Posted on 01/26/2012 3:23:17 PM PST by texas_mrs
“If you read about our creation, since our source of food was supposed to originally come from plants, and only plants, it’s obvious that God’s original intents did not involve taking an animal’s life for any reason.”
The above is precisely my reason for my previous post. To assume that Man may successfully and accurately determine what is in the mind of the Divine is, by definition, a act of notable hubris. Just because the Garden of Eden’s beasts were vegetarians, tells us nothing sufficient to arrive at your conclusion.
“If His original intent was not to take a life, then there will come a time when it will no longer be necessary.”
The “If” at the beginning of that sentence is where we disagree. What is done by minor critters in no way compares to the acts of a God.
In short, I fear that all too often our seeing moral issues in the most mundane acts of non-humans (I lump collectivists in with those beasts) is projection. A cat simply kills. Sometimes rapidly, sometimes slowly while it plays with its prey.
To assume moral value to the cat’s acts is akin to assigning moral value to the lunch choices of Libtards in the Big Sh*tty restaurrant. Both are merely apetitive choices, animals feeding.
That difference is why German has two destinct words for the act of eating. “Essen” for humans, “fressen” for animals.
Did I confuse Libtards with animals - no, it was deliberate.
;-)
The unnecessarily taking of a life is what makes it regrettable, but necessary. Yes, it may be an old bull, or whatever, but it is still taking a life.
Yes, it does contribute to the health of the heard or species, but there’s still something a bit sad about that regardless.
Call me soft, but that’s the way it is.
Adultery is a form of sex, an immoral kind.
As I’ve already pointed out, there is moral hunting (using the animal as complete as possible) and immoral hunting (poaching or just trophy hunting and letting the rest of the animal rot).
Yet, 50 million human babies have been killed, and they just throw the remains in the trash.
Abortion is an unquestionable evil.
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