RE: Christ's birthday
October 28, 2009 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2009 at 5:34 pm by Violet.)
Quote:Are you a vegetarian, Craveman?Not that relevant to his point
He (God) slaughtered everything around Sodom and Gomorra for instance... that would include innocent 'deer in the forest'... who were simply not as favored by 'God' as were the humans. The bible doesn't even MENTION the non-human animals residing in and around Sodom and Gomorra...And it turns out that other animals are just as alive as us... many of them feel pain just like us... a handful of them even have the ability to recognize their reflection. It is preposterous that other creatures don't deserve many of the rights we have... after all: how will we explain this barbaric and little controlled animal consumption to the aliens? Or will those aliens decide that we taste just right?
Simply... we need to reconsider our approach to other animals native to our planet, lest we look like hypocrites and/or appear barbaric to other advance lifeforms, part. significantly advanced ones. I personally favor eating according to abundance and controlling populations so as to avoid population crashes [efficient long-term resource management](Humans have passed this limit already, and considering that birth rates have mostly been increasing: might have to suffer one of these themselves before they finally 'get' the concept)... but there are several other decent methods for changing our approach to the issues (and how we interpret them).
@Rhizo: ever heard of the flood?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
