You are lucky, Goofy. Lucky because you "know".

Well, I *know* what I *know*. I don’t make up fantastical things to explain what I don’t know.

Had I been alive in, say 1800 I wouldn’t have said “there can be no such things as germs”. I might have said “No one can see them, no one has proven they exist, so until they do I choose not to believe them.” The unsaid part then - and now - is that if someone can demonstrate it, I’ll believe it.

Until then, I see no profit in believing things which cannot be demonstrated, proven, or otherwise shown to exist. I’m entirely open to new ideas, all I ask is that you not ask me to “take it on faith because you say so.” That has never worked out well, including the drowning of witches, rain dances to change the weather, human sacrifice to appease the gods, and so on.

All manner of terrible things have been foist on the planet in the name of “trust me”. The existence of a “soul” is just one more.