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Where is your evidence no one has seen the afterlife? What do you mean by "real"? Part of physical reality in our spacetime continuum caused by the expanding universe? Again, spiritual things are not "real" in a physical sense, and this is where you have trouble comprehending it. You assume that if it's not physically a part of reality, it isn't real. However, you are aware of dreams, thoughts, ideas, and other things that aren't physically real. How do you explain that? How can things exist that aren't physically real?lion, death and electrocution is real. These are things we can see everyday. No one has seen the afterlife.
Your spirit, your soul, the essence of who you are, your personality... these are not components of your physical makeup. What happens to these elements after you die is unknown. You can have the opinion these things "die" with the physical body, but you've not established this is a fact.
Nor have you disproved it. God does not exist, the only reason people think he exist is because they believe it to be true. My 5 year old believe Santa Clause is real and comes to our house Dec 25th each year. That's pretty much what your belief of god is like. As made up as Santa Clause, created by man.
Again, for the hard headed... you cannot say God does not exist. You can say that you don't believe God exists, but you have no evidence to prove God doesn't exist. Whenever you believe something without evidence it is called "faith" and you have faith in your belief that God doesn't exist.
We've been through the comparisons with Santa Claus... humans would not have endured thousands of years of persecution and death for the sake of believing in Santa. Since the very inception of "Santa Claus" everyone knew it was not a real entity. So you are drawing a parallel with something that simply doesn't belong in this conversation.