| Having met a few "old" souls in my life, I would have to disagree with you on the soul issue. If this is it and this is all there really is, then why does "doing whatever you want" destroy so many families, lives, and the well-being of the individual? Thinking that we are nothing more than just another animal on this planet gets us to the point of no one striving to acheive more in their daily, weekly, monthly lifetime. No one striving to be better than they were because "we are just hairy, horny animals" anyway, right? Why try to be anything else? I do believe that religion, in general, gives a person something to strive to attain. A direction in life. Last I checked, animals really couldn't grasp that concept.
C. Bogue
"There's room for all God's creatures, right next to the fried taters!" |