Very wonderful thread, indeed.
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Personally I'm not religious, these people made me wonder about a few things. Many religions, and Christianity in particular, believe that human beings have some sort of a soul.
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I am not religious, although I accept & respect all.
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For people who believe in the soul, it seems that a possible definition of murder would be the willfull killing of another being which possesses a soul. My first question to you religious people out there is whether that is a reasonable definition.
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Yes and no, because you are not killing off the soul. You are assisting the human form to cease living.
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[/b]My second question is: At what moment is a person endowed with a soul? Presumably there is no soul involved before fertilization, but there is one at birth. Sometime in between the soul must be introduced. When do you believe this happens? At fertilization? At viability? At birth?[/b]
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My spirituality consists of knowing that I am the Soul walking the earth in physical form. i.e. the saying:
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." We are
always the Soul. Existing eternally, but that we transorm into a physical being to experience Who We Are as Souls, as part of the Whole, but in a seperate experience in which we
can experience anything and everything.
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Clearly this discussion is closely related to the abortion debate (at least it is for certain religious folk), but I'd prefer to keep the focus on the particular issues I mentioned. Please try to keep your posts on topic.
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You are correct. I stay away from this subject, though.