Logic says that the human concept of the soul is a side-effect of evolution. Everyone knows the desire to survive assists in evolution. Most creatures don't want to die, so believing that after death there is a new life waiting for us fills our desire to survive.
I don't know if we really do have a soul or not. How could anyone confirm or reject it? I think it's strange that the universe created us as seperate entities. Everything I perceive is being done through my brain, and everything everyone else perceives is done through a collective "you all." I just think that's crazy. But I'm not going to gamble by devoting myself to one school of thought, whether it be no belief in a soul, Christianity or Buddhism, I'm comfortable in just not knowing.
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