I myself am not religious, but I got to thinking last night, what was the criteria for a thing to have a soul? Does it have to have a brain? What about braindead people? What about dogs? Plants? Living things in general? What is it that makes one thing have a soul, and another not?
God knows.
People narrate.
A soul is the life principle of a thing. If you’re alive, you have a soul.
Now, whether something has an immortal soul is an entirely different question…
In the immortal words of the Good Magician Humphrey to the manticore, those with souls are the only ones concerned about having them.