What is death but merely a portal to the other side? As we die, our mortal selves leave this plane of existance and we are thrust into another.
Not true. We are only here for a temporary time. Worrying about a next life is less important than worrying about everyday stresses.
But surely one must accept one belief in order to maintain his moral values.
Not so. Secular humanism shows us that even those with no beliefs are still firmly grounded to moral principles.
That may be true, but is it not also true that they are behaving that way based on the moral principles that they were taught as a child by their religious parents?
I can't believe that you're not religious. Have you ever felt as though there was something missing in your life or anything?
You mean an unidentifiable heap of irrational belief known as a soul? No such thing, my good friend.
How can you say that? There is obviously some guiding force that drives us to make choices. Something that is not repeatable with machinations such as AI constructs.
But that is the brain! All that drives human behavior is a complex set of neural pathways that form a conciousness.
So you agree that there is an unexplainable thing that drives humans. Can we compromise on calling it a soul?
Only if I can call your mother by her true name when I'm fucking her.
