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Buddhists can be theists or atheists. People believe illogical and incompatible ideas all the time. Atheism is not incompatible with a belief in an afterlife. What if consciousness is a thing that is created by certain organizational patterns that exists in the observable dimensions, and once the patterns cease the thing that is the consciousness itself continues to exist, but is forced into non-observable dimensions? You are just using a different definition from me. My definition of atheist is "not a theist". My definition of theist is "one who believes that a god exists". All that said, it is true that people who identify as atheist tend to be less likely to believe in an afterlife.No, God and the afterlife fall within the same broad category of metaphysics. There is no disputing this. The categories and arguments which disqualifies God disqualify the afterlife. To say that an atheists can somehow make these two positions (belief in the afterlife but not believing in God) consistent and logical is impossible. By invalidating one, you invalidates the other. These positions are not solitary. They do not exist in a vacuum. They come with support, secondary beliefs, arguments, premises, assumptions, and suppositions just to name a few. That is why if an atheist believes in the afterlife, then they are not an atheists. The atheists believing in metaphysics makes that atheists a theists. And they are theists no matter what they categories themselves as. Eventually, the cognitive dissidence in the person will fracture and the person will eventually turn away from one of these two positions unless they turn to a theistic belief structure which corrects for this dissidence.