Posted on 12/16/2011 7:29:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Oh! I though he was describing human fetus abortion. Actually he is describing the murder of human babies, just not intentionally. Which yields the obvious question, "How is it moral to protect animals and not protect human babies?"
The USA is a moral nation...NAZI Germany wasn’t. Agreed on steaks though...had one last night.
PETA or any of the animal-rights nutballs could have penned that tripe.
An intelligent dog can recognize about as many words as a human child 2 yrs. old. Do you think children, because they are inferior in intelligence and responsibility, are less worthy of protection than adults? Dogs and some other animals display a loyalty to their human companions beyond that of most humans. There is a Christian argument for kindness toward beasts: we are their superiors, and have been entrusted with their welfare by our common creator. There is also a materialistic, evolutionary argument: our Neolithic ancestors rose out of a desperate existence because of their ability to nurture and raise domestic animals. They survived because the animals in their care survived. Therefore love of animals is hard-wired into normal human beings. I would never trust anyone who was not affectionate toward and grateful toward animals.
Which leads to my next question: are you familiar with the sort of tripe that PETA spews?
no sane person supports animal cruelty or unnecessary suffering
Yes, as is every other sportsman, hunter, and shooter in the world.
Concern for the welfare and dignity of animals is such an issue, associated with nihilist leftists such as Peter Singer and local totalitarians who seek to regulate pets out of existence. But one need not believe that animals have been endowed with all the rights of humans to insist that they are more than a commodity that tastes good.
I agree 100%. There's something wrong with a person who doesn't love animals. And while they (animals) aren't people, neither are they robots. And most importantly of all, they were created by G-d for us.
It isn't just the Left that has co-opted love of animals. The European anti-Semitic Right also has a long history of nature worship and attacking Jews as "alienated from nature." This despite the fact that it was the Jewish G-d Who created nature in the first place!
The proper treatment of animals is addressed fully in Noachide Halakhah (one of the Seven Laws forbids eating a limb cut from an animal while it was still alive). All this being said, it remains a truism that it is forbidden to add to these laws as secularists do.
Very well said. And though I know you did not say this, it’s ridiculous to accuse someone that is uncertain of whether or not the Lord chose to endow a dog with some type of everlasting quality as a person who doesn’t “take our religion seriously”
On some level everything that G-d has created knows Him. This was universally understood before the Left co-opted animals and nature.
So what we interpret with those puppy dog eyes as love is something more associated with feeding and ease rather than an inate love for another kind.
Anyone who has ever had a pet knows that his pets love him.
Irony is that hunters are usually the best friends you'll ever see to non game animals.
Conservatives, by nature, are empathetic. So we not only treat our own animals well.
We also wish humane practices toward work animals and food animals during slaughter.
The bible indicates in Proverbs that mercies, even to animals are character qualities of a good man: “The righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The liberal, however, or statist, is cruel to humans and is found to be not less so to animals.
Think about it.
As a hunter, sportsman, and shooter . . . I would hope that you didn’t suffer from knee-jerk reactions so terribly.
I resent the implication that if I do not become a vegan and support the right of snail darters to sue in Federal Court, I don’t care about animals and endorse the idea of animal cruelty.
I am making a covenant with you and your descendants, and with the animals you brought with you — all these birds and livestock and wild animals. Genesis 9:8-12
“For every animal among the trees is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills” (Psalm 50:10-11 NLV)
“Why did you beat your donkey those three times?” the angel of the Lord demanded. “Look, I have come to block your way because you are stubbornly resisting me. Three times the donkey saw me and shied away; otherwise, I would certainly have killed you by now and spared the donkey” (Numbers 22:32-33).
“In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that move along the ground. Bow and sword and battle I will abolish from the land, so that all may lie down in safety.” (Hosea 2:18)
No reference to animals having souls and yet God still makes sacred covenants with His creation.
Saving an animal from tragedy? What was the Ark for or was Noah stupid to ‘save the animals too.’ Noah was told to save the animals...what were we to learn in the action?
Surely the verse from Hosea describes something? What might that be?
'Amen!
And for clothing as well. Animals may be harvested just as plants may be harvested, provided it is in accordance to G-d's Laws.
It is forbidden to add to or subtract from G-d's Laws.
I am pro hunting and fishing and abhor animal cruelty.
‘Amen!
Exactamente!
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