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They've all been thoughtful and honest, though occasionally carrying implicit assumptions that I have attempted to unpack as best I can.

All the atheists I know of don't believe in afterlives either, but I'm not aware of surveys on this insofar as nonbelievers are concerned generally.

I won't speak for all atheists, but will say definitely parts of the Bible reflect actual history.

It is true that natural human societies have religious beliefs.

I don't know any historian of note who has the slightest that Muhammad existed, and I'm not aware of any who doubt the historicity of Buddha either.

That is, if the word "religion" is used in anything like the way normal people use it, which is belief in supernatural entities that involve claims about the history of things, proscriptions about behavioral dictates, and degrees of veneration or worship.