Bobby Bandwidth to No Stupid [email protected] • edit-22 years agoAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?message-square85fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down114
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 [email protected] • edit-22 years agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•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!