Benevolent Creator God?

[Astreja]

I have no way to tell one way or another, but my disbelief in an afterlife is very, very close to 100%.

How do you get to this probability?

It's an aggregate of several things:

• A lifelong lack of religious belief, and zero belief in gods -- any gods.
  
• No empirical evidence for a "spirit world" of any sort.
  
• A very strong lay knowledge of neurology, including typing hundreds of EEG reports.  In order to be conscious, the brain wave frequency has to be above a certain level.  The slower the waves become, the less aware and awake someone becomes.  Below about 4 Hz, in the delta frequency range, we don't even dream.  Brainwaves stop altogether at brain death.  Therefore, once someone dies it's vanishingly unlikely that there will be any "self" remaining to experience life after death.
  
• It's obvious to me that tales of heaven are wishful thinking to assuage the fear of nonexistence, and that tales of hell are Machiavellian threats specifically concocted by priests and rulers to frighten the population and keep them in line.
  

In my eyes the concept of life after death is a childishly absurd concept, and I simply can't take it seriously.