I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don't. I feel that it's quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
Souls are designed to fit inside a body.
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.