what are peoples' views on the past ,present (and could consider the future ) of religion (christianity/judiasm/ islam) and also the same question looked at from a spiritual(alternative) perspective?
No, athiesm says nothing of the sort. You appear not to understand what it means.
Wizard and I may both be atheists, but a lack of belief in god may be the only thing we have in common. Atheism does not infer a set view on how the universe started; indeed one need not consider how the universe began to be an atheist.
An interesting, and distinctly non-Christian way to define god by the way.