You have come out from the misconception that they only believe in "gods" and not God. Instead of asking me to do this exercise don't you think you too have to gain some more knowledge about hindusim. The most ancient and authentic books of hindusm (vedas) talk only about one and only God.

Human being by nature is created to believe in Allah, even if a person denies belief in Allah he is in the state of denial.

This is what we understand from the verse.

7:172 When thy Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants, and made them testify concerning themselves, (saying): "Am I not your Lord (who cherishes and sustains you)?"- They said: "Yea! We do testify!" (This), lest ye should say on the Day of Judgment: "Of this we were never mindful":

 

This is testification indicates inherent belief in Allah, irrespective of claim of that person. Even when an atheist claim that he does not believe in God, he does.

Whoever worship anybody beside Lord of Heaven and earth, whoever claim to have more than one Lord of heaven and earth. Whoever, claim that anybody other than God shares the power and attributes of God are mushrik.

 

If a person dies in the state of shirk, there is no hope of forgiveness. What is counted is the state of person at the time of death. Many of companions of Prophet Mohammed PBUH were comitting shirk before Islam and after Islam all the sins were cleared.

The verse that talks about shirk being unforgivable is in case of not repenting. God may forgive others sins if a person dies without repenting also.

Actually this is something to do with deep human psychology. Once they honestly realise that their faith does not give all the answers, rather create more confusion they have to take a stand. Unlike other chrsitians they honestly take a clear stand that christianity has some major problems. Yet, out of their arrogance they does not want to look into other religion for the answers of said questions. Sometime, they are programmed to think in some specific terms and direction which force them to dislike terms and methodology of other religion. Sometime they are programmed only to hate other religions. Because of all these problems, neither they get satisfied with thier religion nor they look for answers in other religion. So, they turn out to be atheist just because of their own wish. At time it is possible that a claimed atheist may not understand his own thinking process. What I have mentioned above may not be a conscious decision, but may be it is something in their non-conscious.

 

Another reason is that many does not like religious rulings because it restricts their desires. So, the moment they realise that something is going to restrict their desire they avoid it and does not take it seriously.

So, I agree that atheist are liars, or they believe in God, but they just don't believe that they believe?

 

 

Repentance is pre-requisite to forgiveness?

for minor sins repnetance is not a pre-requisite and for major sins repentance in a pre-requisite. This is general rules scholars have derived. This is not something God have specifically promised us.

God have authority, He reserves full right to catch us for minor sins and He is merciful enough to forgive our major sins even without repentance. There is no such mathematical rule for forgiveness, it is between a slave and His Lord.