Religion You are going to die... so let's discuss what we each think happens next.

[Terthna]

I am not atheist because it is cool and fun.
I wish very much I could believe, being an atheist has been awful ever since I learned enough biology to realize I won't be uploading my brain to a robot, instead I will die and my existance will wink out forever.

No matter how appealing it is to believe. I just can't do it.
Just like how, no matter how much I want to fly, I can't seem to do it. Wishing to fly simply does not work.

You are right that being in a foxhole and being splattered with the guts of my friend would make it more appealing to believe. Although not necessarily EASIER.
Sometimes staring death in the face makes it harder to believe... for example, anyone who ever interacts with dementia or alzheimer patients. You see the spark disappearing as the brain physically fails and KNOW that there is no immortal soul. just a meat robot.

I don't see it like that. I mean, just because the player character in a video game dies, does not mean that there was never a player controlling it. That's the kind of relationship I think the immortal soul could have with its physical body; the latter is just a temporary avatar for the former that allows it to interact with this world.

 

[Cherico]

I don't see it like that. I mean, just because the player character in a video game dies, does not mean that there was never a player controlling it. That's the kind of relationship I think the immortal soul could have with its physical body; the latter is just a temporary avatar for the former that allows it to interact with this world.

when the game ends all of the pieces go in the same box.

 

[Zyobot]

I don't see it like that. I mean, just because the player character in a video game dies, does not mean that there was never a player controlling it. That's the kind of relationship I think the immortal soul could have with its physical body; the latter is just a temporary avatar for the former that allows it to interact with this world.

Hmm... don't mean to derail or spur a heated debate here, but I don't suppose you've come across a book series called Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch before? It was actually authored recently (the 1990s) and expands upon many of the ideas you've posited.

Of course, much of what's in there flies in the face of organized religion and is kinda' hard to prove outright. However, I like to believe it's genuine, mostly because the content strikes me as too "profound" to have simply been the product of Walsch's imagination or something.