with greatest of respect, I believe in lots of things... not nothing...and believe it or not I am very tolerant, nice, peaceful and productive member of society. I just need proof of a deity, and nowhere in human history is there such proof.

A belief in the after life does not make it necessarily so. There are hundreds of gods, they cant all be right. What if there is a deity and an afterlife and you get there and have been glorifying the wrong one? This is the dilemma that all religions face.

delusion is very hard to break free from, its had thousands of years to infect the human mind, I realise its difficult to break the bubble and see from the outside.

No offense meant and I hope none taken.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
-- Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.