Why religion is invulnerable:

[Cuthbert Allgood]

17. Oh stop framing the theist position as equally valid.

It's the same as saying "There either is global warming or there isn't. One's no more right than the other."

Here's what we know. At some point the human body dies. Brain activity ceases and that causes all bodily functions to stop. We call that "dead." We will all die. There is no proof that anything happens after that. So I "believe" that when we die, we are dead and there is nothing. If you want to claim that there is this magical "soul" (or whatever you want to call it) that exists after what we know happens when we die, that burden of proof is on you. I have ZERO burden of proof so show that nothing happens. I am the null hypothesis. They are not EQUAL by any stretch of the imagination. You have the extraordinary claim that there is something after death (extraordinary because there is ZERO proof for it).

It's not a belief in the sense of a religious belief in the afterlife.