but I do think God meant for us to be good stewards of HIS gifts, one of them being the animals that inhabit earth with us....
I agree we should value the earth as God gave it to us but I’m not sure the Bible says anything about exactly what our role to animals is .....I really do not know.....
it’s not something that ever came up when I was a boy at Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson Mississippi 40 years ago.
a culture where everyone hunted....like I still do but I eat what I kill and don’t kill predators unless I had to
i have no doubt some folks today value their Yorkie more than your average teen girl has been taught to value life in her uterus.
today many worship the environment.....hence Global Warming’s attraction....the is no behavioral code for Mother Nature worship except worshiping her as an entity....this is not new....it’s like we have gone back from the new story he got from Judeo-Christianity and have regressed to paganism......Celts, Goths , Canaanites, Edomites.....I think it is the wrong direction
thanks for your thoughtful post...