RE: A "meta-argument" against all future arguments for God's existence ?
March 4, 2022 at 3:51 am
(March 4, 2022 at 1:23 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Blame Descartes (and his immense influence) for making consciousness and soul synonymous. I wouldn't blame Ferrocyanide for embracing that paradigm. It's a decent paradigm to embrace.
When people today talk about the soul they usually mean "person's inner character, containing their true thoughts and feelings," as you will usually find in dictionaries
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c...glish/soul
Of course, some people believe that it survives after death, but how it is not known.
And it seems that the idea of soul originated from the idea that when the ancient man cremated dead bodies, they thought how the smoke coming out of the body is a soul going to heaven.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
