Not to my knowledge, no. One's soul and their life-force - that which makes them themselves, as an individual - are considered to be generally the same thing; the conscience, or indicator of one's morality, is something else entirely. One's life force can be removed through the use of certain practices or rituals, and condensed into something tangible.
Obviously that sort of business is entirely forbidden, as a practice, but I've seen it done.
But "everything happens for a reason"...? The only way that applies at all in that situation is the most obvious, cause-and-effect-related way possible. Someone decided to murder a woman, hence the woman was murdered. I don't understand how a matter of faith and religion is supposed to justify that, much less make anyone feel better, though perhaps I'm misunderstanding - is that meant to imply that whatever God they believe in saw some sort of reason to condone the murder of that woman for an arbitrary higher purpose? Because that sounds more sadistic than comforting to me.
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Obviously that sort of business is entirely forbidden, as a practice, but I've seen it done.
But "everything happens for a reason"...? The only way that applies at all in that situation is the most obvious, cause-and-effect-related way possible. Someone decided to murder a woman, hence the woman was murdered. I don't understand how a matter of faith and religion is supposed to justify that, much less make anyone feel better, though perhaps I'm misunderstanding - is that meant to imply that whatever God they believe in saw some sort of reason to condone the murder of that woman for an arbitrary higher purpose? Because that sounds more sadistic than comforting to me.