do religious people really believe?

[Esquilax]

The difference between us is I have assurance in my continuance. A disbeliever, such as yourself, has no such assurance.

None of us has any such assurance. We're just being honest with ourselves about that.

It doesn't matter in the end, of course, but you only get this life, you ought not to waste it preparing for an afterlife which exists only in your fantasies.

Whoa, hey: Esquilax very much did not write that. He would have written something much more... factual.

A Supreme Being is metaphysically necessary

I think you've been here long enough to know we're going to need more than a flat assertion before we go along with that.