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Your biblical interpretation is despicable, Gotch.
Posted by: MDG on November 19, 1999 at 10:28:37:
In Reply to: Pardon the vernacular, but they ain't got no rights! posted by Gotch on November 19, 1999 at 00:38:48:
: WHERE do animals get rights? They were provided for our use, pleasure, and food. Pardon the vernacular, but they ain't got no rights?I know you mean, God gave us animals to do with as we wish. I hate your God, Gotch. Where do you think you get rights from, eh? WE give them to you, we, your fellow human beings, and we'll damn well take them away from you if we feel like it. The Romans nailed Jesus to a cross because they believed he did not have the right to be free from torture. Whites decided to not to grant rights to blacks, and then after an immense struggle, decided to grant them after all. It's all human affairs, Gotch, and if we humans decide to grant animals the rights to be free from torture and other harm, then those animals will have rights, despite what you say your particular brand of God declares. I'm not a Christian, but I firmly believe that Jesus would never have condoned the abuse of animals and then were he alive today (sound familiar?), he'd be a sign-waving, non-leather wearing, tofu-eating in your goddamned face animal rights militant, and you know what, he'd face the same sort of ridicule today for that principled stance as he did 2000 years ago when the Romans mocked him for preaching compassion and mercy to one's fellow man (or for that matter, as anti-slavers faced from bible thumping slaveholders who cited their Book as justification for whipping that black boy into submission).
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