“Equating animal ‘intelligence’ with human consciousness is ridiculous. Even a dolphin knows that.”
Anthropomorphism
In America, the hypocrisy is that dogs and cats have been anthropomorphised to such an extent, many consider these pets, “family”.
Dog meat, a staple in many parts of the world, would be banned here for nothing other than senti-menty reasons.
God being a perfect being is difficult, if not impossible to reconcile with biblical expressions of God's anger, revenge, the exacting of punishment that "displeases" God, all of which demonstrate a loss of control, lack of discipline.
Eventually it has come to mean the imbuing of, interpretation of emotion in behavior of non-human, inanimate objects, which can not be validated without having the subject ascertaining the mental state that emotions cause.