Do Atheists believe that the body has a soul?

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EDIT: Heaven's Messenger, I care because I want to be well rounded. I like to learn about other religions because in a way it helps to teach me about my own. Although I don't personally know anyone as of now that is an Atheist, if I meet one I would like to know something about them instead of just thing, "Oh you don't believe in God, therefore that makes you bad." I don't judge people like that. Maybe you should get a life and stop posting answers that the question doesn't apply to you.

EDIT: Salient, I think of a soul as a part of you that leaves at death. When someone dies, their body remains, but even a child can tell that something is absent about them. That thing that is absent, to me is their soul.

Answer 1

This one believes that the body has no soul. So yes (speaking for myself).

We think there is a special "us" behind our eyeballs, but it's an illusion; and the idea of the soul is something that could detach from the body and exist independently. Atheists believe in general that our reasoning capacity it dependent on the physical body, which is why the physical deterioration of the brain results in that person becoming different, and for atheists, when the body and brain are no longer physically functioning, then the part we call our reasoning capacity (and which you call the soul) dies with the body.

Forgive Heaven's Messenger, your question was quite respectful (as was your earlier one) and deserves a resepectful answer . He's a Christian and demonstrates the sort of ill manners towards us and you that you can't imagine Christ looking kindly upon. But there it is.

Answer 2

there is not any soul first of all. that's all purely interior the strategies, that's a complicated concept considering no faith mentioned that the strategies is the place strategies and thoughts come from (they mistakenly concept it grow to be the heart, that's why religious texts communicate with the heart as a 'place' of emotion). that's some thing human beings 'have self assurance' in through fact they are in a position to't settle for the reality of their own non-existence. existence would look greater significant or happy via questioning you have a soul even though it via no ability proves that's in line with reality. Freud mentioned faith will survive see you later as human beings worry their own mortality.

Answer 3

Tell me what you mean by a soul. What experiment can you do to tell if you have one? To me a soul is just a four letter word that no one has defined in a meaningful way. How can I tell you if I have one without you telling me what it is?

Are you are asking me if I believe my mind survives the death of my body? If so, then I would have to say it depends on how many bodies I have. If reality is a quantum multiverse then maybe we have more than one body. Otherwise if we only have one body then I would say no.

I don't think anything "leaves" the body. But as I said I don't discount the possibility of our mind being associated with multiple copies of our body.

I believe our mind corresponds to the configuration of our brain. If reality is sufficiently large then multiple brains may have an identical configuration.

Answer 4

As a believer I want to say that regardless of what one believes that I'm a witness of what God's love can do for any one, any time, any where.
This is only my opinion, but it seems to me that atheists have gobs of more faith then I'll ever have as a believer.

Lets say you are walking along on a sandy beach, and you notice something shiny just a little bit under the sand.
You pick it up, and to your amazement its a genuine 18k gold watch. You put it to your ear, and its still ticking; keeping accurate time. And its simply a beautiful time piece.
Now my question to you is this....did that watch come from just nothing at all.
Or did that lovely gold watch actually have a maker of that watch?

Where do you think logically all the world, millions of other planets, stars, and every thing came from?
Nothing?

If so you've got more faith in nothing then I could ever achieve I'm afraid.

Answer 5

Most rationalist atheists would not believe that the body has a soul. There is no thought without a brain, there is no life without biology.

Human beings are no different from mice, cactus, salmon, sparrows, or bacteria. We all have a life for a period of time, but after it's over, we become nothing but a bag of biochemical goo wrapped around a skeleton.

Answer 6

The thing that is absent is that there is no more life left when someone dies. That doesn't mean that something left the body, it just means that there is nothing left alive in the body. I don't believe life has a soul, if it did than all life would have one. Trees, planets, ants, mold, dinosaurs, humans.

Answer 7

I think there are a handful of eccentrics that do but mainly NO

After all the concept of a soul was invented by primitive peoples to explain thought, emotion and life - now those concepts are understood so much better we should bin the concept of souls.

Answer 8

I'm an atheist and I believe that anything that feels emotions has a soul.

Answer 9

I am an atheist, and I have no beliefs that souls (as such) exist. I have yet to see any evidence to support the existence of souls. Have you?

Answer 10

I have to admit that my jury is still out on that one.

I would very much like to believe it is so; that there must be something that makes up the essential *you* beyond blood and tissue, but there really is nothing to prove to me that it exists.

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