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Are MS-13 Gang Members Animals?
5/17/18 | savedbygrace

Posted on 05/17/2018 9:14:15 AM PDT by savedbygrace

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To: savedbygrace

Our enemies are laughing at us.


41 posted on 05/17/2018 11:05:58 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Bob434
Speaking of the broader image, Abraham Kuyper, Jr., writes:

I freely admit that I haven't the foggiest notion of who Abraham Kuyper, Jr. is.

(Google, google, google....)

Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and also a journalist.

Huh.

Enough for a fairly long Wikipedia article. On to the quote:

This image of God cannot be lost since, if man can lose it, he would at the moment of losing it, cease to be a human being. The image of God in the wider sense . . . has reference to the human in man, to that whereby man, in distinction from all other creatures, is man and not an angel or an animal or a plant.

Theological issues aside, the simple fact is that the set of creatures called "animals" includes humans by definition. Mammals are a kind of animal. Humans are mammals. Therefore, humans are animals, Q.E.D.

42 posted on 05/17/2018 11:18:53 AM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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[[Therefore, humans are animals,]]

False- animals were not created with an eternal soul or a free will to choose eternal life- only mankind holds that distinction- God didn’t create animals in His image- only man- No animal created has the capacity to secure eternal life with it’s creator- The dictionary’s secular definition of animals is too general- it includes mankind when it is very clear from God’s word that mankind was created separately from animal kind- man was created after ‘God’s kind’ Not animal’s kind- animals were created after their own kinds-

You can stick to your narrow secular definition if you wish- but as for Me- I was created after the image of God- not animals- While i might share SOME physical characteristics with animals, I am certainly not an animal as I possess a soul which will live in eternity with my Creator whereas mere animals will not- and Animals do not share the same attributes of humans that God created uniquely in us humans- that is what separates us from the animal kinds. God didn’t die for animals- He died for people created in His Image


43 posted on 05/17/2018 11:35:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434
You can stick to your narrow secular definition if you wish

I certainly will do so in matters of biology, just as I do so in matters of astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, etc.

44 posted on 05/17/2018 11:41:15 AM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: savedbygrace

Not animals, but vermin. Vermin have produced a career path with jobs in extermination. The MS13 vermin deserve nothing less than summary extermination when found.


45 posted on 05/17/2018 11:44:34 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: savedbygrace

Irrational, amoral human animals, the worst kind of animal.


46 posted on 05/17/2018 11:54:49 AM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: savedbygrace
animals do not generally torture other animals

You must have never had a cat.

47 posted on 05/17/2018 1:34:27 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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You must have read right over the word generally.


48 posted on 05/17/2018 1:38:51 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: savedbygrace
MS-13 animals? No, that's an insult to animals... 😀
49 posted on 05/17/2018 1:59:45 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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