I think so. However, keep in mind I have atheists in my own family and married an atheist from a mostly atheist family. I find they are an entirely different breed from those who post in religion forums. While all have no belief in God, they have interesting views about the afterlife. These are: No afterlife, reincarnation, to something comparable to evaporation. Just as all forms of liquid are evaporated, collected, and then return to earth in several different forms, they hypothesize spirits are collected in the same way, mixed together, then return in combination with what were once other spirits.
Just as not all people of faith have the same view of an afterlife, nor do all atheists. The atheists I know best simply rule out heaven, hell, purgatory as that seems to require God–but not all rule out the same type of recycling that goes on with water and matter.
You think people of faith and atheists are quite different. Actually, we are much the same.
