But saying that we don't know what we don't know is not the same thing as making up stories from whole cloth. No observational evidence suggests that anything like a soul exists. Just because people write about it and wish it to be true doesn't mean anything about its actual truth.

I have a lot of skin in this game because superstition has been used for centuries if not millennia to oppress people like me. Religious beliefs and similar superstitions make my hackles rise.

So I go to a lot of effort to challenge people who believe superstitious nonsense. Because to my point of view and Life experiences, superstitious nonsense is dangerous and harmful.

One of the greatest achievements of the modern world is the death of (or rather the war on) superstition and the rise of systems of inquiry that actually work.

We actually can investigate whether things are true or not. And we should.