Can someone who believes in reincarnation be an atheist?

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Can someone who believes in reincarnation be an atheist?

This is probably a softball question for ya'll.

I had the weird experience of someone who has a blog about atheism contact me about my loss of belief in god and say that he thinks I'm "running away from myself." He said that he believes in ego, mind and spirit, and that I need to befriend my ego. He talked some unprovable stuff, said I'm probably a young soul (1 or 2 lifetimes). I wasn't expecting all of this to come from someone who writes about atheism. He said he calls himself a spiritual atheist.

If someone believes in reincarnation, do they have to believe in a god to cause that process?

Is believing in a soul or spirit incompatible with atheism?

I'm thinking that it's possible to believe these things and still be without belief in god, but it's rather sloppy thinking because there's no credible evidence of reincarnation or soul/spirit as there is no evidence for god.

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