Bobby Bandwidth to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • edit-22 years agoAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?message-square83fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down112
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?Bobby Bandwidth to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • edit-22 years agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-square@peanut_boy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink4•2 years agoI would say that a species intelligent enough to believe in God could be divine. So I don’t think orangutans or gorillas would be, but we have archaeologic evidence that Neanderthals had some form of religion, so they may also have souls.
I would say that a species intelligent enough to believe in God could be divine. So I don’t think orangutans or gorillas would be, but we have archaeologic evidence that Neanderthals had some form of religion, so they may also have souls.
Interesting perspective!