To prove souls exist, who is controling us? What is our mind? What is the thing which helps us think, comprehend besides the brain? It is the soul. The soul is our mind. The mind is NOT the brain. We are thinking about religion, but what is the thing which is helping us? The brain is just a mere organ. But within the brain, something lies which helps us do anything. It is the "imaginary mind", which is the soul. It is something real but we cannot feel it. When you read this, you try to understand it, your brain helps and checks your memory, but the thing that is controlling us is the soul.
Those who doesn't understand it, I cannot clarify it any further. It is impossible to comprehend it as it goes beyond our comprehension.
I believe what you are describing are the billions of synapses firing very very tiny jolts of electricity. We are who we are because our brains dictate us to be like that through years of environmental influence and nurturing through parents, friends, and over loved ones.
And no one can technically clarify it any further because the brain is one of the most complex and least understood parts of us. Given time and research, most signs point to it all being how receptors receive neurotransmitters in our brain and how each part works with each other part.
The soul only exists because it's a fun thought for many people. Just like the concept of actual magic is a fun concept(who wouldn't want to be able to throw a ball of fire or make lightning strike at will?)
As for the atheist thing, I am going to laugh when we die and turns out we were wrong. On the flip-side, I'm going to laugh at each religion as it turns out they are wrong, unless atheism is right, in which case nothing would exist meaning I couldn't laugh. To each their own.
Being atheist just makes the most sense to me. Science makes sense to me, all of it, even the parts I don't fully understand, I can at least make heads or tails of it. Religion, I can understand it, but it's the difference between non-fiction and fiction. I know the rules to non-fiction, but each and every book of fiction, well, they each have their own rules, their own set of laws, their own everything basically. I'm not outright calling them all fiction, because I honestly don't know what will happen when we die. I believe most in a type of reincarnation, that when I die, I will be somewhat reborn, maybe as a human, maybe as a snake, maybe as a Filoptoniana from the planet Filopton.
I think, what I want to see the most before I fully commit to a religion or lack there of, is another planet with intelligent life. That, in my mind, would prove or disprove most religions. But it depends on that other planet. If their beliefs are the same as ours, or something along those lines, then maybe there is something to this religion thing, or the same super aliens colonized both out planets and those were our God(s), but if the religions here and the religions there were wildly different or didn't exist there at all, then I would probably stick to my atheism path.
But I'm stumped on really what to think(aside from the alien colonization theory) if the other planet also had a religion like christianity. Does that mean the writers of the bible, or God, decided to omit the parts about making a second planet? Or that God is just super selfish and has lots of planets or creatures worshipping him? Or is God just the universe's best troll?