RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?
November 29, 2017 at 10:09 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 10:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Easily. There -are- autotrophic life forms on this planet. So, presuming some divine creator..it knew how to do that - and chose not too. More to the point, assuming creation at all assumes magic, and it wouldn't need to create autotrophic biology to achieve the purpose. Magic book goes to great lengths to propose exactly this, and then blames the -massive- failure of the design on a jumped up chimp. Because that's how shoddily the lord of the cosmos built his house. The guy couldn;t be trusted to make a zoo enclosure.
The creator of this world, barring incompetence, inherits responsibility for it's shortcomings. If someone builds a substandard house that predictably falls down on the heads of the occupants "it's the best house I could build, can you build a better one" means jack shit. Truth be told, the state of this world is a better argument for a malicious deity than an incompetent one..because some of the suffering is just too creative to have been accidental, if there was any intent behind it at all.
Go directly to jail.
OTOH..that's not how -any- of it happened, and the processes by which it did happen -are- categorically incompetent of being held to any moral standard.
The creator of this world, barring incompetence, inherits responsibility for it's shortcomings. If someone builds a substandard house that predictably falls down on the heads of the occupants "it's the best house I could build, can you build a better one" means jack shit. Truth be told, the state of this world is a better argument for a malicious deity than an incompetent one..because some of the suffering is just too creative to have been accidental, if there was any intent behind it at all.
Go directly to jail.
OTOH..that's not how -any- of it happened, and the processes by which it did happen -are- categorically incompetent of being held to any moral standard.
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