The laws of nature are the same for everyone, whether one is religious or irreligious. When a person eats delicious food, they enjoy it according to their physical disposition, not their religion. A healthy person may relish it greatly while an unhealthy person may not enjoy it as much. A level of peace and joy is a level of paradise. When people eat an inclement food, they suffer according to their physical susceptibility, not according to their religion. A healthy person may be affected less, and an unhealthy person may be affected more. A level of discomfort and suffering is a level of hell. Therefore, both the theists and atheists experience paradise and hell every day.

When a paradisial environment is created by good weather, good health, or enjoyable company, both theists and atheists enjoy and savor it. When hell breaks out through a war, pandemic, or storm, both theists and atheists suffer.

Everyone wants to avoid accidents, sickness, discomfort and inconveniences. That is, everyone, whether theist or atheist, wants to avoid any kind or any level of hell in their lives. Both are equally fearful of getting sick, or getting into an accident, and, therefore, both the theists and the atheists take precautions to save themselves from such inconveniences and troubles.

Everyone wants to live comfortably and happily. That is, everyone, whether a theist or an atheist, wants to live a paradisial life. Therefore, every human is afraid of hell, that is, inconveniences, sicknesses, accidents, natural calamities, and so on. And every human seeks paradise, that is, good health, peace and serenity, and so on.

One does not have to wait to die in order to experience paradise. One experiences paradise right here on this earth. Travel agencies sell tickets to visit paradises. We create a paradise around us through our conduct and just relations.

Similarly, one does not have to die in order to experience hell. People experience various levels of hell in sickness, accidents, failed relationships, natural disasters, or wars.

The soul separates from our bodies at death. The worldly body is buried, cremated or lost. The soul remains. The soul takes with it the impression of its sojourn in this world. This impression would reflect its joys and sorrows in the hereafter. To feel the joys and sorrows, it will need a new body unimaginable to us here on earth. The state of dream makes a good example of the joys and sufferings of a soul in the hereafter. In a dream, we end up in an unreal world in our sleep that is driven by our physical, mental, environmental states, conscious and subconscious fears and hopes that create unreal states of joy and sorrow in a dream.

Man has a short time to find his rhythm in this world but will have a long time to heal in the next world, where everyone will eventually see and enjoy a paradise together. A healthier soul will enjoy the bounties of paradise to a greater degree while a sick soul will recover and reach its potential of enjoyment at its pace.