{"id":255,"date":"2008-06-11T23:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2008\/06\/11\/ShouldRequirementsOfBiblicalForgivenessExtendToAnAnimal.aspx"},"modified":"2008-06-11T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:32:51","slug":"should-requirements-of-biblical-forgiveness-extend-to-an-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Should requirements of biblical forgiveness extend to an animal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, it sounds like a simple question: let’s say your animal does something to piss you off. <\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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You make it very obvious to the animal that what it does was wrong (in psych speak you say “I’m a person, and I have feelings, and what you did really hurt me” – or perhaps you just kick it…). <\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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Then, the animal does it again, deliberately, obviously, purposefully, as if to say “I’m an animal and I’m going to do what I like”.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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So, if this animal was a person, you’d be obligated to show compassion on it (for at least 490 times [7*70 for all you mathematically oriented people]), before you could wax it.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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So, I’m wondering – do we actually have to forgive an animal 490 times too? <\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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I thought about this long and hard (for all of a couple minutes) – and realized that the answer was an obvious “No”.<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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Therefore: <\/SPAN>I’m sending my dog to the meat packers!<\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P>
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Ok, it sounds like a simple question: let’s say your animal does something to piss you off. You make it very obvious to the animal that what it does was wrong (in psych speak you say “I’m a person, and I have feelings, and what you did really hurt me” – or perhaps you just … Continue reading “Should requirements of biblical forgiveness extend to an animal?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}