do animals have souls?

Started by king leonidas3 pages

do animals have souls?

this morning during religion i asked my teacher if animals have souls, she said no. now personally i disagree my dog has a soul as do other animals. what do you think?

It's easy to see animals as having souls, especially if you're a pet owner and love your pet. Most Western traditions would tell you they don't, however.

So it basically comes down to your belief structure. Are we somehow seperated from the rest of creation due to some God-figure (Christianity, Judeaism, Islam, etc.) or are we simply part of a greater whole, neither greater nor lesser (primarily Eastern traditions)? And do you believe in a soul at all (Atheism)?

"If we do, so do animals" would be my opinion. But definitions of what a soul consists of outside of Western tradition is a tricky proposition, at best....so it might not be a soul as you would think of it in what I'm assuming is a Christian setting.

There's no way to know so believe whatever makes you happy here. So long as you don't go all PETA and start valuing animal life over human life.

;-)

Of course if you really wanted to be rigorous you'd need to define soul in the first place. If your cat plays the sax he has soul in one way but perhaps not another.

Re: do animals have souls?

Originally posted by king leonidas
this morning during religion i asked my teacher if animals have souls, she said no. now personally i disagree my dog has a soul as do other animals. what do you think?

How do you know that you even have a soul?

that dancing cat in the Bjork video has got soul

Originally posted by vintageSW77
that dancing cat in the Bjork video has got soul

And my shoes have souls. 😉

And South Korea.

Originally posted by Ytse
And South Korea.

😄

Well, I have to say that I do think that animals have souls.

Originally posted by marcu
Well, I have to say that I do think that animals have souls.

I always say, if I have a soul, so does my cat. 😉

Originally posted by Ytse
If your cat plays the sax he has soul in one way but perhaps not another.

😆

That's pretty funny.

For the record, I believe they do....er, um....I want to believe they do, but am uncertain.

How's that? 😉

Originally posted by BobbyD
For the record, I believe they do....er, um....I want to believe they do, but am uncertain.

How's that? 😉

I don't know. 😎

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I don't know. 😎

Gimme back my sunglasses, Shaky!!! 😠

Originally posted by BobbyD
Gimme back my sunglasses, Shaky!!! 😠

Hey! 😱 Those are prescription. 😛

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Hey! 😱 Those are prescription. 😛

Oh sorry. 😮

Someone else must have them.

I don't believe in souls 😉

In SpongeBob SquarePants Squidward said he didn't have a soul. If anthropomorphized animals don't have souls why would normal animals have souls?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
In SpongeBob SquarePants Squidward said he didn't have a soul. If anthropomorphized animals don't have souls why would normal animals have souls?

I don't know how to argue with that point. 😕 I don't even know how to agree with that way of thinking. 😂

And thats why I can't lose.