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For the tortured animal, religious justification means nothing.

In Reply to: The importance of relationship with one's God posted by Nikhil Jaikumar on December 04, 1999 at 00:28:18:

Human rights may be paramount to animal rights, but human rights do not justify animal abuse, and no matter how you try to justify it -- honoring one's god, fertility ritual, harvest sacrifice, casting out demons, the abused animal still suffers and dies; religions which readily subject animals to pain need to reform or disappear. We need to move beyond the dark ages.

By the way, your analysis of my motives is dead wrong. It has nothing to do with my religion, or lack thereof; it has to do with my opposition to cruelty to animals. If you really feel that tehtering an eagle so it can never fly, and then slowly smothering a bird to death, is a basic human right, then yes, you and I part company entirely on this. I fight for human rights, but not for the right of humans to torture animals.

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