The Disabled

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... reveals that if the mentally disabled can love God or can be accepted by God or can enter heaven, then so can atheists and members of any religion.

The Mentally disabled
Let us consider a person that is severely mentally disabled from birth. Because they are not born in a way that facilitates understanding of religion they can generally understand ideas about God. Despite them not conceiving of God perfectly not many people argue that God sends these people due to the lack of their understanding.

Atheists and members of 'wrong' religions
Explicit Atheists do not believe in God for logical or intellectual reasons. Implicit atheists do not believe in God because they have never experienced God or been told about God: Ie, they have no conception of God and have therefore not rejected or accepted God.

Implicit atheists are in the same boat as people who have never been informed about the true religion: Their innocence should not condemn them because it is not their own fault. A moral God would not allow heaven to be denied to people for reasons that are beyond their own control.

Explicit atheists seem to be a different subject altogether. But I think I can argue, as all people understand God differently, that not understanding God is can be considered a mental disability from a religious point of view. Explicit atheists reject God because they do not believe in God. They will say they (the author is an explicit atheist) that they have never experienced God and have not seen logical arguments for its existence.

Emotional Disability
It can be said that atheists' inability to experience God is a mental disability. If they experienced God they would no longer be atheists, but if experience of God is a necessary thing in order to believe in God then atheists must suffer from a mental disability preventing them from viewing God. Implicit atheists would certainly fit in this category.

Intellectual Disability
Explicit atheists fail to see the logic that leads to God. For intellectual reasons they think it is more likely that God does not exist. This is a form of intellectual disability... or a disability of faith. If explicit atheists did not have this disability they would clearly perceive that God probably existed... that they do not think this is not a choice they make, it is a function of their inbuilt character and out of their control.

Conclusion
If mentally disabled people are accepted by God into heaven despite them not being to conceive of God in a normal way then atheists and members of 'wrong' religions can be said to suffer from mental disabilities (intellectual or emotional) preventing them from realising the true God, and God must accept these people too. If God rejects people because of their intellectual or mental shortcomings God is immoral.