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@cjd @Bernard @tio @trom
Do Catholics not believe in a separate soul, and thus race not existing on the soul level means it cannot exist on the physical? It sounds like Catholics believe in separate souls, but that heredity doesn't exist with each human body being uniquely crafted AND not crafted according to observable heredity. If humans are uniquely crafted, but with similarities to their parents, race exists.

Even if we have separate souls from the physical, if our physical bodies modify the expression of those souls, which would need to be the case to match what we observe, then in terms of this world heredity groups still exist and matter.

From a spiritual perspective that cares about the spirits inhabiting this world, denying race would be evil. It would be like denying the reality of a cripple because his brain is the same, which would do a lot of harm by preventing people from dealing with his situation appropriately.

It is not possible for a spiritualist who loves all souls to deny race and its consequences in this world. His love would prevent doing such an evil act.

Any separate "you" or chance you might have been born an African would be irrelevant.

>Firstly, if you accept that logic then there's a 99.999% chance you would have been born a speck of bacteria.
If bacteria doesn't get same the category of thing that "you" are, then "you" could not be born as one.

@cjd @Bernard @tio @trom
Saying humans are all one race completely goes against the branching nature seen in all things. It isn't even just evolution on the species level. As mountains erode, so can the physical components of reproduction be changed, whether current gene theory is even accurate or not. You will end up with branching groups whose differences need to be accounted for one way or another.

To deny this is to deny everything we know about nature on a fundamental level. It would be an absolutely massive and game-changing thing with widespread implications.

Disproving that humans evolved up from single-cell organisms would be much less disruptive than whatever would be needed to explain away the lack of significantly different groups within humanity.