Why do many christians refuse to acknowledge that they are animals?

Answer 1

Because they don't like being lumped in with the rest of the creatures on the planet. They want to feel special so they deny facts. Remember how they behave. They're rather like adults that haven't grown up yet. Think about it. They rely on this fictional scarey god to tell them what to do because its much easier than relying on themselves and their brains. It means they don't have to take responsibility because they will be "punished" for doing things wrong the way that a parent will punish a child.

Its disturbing.

Answer 2

Because they can not understand anybody or thing that claims to know god better than they do, including the possibility that a god may have created other things in his image as well. If they did, then they would cease to be special - and that would niggle their little egos.

Its the same with non Christian men (and women, they are not chosen, so what chance do animals stand. Of course having such a narrow knowledge base as the Bible, it is difficult for any hard core religious follower to understand anything that has a science concept. The process of rational thought applied to observation is not something that comes naturally to anybody who has had their every thought dictated.

What chance does Darwin stand, against such a closed mind.

Answer 3

Probably the same reason that non-Christians refuse to acknowledge that they are animals also.

Answer 4

Many Christians believe in intelligent design, hence there are people, animals, and plants.

Answer 5

We are animals (mammals to be precise), but we are the only animals into which God has breathed life (soul) into. Because we have the life of God in us, we are called to more than just animals.

Man is the only animal that can be more of who he or she is. A cat or dog cannot be more of a cat or dog, but a human can be more of a human.

Answer 6

Ecclesiastes 3:18-19 . . . 18I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that

they themselves are beasts.

19For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts,

even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and

man has no preeminence above the beasts;

for all is vanity. 20All go to one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. (ACV)

Answer 7

Probably because they think that animals are soul-less and don't want to be associated as something that has no soul.

Answer 8

Because it says in Genesis 1: 24-27

And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

But you don't believe that do you?

I challenge you to read the Bible before you dismiss it.

Answer 9

I agree w/ Ivan, we were made above all creatures Try
Gen. 1:26,28

Answer 10

Becasue Atheists think they're Chimps and the religious don't see it that way.