“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
