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Animal Rights Sound Bites for Conversations with Religious Christians
Dominion
CLC = Christian Lacking Compassion, AR = Animal Rights
CLC: Gen. 1:28, God gave man dominion over animals
AR: Dominion means stewardship (responsibility to protect), not permission to torture, abuse, and kill for pleasure.
AR: I've never understood how God's dominion is expressed in love, a King's dominion is expressed in stewardship, but Man's dominion is expressed in exploitation, torture, abuse, and killing.
AR: I would not allow someone to baby sit for me if their interpretation of dominion means permission to torture, abuse, and kill simply for pleasure.
AR: Man has stewardship and is the care giver. That is why Noah was instructed to provide safe passage for non humans during the flood.
AR: Hosea 2:18, "And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them lie down safely
AR: We are supposed to be guardians of God’s creatures similar to how the church looks over and protects statues and works of art or a security guard looks after bank assets. God’s creatures are not ours to use, but ours to protect.
CLC: Look God put animals here for our use, a good example is Gen. 3:21: "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them."
AR: The text of Gen. 3:21 says nothing about killing animals for their skin. Those animals likely died of natural causes and the remaining skins were used as clothing. If you are able to interpret the bible in a selfish manner, I should be able to interpret the bible in a compassionate manner.
CLC: Animals are here for our use.
AR: Animals are here as a test of our compassion. When we reach a point when we no longer exploit them, then we will have achieved the grace of God. The prophet Isaiah (Isa. 11:7) spoke of a time in the future that peace will be evident among animals as well as among men. "The cow and the bear make friends, their young lie down together. The lion eats straw like the ox. ...They do not hurt or harm, on all my holy mountain, for the country is filled with the knowledge of the Lord.." Ref. 1, Page 15
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