“No, they do NOT have a soul.”, she answered matter of factly.
“So, there is no afterlife for them?”, I asked.
I was thinking, we share a meal, sleep on the same bed, play inside the house on a rainy day and fight on some occasion. How different can they be?
I was in the a freshman in high school then. I don’t really know, but some how, my religion teacher lost some sort of credibility when she said that. How can heaven NOT include my pets? A place of bliss without my cats? Now, that’s a land of make-believe.
The next class after that was Math.
The topic: Lines
Two straight lines that does not intersect (even if you extend it for miles on end)
That was how my Math teacher defined parallel lines. Are my pets and I like parallel lines? Living hand in hand paw, but will never really meet in the end?
That’s just plain sad. I think I like perpendicular lines better. 
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Fly for Icarus 
Nah, that’s just nonsense. Your cat will tell you that too.
One “purr” was enough to convince me =^_^=
If cats have nine lives, how many souls do they have? 🙂
haha i never thought of that! The afterlife would surely be overcrowded.
not wanting to step on religion lines, if you want to hear another take on this subject; Fr. Roderick answers a child’s question “do animals go to heaven?” in this episode of The Break (which is a culture and news podcast hosted by a priest)
http://thebreak.sqpn.com/2012/07/05/bfr-843-vatican-ii-firefly-and-do-animals-go-to-heaven/
I was very (pleasantly) surprised to hear his new take on the subject 🙂
Thanks narami. I’ve visited the site but was not able to play the podcast due to some problems with the pc I was using. Hope I can find the time to listen to it soon. Thank you in advance 😀