Posted on 08/06/2015 4:04:26 PM PDT by SMCC1
"There is a healthy and an unhealthy love of animals: and the nearest definition of the difference is that the unhealthy love of animals is serious. I am quite prepared to love a rhinoceros, with reasonable precautions: he is, doubtless, a delightful father to the young rhinoceroses. But I will not promise not to laugh at a rhinoceros. . . . I will not worship an animal. That is, I will not take an animal quite seriously: and I know why. Wherever there is Animal Worship there is Human Sacrifice. That is, both symbolically and literally, a real truth of historical experience."
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The fact that airlines indignantly refuse to ship animal trophies but compete for the business to ship Planned Parenthood’s baby parts is all you need to know about modern values.
Very revealing. Thanks for posting.
There are a lot of FReepers who need to take this to heart, as they have an unhealthy love (worship) of animals.
but,but,but...Cecil!
Give me G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis anytime for practical wisdom and the complex made plain. Thanks, SMCC1.
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