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Is there an afterlife? If there is, then we must have what is called a soul.
Not necessarily. One of the Enlightenment philosophers (I believe that it was Thomas Hobbes in
Leviathan, but I'm too lazy to look it up to make sure) believed that humans were completely material, and that the afterlife would consist of God resurrecting the physical body. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a shared belief by other thinkers at that time.
"Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt
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