Giles Fraser talks, in today's guardian column, of feelings of ambivalence towards Jesus, children etc. Whether he is aware or not he reveals his belief in the soul, or at least the self. Speaking this way shows evidence of an assumed belief in the homunculus inside the skull. In truth, what he misreads as  a singular self with mixed feelings is but an animal with a collection of differing impulses and urges. The self is an illusion. There is no rider of the horse. Only the impulses and urges, which of course can easily contradict one another.