Bobby Bandwidth@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?message-squaremessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down113
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareAre humans the only great apes that can be "holy", or could, for example, an Orangutan be divine?Bobby Bandwidth@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squarepeanut_boy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year 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!