All human have a soul. We are not like animals who do not have a soul. Our soul one day will leave this physical body (when we die ), dont you know somebody created that soul, or was it form by itself. God is real and heaven and hell is real. If you die where will you spend eternity. Some atheist when they are in the point of death, that is when they will realise that they were in the valley of misunderstand, that they have lived without their creator.
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Who are you to say that animals don't have a soul ?
If humans have a soul and we are part of the animal kingdom, than animals have just as much chance of having a soul as we do.
By the way, how do you know that humans have a soul ?
What exactly is a soul ?
Please don't quote scripture as answers, we all know them as well as you.
Try to make a reasonable argument.
I'll be waiting.
My thought exactly. Seems to me theists HAVE to be better than animals it crops up many times.
This soul thing, god saying you can eat em, evolution.
Fact is were animals.
All humans have a soul? Prove it.
No human has a soul. We are like animals who do not have a soul. Our soul will not leave this physical body (when we die ), dont you know nobody created that soul, it was formed by itself. God is not real and heaven and hell are not real.
Do you believe these things just because I said them? If not, why should we believe what you say with no evidence?
If there were some place where you go and remember all your life after you die and live on a a soul and a soul is not something that you have as a human but animals don't have and therefore would not be able to go with you I would rather not be human.
Frankly, whatever humans have in regards to a soul I imagine animal would have it to. Have you ever heard the story of the guy who died and told he could enter heaven but his dog could not go with him. I told it on these forums somewhere and it happens to be one of my favorite stories. I bet the Emmanuel is one of those jerks who don't believe animals have emotions either.
Yes, there is no reason a tiger or a bear or even a chipmunk wouldn't have a soul if we do. We all have minds and thoughts, so why not share whatever it is that we have with the rest of the animal kingdom?
You believe that humans have a soul because you were told that by your religion. Some people used to believe that all things have a soul: rivers, rocks, horses, and humans. If you think that that is ridiculous, then you can understand why atheists believe that your argument is ridiculous as well. How can you be sure that you are not in the valley of misunderstanding? Despite this, I would really like to hear why you believe that so strongly, opinions are always welcome! :)
Myth lover said it best. Indians believed every creature has a soul and had spirit animal guides.
Actually agree with mordwyr. This conscious being we are, in my opinion, is best described as a soul. We don't have a soul, we are a soul. We have a body.
We are not like animals who do not have a soul.
You're right. We are not like animals. We are animals.
I'm just glad bugs don't have ghosts.
Holy shite! The stupid.... Just burns!
The subject under discussion is dualism, the mind-body problem. It was first addressed by Plato and Aristotle. It has been debated from the ancient Greeks to contemporary philosophers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)
Make of it what you will. It's a pretty hefty subject.
I don't know if humans have souls, or what this soul we're talking about is anyway. But, given the wealth of knowledge drawn from animal behavior studies, they pretty much have everything we have, thou we have better prefrontal cortex architecture. So if we have souls, they *almost certainly* have souls to, though they may not be able to navigate the intricate cause and effect relationship of events that might influence the fate of their souls.
If they don't have souls, we probably don't either. Unofficially, I don't think we do.