(July 14, 2015 at 1:14 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Wait!
In what world is Jesus being sacrificed to cure sin, and animals being sacrificed to cure disease NOT comparable? Keep in mind, you guys don't even believe Jesus even existed....
Oh, just off the top of my head... Jesus was sacrificed for sins others had committed and were guilty of, he was taking the blame for actions rightly attributed to another. In the case of disease, humans are entirely blameless; nobody wants to get sick, and sickness isn't an action that, morally speaking, one should rightfully atone for, but are instead placing that atonement on the animal to take their punishment for them. So in reality there's no "redemption" in animal testing to be experienced "vicariously," because we don't need to be redeemed from getting sick, sickness is not an act that we're guilty of. The comparison is you're making is inappropriate in the very area that we're objecting to in the first place, therefore, there's no hypocrisy involved here.
This is like you going "You say you're against drunk driving, but you drive a car! Aha, hypocrite!" It only takes a little thought to realize that driving is not the part of "drunk driving" that is particularly objectionable. Likewise, curing things is not the objectionable part of the Jesus mythos; it's the nature of the thing being cured as it applies to individuals, the nature of the cure itself, and the mentality behind it, that we're objecting to. Not curing things, or even curing via sacrifice. You're making an accusation of hypocrisy while avoiding entirely the actual content of the claim you're asserting hypocrisy over.
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