Sad News WARNING: Bible Discussion

[vulgarweed]

I'm so sorry about your cat-friend, Shaynie. It's one of the hardest 
things, to lose someone. People who say "it was only a cat" should be 
publicly lashed.


and Frankie wrote:

> On the cat soul front, Shaynie, I'm sorry your lost your cat. =( 
> 
> However, most eastern religions and a number of western pre-
christian
> religions hold that everything has a soul, even stones, trees and 
bits
> of poop. =P  Seriously. Check out Chuang Tsu some time.


This may be my Pagan perspective talking now, but even at the peak of 
the Christian phase I went through as a child, the concept of a 
living being that *didn't* have a soul never made any sense to me. 
How could that be?

Frankly, the notion that only humans have souls sounded to me like 
the kind of arrogance and smug self-superiority that is utterly 
incompatible with Christian humility. How dare we presume to know 
what God's plan is for the whole rest of Creation? How dare we place 
ourselves so far above everything else that lives and breathes? Seems 
to me that it's only a short step from that to deciding that humans 
we [want to] feel superior to don't have souls either, or don't have 
souls as "good" as ours (a grave error that Christians have, in fact, 
made often).

Let's "err" on the side of generosity - I think God/The Great 
Whatchamacallit does.


> Can of worms, anyone?

Yum. Heatin' it up in the microwave right now.

AV