Many animals mourn their dead whilst elephants appear to have rudimentary funerary rites.
I'm not saying elephants have some sort of religion, but remember, we are animals too. If we have imaginations, then "animals" can have imaginations. There is literally no reason to believe that other animals cannot develop the mental capacity to think abstractly like humans have evolved to. Only if you believe humans are somehow "separate" from animals (a very religious perspective, which is insidious, even if it is only because it is subconscious) would you think humans are capable of ideas, as if separated by some sort of divine Providence.
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Many animals mourn their dead whilst elephants appear to have rudimentary funerary rites.
I'm not saying elephants have some sort of religion, but remember, we are animals too. If we have imaginations, then "animals" can have imaginations. There is literally no reason to believe that other animals cannot develop the mental capacity to think abstractly like humans have evolved to. Only if you believe humans are somehow "separate" from animals (a very religious perspective, which is insidious, even if it is only because it is subconscious) would you think humans are capable of ideas, as if separated by some sort of divine Providence.