Reply #23: There is no consistent view on anything like that among atheists

[dmallind]

Which of course is as far as I can speak for them. I personally know more than one atheist who believes in ghosts for example. Atheism is defined by the absence of something, Asking about any other attribute is like asking if all non-golfers also hate cricket. There are certainly tendencies at least among US atheists. More likely Dems, more likely skeptics about astrology and so on, but no creeds to which we are all bound. None at all. Just absence of active belief in gods.