Well, the RC Church taught us that animals did not have souls like humans, so it didn't matter what happened to them. If they died off, so what? As a kid I did not like the sound of that, but that was what the nuns taught us. So that lack of a soul let the creator off the hook.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin