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- From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Fundamentalist Nightmare
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.185618.5751@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 18:56:18 EST
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- In article <adams.722381228@spssig>, adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- > sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >
- >>In article <adams.722198596@spssig>, adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >>> <EXG106@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >>>
- >>>>I just wonder: can an animal sin? (I mean animals aside from humans)
- >>> No. Animals are not 'free, moral agents.'
- >>>
- >>>>The reason I ask this is because homosexuality exists among other animals just
- >>>>as it does with humans. Are these animals sinning as well? Will they also
- >>>>go to hell even though they have no concept of this human insanity we call
- >>>>religion (to our present knowledge )?
- >>>
- >>> Animals do not go to heaven or hell and do not have souls.
- >>>
- >>> -Steve
- >>
- >>How do YOU know that? Prove it.
- >>
- >>Sue
- >
- > Being as the existence of heaven and hell are unprovable, that particular
- > part is certainly unprovable.
- >
- > Being as the existence of the soul is unprovable, that too makes the above
- > unprovable.
- >
- > But, if we take the Bible as the basis for the argument, then the statement
- > stands. Man was the only creature created in God's image and with a soul.
- >
- > -Steve
- > --
-
- But that is just YOUR opinion and belief. Those of us who are not Christians
- think otherwise.
-
- Sue
- > The opinions expressed above are those of the author and not SPSS, Inc.
- > -------------------
- > adams@spss.com Phone: (312) 329-3522
- > Steve Adams "Space-age cybernomad" Fax: (312) 329-3558
-