(November 14, 2017 at 10:32 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 14, 2017 at 10:26 am)Mathilda Wrote: What is a soul?
Once you try to define it I strongly suspect that your argument will be relying upon equivocation.
The soul is what lives on after we die. You don't believe in souls, I get that. I'm not here to argue the existence of one, so quit with the deflection. My point is your claim about us being taught that "consequences of this life are irrelevant because only God can judge" is complete bullshit. But you knew that's what my point was.
Right. So what exactly lives on after we die? Our consciousness? Our identities and memories? Everything that makes us who we are as a person minus a corporeal body? If so then when you say:
(November 14, 2017 at 10:13 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: "Only God can pass judgement" means only God can pass judgement on a person's soul. Meaning we can't condemn people to Hell.
... what you actually mean is that only your god can pass judgment based on who we are and send us to Hell.
And what criteria does he use to pass judgment? Our looks? Our wealth? Whether we chose the correct religion out of the many thousands that have ever existed? Or our moral decisions?
Regardless. When faced with the consequences of such judgment then anything that gets done on Earth is pretty small scale to the point of being irrelevant when compared to an eternity of happiness or agony.
