Praise The Lord and Pass The "Ammunition"!

by Ms. Jade, TheDogPress Legislative Reporter
 

Parliament of Spain (the country renown for deadly bullfights) will consider a resolution that grants higher primates (apes, chimpanzees and orangutans) the same rights to life and freedom as humans. It is likely to pass, making Spain the first nation to set a legal precedent for furthering the animal rights “guardianship” agenda in other countries. It would also pave the way for the elevation of other nonhuman species (like dogs, cats and farm animals) to similar legal status. Animals could soon become “wards of the state”! This proposal has the support of The Green Party, the Socialist (PSOE) Party, Greenpeace Spain, and after serious back peddling, the Catholic Church.

The basis for the resolution stems from Peter Singer’s The Great Ape Project. You may recall that philosopher Peter Singer is the mentor of PeTA cult leader, Ingrid Newkirk and author of ANIMAL LIBERATION. The animal rights anarchist movement may have started "across the pond" but it has spread like a disease to our own shores. Watch Europe closely for a preview of our future.

Peter Singer also proposes that Adam and Eve were vegetarians, that "the fall" of MAN from the garden was the responsibility of a woman and an animal and that only afterwards did the eating, wearing of and sacrificing of animals occur for which God punished the "wickedness" with Noah's flood. He criticizes the new testament over the Old, for lacking any injunction against cruelty to animals (don’t even get me started on how the Bible was actually compiled...try Insights for the age of Aquarius by Dr. Gina Cerminara ) or any recommendations to consider their interests (even though Old Testament condones animal "burnt offerings"). Singer maligns Jesus for hurling swine into the sea, St. Paul for saying God does not care for oxen, St. Augustine for writing "that there are no common rights between us and the beasts and the trees", St. Thomas Aquinas for saying (among other things) that the prohibition of killing does not extend to nonhuman species and roots this immoral attitude in a preference for the philosophy of Aristotle over the more righteous thinking of Pythagoras.

According to Singer, "Christianity left nonhumans as decidedly outside the pale of sympathy as they ever were in Roman times." And "not only did Christianity fail to temper the worst of Roman attitudes toward other animals; it unfortunately succeeded in extinguishing for a long, long time the spark of a wider compassion". He coined the term speciesism to describe Judeo Christian superiority over animals. He criticizes Pope Pius IX and also the contemporary American Catholic Church for endorsing the belief that "(Man) is permitted to use things below him in this order of nature for his proper needs". And Singer goes on to state "Catholicism discourages concern for the welfare of non human beings". Peter Singer even calls out St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals because his "love" for birds and oxen did not stop him from eating them or advocate for the abstention of meat! He does, however, lavish praise upon Renaissance astronomer Giordino Bruno for his assertion that "man is no more than an ant in the presence of the infinite". Although Rene Descarte’s own girlfriend found his mechanistic philosophical grandstanding laughable, Peter singer blames the vivisectionist fallout on Descarte being a Christian.

I wonder if the Church would like to reconsider their new endorsement?

Ms. Jade

Reference: The Scotsman - Scotland's National Newspaper Online

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