan himself will give you an experience as if he don't exist.
Veda (mother) says, vishnu (our father) likes both believer and athiest... but with little frustration.
Hence veda (mother) calls believer as santham (good child) and atheist as asann (foolish child),
Bhagavan/vishnu (father) has given intelligence to humans to think about him/find him in true form. (Animal don't have that intelligence to think his creator)
With this intelligence,
Some human understand that "God exist".
Some believe that "God does not exist".
For Vushnu (Father), its ok.
He accept both views. But feels bad about his atheist son who disrespect him always.
Bhagavan is Like our father.
He have 2 kind of sons (believer and atheist)
Believer respect him.
Atheist don't respect his presence.
As a Father, Bhagavan also don't have hatred of his both sons either..
But,
he happily supports his son who respects him...
In other hand,
He ends up being silent to his foolish son who denies him. But worries more on him.
What's the disadvantage of being atheist?
Veda calls atheist as "asath" (fool).
Both believer and atheist have karma effects.
If you do good deeds, good results will come to you.
If you do bad deeds, bad results will come to you.
So, even being an atheist, you can live happily in this world, if you do good things to people, society etc.
Bhagavan don't curse non believers (atheist) unlike other man-made religion concepts where they say "non believers goto eternal hell".
Veda addresses atheist as, "fool" because, of 2 reasons.
1. If an atheist do bad deeds, and experiencing bad times in his life, God can't intervene and support him.
Its a big loss for non believers.. Hence veda like a mother address atheist as "fool"
For 1000 years, hindus were massacred in their own land by muslim and christian invaders who came from from saudi, turkey, iran, Spain, french, Britain, Dutch, portugal... Wealth looted, knowledge stolen, kings disappeared, brahmins killed, vaishya (business) lost their wealth, temples destroyed, sudra (employee) became poor slaves, imposed heavy tax on vedic god believers, converted lakhs with sword, rape, money..
In 50 years entire civilization of Greek disappeared when christian invasion happened..
But even after 1000 years of 2 violent invaders conquering the land, hindus didnt cease but resurrect and still alive and strong.
Why?
It's because, Vedic God believers, if they face bad times, Vedic Gods pitch in and resurrect and protects the vedic dharma.
Man-made religions were protected by humans. Hence, one day they bound to disappear, if some other views dominate.
Vedic Sanathana Dharma is directly protected by Supreme Creator himself and hence could not be destroyed despite 1000yrs of conquest of 2 manmade religions
2. Because atheist don't believe in God, any action he/she does, must fall in either good or bad deeds. So atheist with no choice have to face good or bad results for the deeds.
If he/she dies before facings the results for his past deeds, he have to reborn again and again based on karma effects.
Salvation is not at all possible. Hence veda like a mother says "fool".
Salvation (liberation) is possible only if a person don't have either good karma or bad karma.
Those who understand Supreme Creator Vishnu do exists, have 2 benefits..
1. If they face tough times due to some bad deeds in past, bhagavan can reduce the impact or even negate based on devotion of individual.
2. If the believer, surrenders all his actions under the feet of Vishnu, the supreme creator, he/she gets salvation from rebirth by the grace of vishnu by negating his both good and bad deeds.
