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Animal Rights Sound Bites
For Conversations With Religious Christians
Souls & Judgment
CLC = Christian Lacking Compassion, AR = Animal Rights
AR: If religions are really about compassion, one would think that all truly religious people would advocate protection and compassion to God's creatures.
CLC: Animals have no souls.
AR: Revelations 4:7-8, suggests beasts in heaven, if they did not have souls, how did they get there?
AR: If animals truly do not have souls, and their existence on earth is all that they will have, isn't that even more reason to give them freedom, dignity, and bodily integrity? Ref. 2, Jesusveg.com
CLC: Man was made in God's image, animals were not.
AR: If chimps share 98% of our genetic code, then are they not 98% of God's image??
CLC: If you were raised on a farm you would not feel the way you do about animals.
AR: Let me understand what you are saying. If I was raised in an environment where animals were exploited for profit, I would be less sensitive to the suffering of animals? Perhaps, but I would like to think the experience would make me more sensitive to animal suffering.
AR: The majority of society are taught that it is permissible for animals to be exploited for profit. That is the hurdle that we must cross in order to embrace morality and compassion.
CLC: Only God can judge, you have no right to judge.
AR: I judge only with words, a meat eater judges the life of God's creatures as unworthy simply because they enjoy putting dead animal body parts in their mouth.
AR: Why is it perfectly acceptable to show on television someone picking a tomato off of a vine, pulling out a sharp knife, and slicing the tomato causing the juice and seeds to burst from the tomato; but it is unacceptable to show someone taking a baby pig or chicken and slicing it's throat and stomach? If children have to be protected from seeing animal slaughter and dismemberment, then something is inherently wrong with it.
AR: Knowing what you know about the compassion of Jesus, do you think cutting up a tomato is the same as cutting a pig or chickens throat?
AR: If we can eat plants instead of killing and eating God's creatures, killing animals and eating their flesh is not a necessary evil, it is just evil.
AR: We should substitute ethics for morals whenever it leads to a more compassionate life.
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