Just so you know, being an atheist and believing in an afterlife aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm not atheist I believe in the potential for a god-like being, whether this is a conscious being or just "everything in existence as one living entity". though I lean towards the latter.

I don't believe God magically "poofed!" the Earth in 7 days or some ****. I try not to criticize anyone who does though, since if their god really is all powerful, it's easy to understand why they'd believe what they do (a truly all-powerful god could make a 9,000 year old Earth and retroactively make things billions of years old. I'm not explaining myself very well here, but as an example would be DC's DCU comics history. In story the universe was remade. Technically, in-story it was only a few years old but had billions of years of history. Not a good explanation, and I'm just making myself sound stupid, but I've no idea how to properly explain what I mean. Maybe insert "time happens all at once" or something similar. Or time moves in all directions. Someone can probably explain what I mean better than me.

I do believe in an afterlife too. I try to ignore religion as a whole though, as they just feel like large brainwashing cults (no offense). They obviously (usually) have truths in them, but I say take the truths from them and walk on past the dungheaps. If you're using your religion for hate, you're doing it wrong.