I deny Jesus as a savior of mankind, but I do think historically speaking, he was a real person. I find it extremely unlikely there is a God of any kind, even more unlikely a god that actually "loves" his creation and for some reason cares so much if people love him back. And to make it clear too, I don't believe in the devil either. I'm an honest and caring person, I've never done an "evil" thing my entire life. With that all said, would I go to hell?
Here's the thing, think of the world as an MMORPG. Only you get to choose what your character is. You have that responsibility. The creator of that MMORPG has NO OBLIGATION to "save your character" to his hard drive. Especially a character who bad mouths Him or denies His existence. Most humans playing a "God game" would torture and kill a guy who denies his existence and puts up the middle finger at the player. Our God is very gracious and forgiving. If you created an MMORPG world full of decadent beings, and sent your only son into that world to die for the sins of that world, and many of them deny Him and prioritize their own temporary and pointless existences, it would be well within your rights to delete their characters or punish them.
Our world could of been a world of unimaginable chaos, murder, and destruction, but instead has been given the light of religion which has pacified human nature, which is
the most destructive force on the planet. Humans and their greed, lust, envy, wrath, etc. often destroys countries, habitats, etc. If you have no religion, there is literally
NO LOGICAL REASON that you don't steal that car you want if you can get away with it, or rape that girl you've always liked, or murder that person who upset you. Or to become a drug dealer and peddle suffering for profit. Or a pimp and abuse women for money... etc. etc. Even now television is glorifying such lifestyles, but only our "conscience" (an illogical thing) is what prevents the strong among us from embracing a Social Darwinist, strong crush the weak, sort of world.
There is no reason to not do "evil" things (indeed "evil" is a construct of religion to shame the evolutionary ideal of the strong who crush the weak) if you are atheist.
And if the reason you don't rob banks or rape women is because you fear the punishment of the government, I'd remind you the government is just a group of humans and exists ONLY because of religion. Humanity was mostly hunter-gatherer for tens of thousands of years until religions condemned parts of our "human nature" like murdering someone who angers you, raping the woman you want, and raiding the local farms to steal the food they grew. By condemning that, farmers weren't subject to the constant bandit raids, people settled down into this "civilization" construct, etc. But without that religious condemnation, there is no reason for us humans not to become bandits if we are strong enough. If you can't see how this relates to today, for example, there is no LOGICAL reason that the lone superpower U.S. doesn't act a bit more like Rome and seize world resources for it's own profit. Like use it's army to seize all of the Mideast Oil, kill whoever resists, etc. Yet no politician runs on a "let's colonize and conquer" platform... most of them are, or pretend to be, Christians who "abhor" the strong taking advantage of the weak...
If you understand science, you know you cannot get "something" from "nothing". Everything in the Universe is "energy" and that energy came from somewhere outside the Universe and outside of Time. Our universe at one point in time DID NOT EXIST, according to even atheist scientists. And then it did. In order for a universe of creation and destruction to exist, there has to be another universe/realm in which the LAWS of entropy, chaos, and death DO NOT EXIST! there HAS to be an external realm in which the laws of life and death, entropy and chaos, DO NOT EXIST. You get to choose what type of person you are in this world.
Choose carefully.
