Tuesday, May 26, 2009

What's the difference 2?

The second thought was that we (probably just our culture, but possibly others also) are leaning more and more toward eliminating the separation between animals and people. It is a logical conclusion since "science" is proclaiming we are merely an accidental change from some animal (which I challenge any and everyone to find proof of - it won't be found) .

Perhaps that is why we lean more toward therapy than punishment in our justice system. After all, we wouldn't hold a dog accountable for killing a bird. It's nature. However, a dog could be trained not to kill a bird. But that counter-argument dismisses the fact that no person lives strictly in the moment as animals do. We think ahead and we plan actions. We remember and we plan actions. We rationalize and we plan. There are times that we fail to use our human abilities and don't think ahead (which is almost always a bad, bad thing), but that is the point. We can choose to act like animals, but animals cannot choose to act like animals. To us alone did God give the decision to behave or to not behave.

2 comments:

  1. I encourage you to go listen to some of the sermons from our church whenever you have a chance! We had a long series where we talked a lot about this...look under "I don't have enough faith to be an athiest" Very interesting!! :-)

    http://www.trinityyukon.com/p/15950/Default.aspx

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