This is why education is so important. I've seen so many incredulous christians go down this path of scientific ignorance, trying to extinguish their ignorance by shifting it to their god. Learn some shit about the universe from science before you ask "atheists" but thank you for lumping us together. You probably just asked us because we're the group that's most trusting of our most powerful form of self-correcting empiricism.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.