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Originally posted by azasadny
Superman,
. From a spiritual perspective, humans have a soul (that part of God that lives within us) and animals do not. Souls go to heaven or hell after death, so no animal would go to either "place".
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I respectfully disagree with this vision of spirituality. There is no such thing as heaven and hell after life. Souls can reincarnate in animals, many oriental religions teach this. Souls can also reincarnate back to earth when they have not grown enough. That would be hell. Your spiritual beleifs seem heavily influenced by judeo-christianism. Thus, they are not spritual beleifs but religious beliefs. Spirituality is, by essence, the understanding of all religions, not just one.
Just for fun, how would you define hell ? And would bad souls stay there forever ? How about animals that can be more loving than humans ? Maybe some humans, too, have no soul...
Or maybe there are various levels of souls. Young souls, old souls...Maybe stones have a soul too, just not devoloped yet...Or maybe stones are beings that have reached such a level of wisdom. They are a product of God, too...so they have a little bit of God inside, don`t they ?
Hey, at some point, they even said that women had no soul...would you beleive this?
Aurel