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Originally posted by Lebell
I'm not trying to be irritating here, but this really doesn't make sense to me.
I thought that the primary arguement atheists have against God is that you can't prove He/She exists (wasn't it you with the purple Llama analogy?)
How is believing you have a soul any different?
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Sorry, just to clarify, I wasn't putting forward MY belief. I don't believe in a soul or a god.
But I don't see the two as insperable.
There are plenty of atheists...i.e. they don't belive in a God, who believe in a "mystical" soul, that cannot be explained by physics/biology. This belief is reffered to as mind/body dualism. And is essentially the belief in a soul.
Similarly, you could perectly well claim that a conscious being (God) created the universe, but dodn't give you an immortal soul, i.e. there is no afterlife or reincarnation.
Also, as people have mentioned, the restrctiveness of the options, I would put forward that we need an option to distinguish between an "immortal" soul, (i.e an afterlife/reincarnation whatever) as opposed to a soul completely tied to the physical body. i.e. dead body = dead soul. (Most atheistic mind/body dualists would believe in the latter type).
Further more, you would claim that the reason that you believe in a God is due to experiential evidence. You have expericed things which make you convinced that
a)You have a soul,
and
b)that god exists.
Is it inconcievable, that someone could experience something which allowed them to come up only with a?