Just to set the tone here...I do not believe in modern day dogma Gawds. I don't even wish to label myself agnostic or atheist because labels are stupid. I prefer to believe that I am simply an open-minded person, greatly aware of science and physics and biology, and I'm perfectly content with what we truly know instead of making up stuff. Supposedly, all creatures are Gawd's creatures...right? Whether it be man or monkey or woman or a fish...right? If all creatures are supposedly Gawd's creatures, then all creatures must abide by the same set of creation and spirituality and life after death, etc. If the above represents today's religious dogma, then why does man kill Gawd's creatures for simple reasons like to eat them? Why does man kill dogs and cats, not to eat them, but simply because man declares there are too many of them? If it is perfectly okay to euthanize a dog or cat; why isn't it okay to euthanize a human? If an alien spaceship arrived on Earth, and these aliens enjoyed eating humans, and they started killing and BBQing humans for dinner, since WE do this today with pigs and chickens and beef, etc., I'm guessing this would be considered okay? Either all and everything is Gawd's creatures or no living things are Gawd's creatures! We can't have a double-standard...can we?
Actually.. we are taught that MAN has dominion over all the creatures of the earth... not that we are all equal.
So only humans have spirituality and life-after-death? All other creatures on Earth are there for the taking, for the kill, not needing to exhibit any compassion? Please explain why many people bury their dead animals? If they're just hunks of meat, why don't they eat them? Finally, 'dominion' has nothing to do with the question in the OP about euthanasia. Dominion is about 'control' or 'rule' or 'dominance' and no way does dominion give someone the right to kill. If you place one human and one lion in a cage, which one do you suppose will have dominion? When the lion kills the human, since the lion has 'your' dominion, does this mean the lion had the right to kill the human?
No one said anything about animal cruelty.. you are jumping to conclusions and putting words in the mouths of others, because your claim of equality of human and animal life is embarrassing... Nothing in scripture.. Dominion over animals in scripture is about responsibility.
Yep God created man in jis image for our spirits to inhabit, we are the only creatures with souls - and the only creatures on Earth that worship God. When you eat a salad - you killed the plant. You savage. Let us all know when: #1 - You actually want to address what we teach and believe. #2 - Explain to ne how sceince and religion, darwinism, are in complete agreement about the eating of animals. #3 - what sort of God would create a being and then give him no method of sustinance? Is this what atheists do, rhetorical question? Sit around and come up with strawman argeuments about our faith that are not even accurate, and then, when corrected, continue with the twisted diatribe anyway? Who exactly is the screwed up one? You don't believe that? Oh well, let me tell you why you do and why it makes you a moron anyway? Are trolls naturally attracted to atheism? That seems a more fitting question.
Yep only man has souls - you should look this stuff up before you rail against us. This is batant hypocrisy BTW, and does nothing but highlight the lack of standards and self worship of far too many atheists. If we say no, all things have souls -- we are savage murders who have turned our back on God and killed his creation - savages! If we say yes, then we are failing to acknowledge God's creations and somehow are guilty of the exact same thing - so what if God states that these thing were created for us and not to feel guilty about eating them? BTW - most of teh animals killed are not buried - remember that the next time you go into a McDonald's. Now, how many times have I pointed out the atheist tendancy to bash others by comparison? As if putting other people down makes them good people? And tell me atheist, do you eat? Because if you do, you are disrespecting the great diversity of ife and the infinite possibility of life - overtly intereferring with your savage tendancies in NATURAL selection and introducing your ARTIFICAL selection - you are an abomination to nature. YOu see, we can do it to you as well.
I didn't say anything either about animal cruelty? I'm curious how you KNOW that humans and animals are not created equal in terms of Gawdly-like stuff? I'm also curious about my question about the aliens...did a Gawd create them?
Genesis 1: 16 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Does anyone find it interesting that some Gawds look like some humans? And that only some humans look like some Gawds? This would indicate that intelligent life living anywhere in the Universe(s) will look exactly like Earth humans. Unless of course some Gawds only have jurisdiction for Earth or some Gawds create different looking beings on other planets. I was looking at da Vinci's Last Supper picture recently and couldn't help but notice there were no Blacks, or Hispanics, or Eskimos, or Neanderthals?? If all humans were supposed to be made in the image of one of the Gawds, then what explains all of those who don't resemble a White Gawd? Back to the thread...Margot, do you know how many times your quote above has been changed/modified? Do you know how many of the ~300 recognized religions in the world don't agree with your quote? A quote from a contemporary Bible provides no evidence of anything...
