This does not surprise me at all and I share some of his beliefs. Arnold is a practical man in my opinion. Even though my own background in religion is Pentecostalism I've always had problems with this "soul belief" everyone talks about. Nowhere in the bible does it say a god created you with a soul. Instead it talks of us becoming a "living soul." I suppose that means you can also die and be a dead soul. The desire to live forever and never die, sewn up with beliefs of Saul of Tarsus, (St. Paul) who never knew in his great teachings if he was "in or out of his body" has solidified our modern soul beliefs.

Some say the soul weighs 21 grams but an early physician named Duncan MacDougall experimented with weighing people at death to prove soul existence. Nothing realistic came out of this. Apparently dead means dead. Throwing the monkey wrench into all of this the bible speaks of graves being opened and we go to meet Jesus in the air in the last days. A grave does not have to be opened for a non-existent part of you to escape. This means the physical body. Even the bible says that "the dead know not anything." I find that people who believe you die and are instantly in heaven with Jesus have their minds made up already. If you throw aliens into this biblical picture and want to believe that as proof you must also believe they had an ability to rejuvenate rotting and dried up things bringing them back to life. Maybe aliens invented Birdseye veggies.

Back to Arnold again, his father was a Nazi and he never even went to his funeral when he died. I'm sure Arnold loved his father but his upbringing had a lot to do with forming his present beliefs. Arnold comes out of this with many ventures and a belief in human justice for all. He is a Republican but has said that he does not understand the modern trend they are following.