Alien Crucifixion Scenario

[I_am_not_mafia]

There is no such thing as a spirit or soul. If there was then anesthesia would not work and we'd be awake in the middle of operations while being cut up, alcohol and drugs would not have an effect on our feelings, decision making and neurodegenerative diseases would have no effect on memories and you couldn't get knocked unconscious. You are your brain. Nothing else. Once your brain is gone, so are you.

Proof please, insinuations are not fact.

Oh right so it's OK to talk about Mr God as if he was a fact but when someone says the contrary you demand proof. Not even evidence but proof. Shows that you want to believe what you want to believe.

Read the medical literature. Or the neuroscience literature and look at all the recorded effects of brain lesions. Or have an operation where you are put under with anesthetic. Or go to an old folk's home and speak to someone with Alzheimer's. Or get drunk and take drugs. See how the way you think and feel and the very essence of who you are changes because of how your brain is interfered with.

Now give me equally compelling evidence that your god exists.

When you'll die there will be no you to realise that you are dead. If you have ever been put under for an operation you'll know what it will be like. Consciousness will cease. No dreams. Nothing.

 I take it you're speaking from experience, but wait, why you are alive you can't possibly know what you claim.

Science baby. It means that we can determine these things collectively rather than rely on individual experience.

There is no god. When you die, that's it. Nothing.