Here's one for you. It probably won't be a surprise, but it really strikes me as if it should be. April 18-26 is World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (WLALW for short) was established as a national week of protest. Seriously ... a national week of protest. Organizations around the country, from commercial laboratories to universities, are gearing up for this event. Expect protests, to be sure, but be prepared for violence, aimed primarily at ... humans. The stated goal is "to fight for the animals that are imprisoned in laboratories". They want all animal testing stopped.
There are no alternatives offered. There are no ways suggested whereby scientists can safely test drugs for human consumption. They simply demand that testing with animals be stopped. I can only guess that if you want to test your AIDS cures or your diabetes remedies or your drugs to eliminate cancer on humans, by all means. And they don't mind at all using the existing medicines and other products that were obtained by animal-testing methods. Just let those poor animals go!
I find it stunning that there are so many who now hold animals as more valuable than humans. It's reverse speciesism. It flies in the face of standard Darwinian Evolution which praises the survival of the fittest. And if you try to suggest that God has made humans in His image, you're the lunatic. I find it amazing that these same people are generally perfectly happy with embryonic stem cell testing and even abortion. Kill the babies; that's okay. Just let those poor animals go!
As this kind of thinking (I use the term loosely) grows, it becomes more and more apparent that sin rots the brain. We have gone beyond Paul's "Phase 1": "Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things" (Rom 1:22-23). We've easily surpassed "Phase 2": "Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen" (Rom 1:24-25). Too many in our society have reached the third level: "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done" (Rom 1:28). Welcome to the asylum, where the inmates run the show.
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My daughter goes through this struggle intensely. First, they are doing things differently with the younger generations than previously. Look at how many teenagers are overly sensitive about animals?
Further, my daughter is working hard to keep at minimum a 4.0 GPA in high school so she can pursue vet science with scholarships. She LOVES animals, but she also has a common sense that many of her peers are missing about the value of animal life vs that of human life. Everybody assumes she would love PETA, but she finds them to be ridiculously extreme.
Yet, even in that...I notice when she watches movies, that she tears up at hurting or dead animals, but if a human is grieving or dies her eyes are dry. How did this happen? Where/when did they get her on their side?
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