Posted on 04/18/2023 3:03:44 AM PDT by spirited irish
Item: An article at The Humanist calls for “expanding humanism to clearly and robustly include sentientism.”
The new word there needs explaining. It begins with granting “moral consideration” to sentient beings other than humans. I quote now from the article:
The most obvious candidates for moral inclusion are animals other than humans. While scientific debate continues on the margins (sea sponges, for example, are animals with no brain or nervous system), it’s clear that most animals, particularly those we farm in the trillions, are sentient. If we care about suffering and flourishing then it’s sentience, not species membership, that matters.
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Good article.
One thing that I have realized is that transgender evil is all about rejecting God and created nature and setting ourselves in the place of God by trying to create ourselves and claim complete dominion over created nature. Remember the first sin…ye shall be like gods.
Transgenderism is genuinely evil and can destroy the world.
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“If we care about suffering and flourishing then it’s sentience, not species membership, that matters.”
It’s human, and non-human, when you get right down to it. We make the rules in terms of how we husband the remainder of the planet and what’s on/above/in it. No more tomfoolery please.
You are so very right.
Just this week I had someone try to ask me what gives me the right to think I am better than animals and think I can kill them to eat them. She questioned that as I am a Christian, how could I do so. I have to admit that I bumbled out an answer as best I could, but reading this article today I found it has a wonderful way of explaining it, and these words jumped out to me…….
“ What makes us so special, and who are you to say so!? I have no problem with the question. God Himself made us special, and I don’t need to be anyone to say so, because He Himself said it. It’s really quite a straightforward, slam-dunk answer, and once it was widely known, but now even believers often feel uneasy with it. Humility before the rest of creation demands that we not elevate ourselves above the rest, so humility before God demands that we explain to Him how He had no business elevating us so. (I trust you see the magnitude of the mistake there.)”
Genesis 9:1-3 NASBS
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. [2] The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. [3] Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant.
I value humans moreso than dolphins, orcas, and elephants, (and dogs) but I wouldn't kill them to eat them when there is other food available. They demonstrate a level of intelligence and emotion that should be considered in how we husband the Earth's critters.
Crows also demonstrate some intelligence, but you can kill those. Kill all you want. I wouldn't eat them, tho'.
or humans.
“Just this week I had someone try to ask me what gives me the right to think I am better than animals and think I can kill them to eat them.“
I’d ask her right back - what gives those animals the right to think they’re better than me - to want to kill and eat me???
As a Christian, we follow Gods word, where He clearly gives man dominion over ALL the earth.. including animals who were NOT made in HIS image..
..so you got THAT going for ya….
Gunga-galunga!
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