The humans who believe animals are just tossed away away are shallow and obviously have either never had a close relationship with an animal or they have been brainwashed by leaders of their so-called shallow Church.
And yes, I think all Christian Churches--Protestant and Catholic--are only grasping at the tail end of the Truth that is God (just because God is so incredibly large He is hard to comprehend...hard to bring down to human explanation).
God is--and His Heaven is--so much more than we have been told by our well-meaning but error-filled teachers.
Humans are pathetic when they try to tell us about God and Heaven...and sometimes they are worse than pathetic, because they see that subject as a means to get what they want...as a will to power.
Beautifully said. And I agree.
When my late rottweiler was dying of liver cancer, we had her blessed by our priest. He actually thanked us for bringing her to him, and said, “She’s a beloved family member, and I sure would like to believe we see our pets in Heaven...”
He then proceeded to tell her all about Heaven and St. Francis, and wouldn’t you know it, she suddenly sat up very straight, and strong, and listened intently to him. Something in her told her she was listening to something very important.
To me it’s very telling that Islam hates dogs, and finds them “Haram” or forbidden.
To quote another freeper, I’d like to end up in the Heaven where my dogs are. It wouldn’t be heaven otherwise. But I have so many acquaintances who insist to be experts on Heaven, and are even so bold as to claim they speak for God.
My take is — it’s too large for my brain to comprehend. And I don’t dare speak with any knowledge of it.
I find it’s good to remind myself all religions and philosophies are man made. Religions in particular were formed to not only give spiritual guidance from a source greater than ourselves but to also keep large numbers of people in line. It was soon learned it could be a great source of income as well so churches, temples, and mosques could be built.
Like all things man made; these religions were used by unscrupulous people for self-gain. We see the Catholic church going through a major scandal with a bad Pope. This didn’t happen over night. It developed over hundreds of years. I’m just surprised it has taken this long to erupt. It did it before and the church assured everyone it will never happen again. Apparently all they did was shuffle priests around to make it look like they fixed it.
These days I take all religions with a grain of salt. I believe they can be a good way to teach the young to know right from wrong but it can also harm them as we’ve seen.
Again; they are man-made so like anything humans do - there can be corruption involved.
Dog is God spelled backwards.....’nuff said!