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Old 10-22-2007, 10:35 AM
 
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You have to do what you feel you should as a Christian ( a no-brainer?)
Whatever the word of God says, that's your answer.
Just got back to this board and saw this.
Be careful when you're talking religion as to what is a " no brainer".
What is common sense to one group, is outrageous interpetation of the Scripture to another group.
I stopped believing in " no brainers" ie common sense a long time ago.
There are a lot of people that are practical left brainers and think animals are to be eaten, period.
They don't want to hear about animal cruelty because in their minds; there isn't any such thing.
As I said, in this world that we live in today; there is no such thing as a " no brainer."
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Old 10-22-2007, 10:47 AM
 
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Of course. So why is there wide spread abuse at slaughterhouses and animals going to market?
Statics say that over 90% of the U.S. say they're Christians, so what
do they use as an excuse?

I think you have this forum confused with the Religious& Philosophy forum;

Why is that?
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Old 10-22-2007, 10:50 AM
 
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Just got back to this board and saw this.
Be careful when you're talking religion as to what is a " no brainer".
What is common sense to one group, is outrageous interpetation of the Scripture to another group.
I stopped believing in " no brainers" ie common sense a long time ago.
There are a lot of people that are practical left brainers and think animals are to be eaten, period.
They don't want to hear about animal cruelty because in their minds; there isn't any such thing.
As I said, in this world that we live in today; there is no such thing as a " no brainer."
Good point.
Although, to me, the issue is also a no-brainer.

It is very, very wrong to abuse animals.

The "sin" question belongs in the Christianity forum because some of us here do not believe in sin, but also have a moral code.
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Old 10-22-2007, 10:54 AM
 
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You can say that again!!
Can't rep ya yet though, owe you one.
I was being a bit scarcastic with the figures. At least they see themselves as Christians; you know the numbers could be 90% see themselves as anti christian.
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Old 10-22-2007, 10:59 AM
 
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Good point.
Although, to me, the issue is also a no-brainer.

It is very, very wrong to abuse animals.

The "sin" question belongs in the Christianity forum because some of us here do not believe in sin, but also have a moral code.
Thank you frank.
The issue is animal cruelty not whether one should eat meat!!
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Old 10-22-2007, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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In medieval times the whites thought that the blacks looked more like apes than humans, so they viewed them as subhuman. How can God be black if the Christians are white, right?
Sounds like sound (rascist) logic to me.
I am not being racist, I am being speciest. I am saying that according to my faith, humans are not animals.

Are you saying that because white people later "discovered" that black people are actually human and not animals, that someday we're going to find out that dogs, pigs, fish, horses are actually humans too?


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Anywayz, the fact that man resembles God does not give him the excuse to act like God, but most Christians forget this fact.
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God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.
It has nothing to do with "Christians acting like God." Man is commanded to fill the earth, subdue it and rule over the animals.
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Old 10-22-2007, 12:40 PM
 
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Ah yes, the racism card.
If you are Christian you cannot be a racist and a racist cannot be a Christian.

It's like saying: if you are a man you cannot be a homosexual.
Therefore homosexual men do not exist.
This might have worked for the previous centuries, but not anymore.
No, it's like saying "if you are a vegetarian you do not eat meat. If you eat meat you are not a vegetarian". Tricky, when will you learn??!!

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In some countries it has been hard to come by food unless it is killed, and so I realize that it has to be done.
Yes, in many countries people do not eat animals "live"...

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Yes, but we can have dominion without abusing them. We should respect them as living beings. Don't get me wrong, I love a good hamburger as much as the next person. But I do not agree with mistreating animals needlessly.
I agree!
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Old 10-22-2007, 12:55 PM
 
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In some countries it has been hard to come by food unless it is killed, and so I realize that it has to be done.
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Yes, in many countries people do not eat animals "live"...
I believe you know that I mean that there is no vegetation, so they have to rely on animals for food.
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Old 10-22-2007, 12:56 PM
 
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Man is commanded to fill the earth, subdue it and rule over the animals.
This is one big reason why I cannot stand Christianity.

The idea of imposing dominion over the Earth and all the creatures on it is misguided and arrogant at best.
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Old 10-22-2007, 12:56 PM
 
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Are you saying that because white people later "discovered" that black people are actually human and not animals, that someday we're going to find out that dogs, pigs, fish, horses are actually humans too?
No that is what you are saying. I never said that a dog is a cat.
Although they're both animals.
Humans believe themselves supior to animals just because they have intelligence, but they are still like every other animal.

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It has nothing to do with "Christians acting like God." Man is commanded to fill the earth, subdue it and rule over the animals.
Are you telling me that God does not rule over the earth and the animals?
Doesn't everything happen because God commanded it so?

Anywayz, I see no difference between what you just post and the superiority-belief of the Nazis.
The Nazis believed that they were destined to rule the world and everything in it in a 1000-year Reich.
Just because you believe as a Christian that your truth can be the only truth is proof that you are behaving just as superior as the Nazis.
Like the Nazis you base your truth on ideology and not reality.
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