See this link for how we allow cruelty to animals just by closing our eyes and not trying to find a way to prevent it.
http://www.factoryfarming.com/issues_guilt.htm
2007-09-19 05:27:16 · 19 answers · asked by americanhero_aa 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Actually the way we treat animals reflects they way we treat our selves and others.
God has nothing to do with our messed-up lives its all of our doing.
2007-09-19 05:43:47 · answer #1 · answered by MARY B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeez kid take a look at nature.
Do you honestly think God walks around punishing lions for ripping other animals apart with tooth and claw.
Life is Darwin not Disney. Wake up. Grow up. Get some perspective.
Is factory farming an issue? What's your alternative? Insist that all carnivores become herbivores? Hunt down chickens one at a time the way God 'intended'?
People do not have their 'eyes closed', most folk just don't think it matters much.
2007-09-19 14:19:21 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do humans "mess up" thier own lives
sub-consciously as a result of guilt?
What constitutes a "messed-up" life?
You've implied that there is a God and that he is vengeful. Most humans have no personal experience of abusing animals, and only consume what has been pre-abused for them.
Does "god" punish animals for killing and eating other animals as a means of survival?
Why should a god punish people who work to buy a slice of an animal to eat?
What makes a human, buying meat to sustain a family, different from a lion killing an antelope to feed its pride(pack of lions)
2007-09-19 12:54:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not like you probably envision the aswer. The answer is no. For example He made most of us in THIS time to be vegetarian. Most of us are not. All will be, it does not have to happen in a day. When people eat meat they take on "punishment" of their own free will. It does not come from the Creator. Or God. Would you
prefer that your world exist in peace and prosperity, in decency and love, in constant improvement and assured well being? This is what we in this Kosmon Era are growing toward. But this is only the beginning. You would not have this thought if the cosmic time were not early Kosmon.
2007-09-19 12:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by kasandra k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, yes... I first heard of factory farming many years ago, from a girl whose dad helped invent the thing for pigs, and I was truly horrified. I won't look at the video because I already had a detailed description, and when I got it I had already owned a pig I had loved... so I was/am outraged enough.
However God has very little to do with it. I have written this many times on YA: first that I no longer have anything to do with organized religion, second that I used to, with bible study and the whole bit.
The bible study seems to be the part that sticks in my head the most, and quotes come floating up to refer to for people who are outraged at God... God said once to a man who was praying hard for an answer to a question important to him: "My thoughts are not your thoughts."
In other words God is on a whole different level, baby, and working at things we know not of. Job also got to missing God terribly during his troubles and he declared that he couldn't "see God before me, nor to the right of me, nor to the left"...
God himself came to Job on a whirlwind and chided him for coming so close to giving up... God told Job to "gird up your loins and act like a man." KJV bible.
I believe in an eternal spirit present everywhere, an unknown that simply exists.
I don't believe any God or other Creator type is "messing up humans' lives as punishment"... for first of all whose lives are you talking about? No, I think you have to let this one go, and write a letter to your Senators, etc.
2007-09-19 12:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by LK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a very loving God and does not punish us like that it is not his nature. He is love. Any punishment you feel comes from the choices you make not from God punishing us as He gave us the Bible to base our lives and decisions by so it is up to use to choose our actions and in the end deal with the results of those actions.
2007-09-19 12:35:20 · answer #6 · answered by dinkylynn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! We're rather adept at messing up our own lives without any help. I have a dog and I don't abuse it and nobody else does either. If you have a dog, I can't tell you what to do with it; it isn't mine. Because I don't bother other people about what they do with, or to, animals doesn't make an animal hater.
Next crusade.........?
2007-09-19 12:37:55 · answer #7 · answered by Laredo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally I believe god could care less about us individuals.
he has bigger things to worry about.
So, no, I don't think god punishes anybody in this world for anything. If he did all these rich pukes in America would be punished for oppressing the lower and middle classes, poisoning the environment, and making health care unachievable.
2007-09-19 12:46:21 · answer #8 · answered by spidertiger440 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not at all.. The ppl who hurt animals are just lost and may have been abused as a child and they know no other way but to abuse..
2007-09-19 12:35:35 · answer #9 · answered by Selina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really believe that God makes our lives miserable for whatever reason she wants to, then I can get you an --incredible-- deal on a bridge just south of the town of Sausalito in California.
Doug
2007-09-19 12:55:09 · answer #10 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋