Animal lovers can not be atheists.
Its impossible. The love you feel for an animal, and how you wish to protect it, is a form of religious and spiritual calling through the DNA.
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"is a form of religious and spiritual calling through the DNA"
Messrs. Wayson & Crick would like a word with you. If you can prove them wrong, then like them, a Nobel Prize is yours for the asking.
On behalf of myself and my awesome little African pygmy hedgehog "Branston Prickles" we both say a hearty FUCK you. I think the world of my little hedgie and do all I can to give him a good life. Before Branston, I have owned a couple of cats, and even though I am a carnivore I am also a biologist and love all animals on this planet. Or if not love, highly respect. (except maybe pandas as they are fucking useless). Also where in the DNA is this supposed spiritual calling? I'd love to know lol.
Does it shock you that an atheist such as myself love animals....it does? Good.
Basically, you are talking bollocks.
I am a true atheist, as much as one can be. I also used to have a dog who I loved a lot . Who I wanted to make even happier than I could be. And as cruel as it may sound, I have more empathy for animals than for humans.
Forget saying I wouldn't hurt a fly*, twice I even went out of my way to save a wasp that was drowning in my pool. I once even carefully pulled a frog out of my yard trash so it wouldn't be scooped away and possibly died. Whenever I find a spider in my home, I very carefully grab it and deposit it back outside because I couldn't bear to kill it.
So you were saying? Honestly, I'd say we atheists are more compassionate than you fundies. You don't see us slaughtering entire ethnic groups in the name of a (non-existent) deity... You don't see us disowning our LGBT children because of something a millenium old fantasy novel says...
My parrot would disagree, since that bird is talked to, well fed, doted on & generally fawned over on a daily basis. He is quite possibly the most spoiled bird in the entire NE.
And idiots like this are why I generally prefer the company of animals over people.
No. Love (for animal or human) is a powerful emotion. Religion can be a powerful emotion, for some people. That doesn't mean they're related in any way. After all, hate is another powerful emotion, as is greed, or jealousy, or lust.
Funny. I read this while sitting comfortably, my tabby curled up in a ball next to me, having her ears scratched and back petted. I must be some weird outlier, right?
First: I have pet dog who I love very much, and I also don't believe in any deities, therefore you're quite wrong.
Second: even if you weren't wrong, and you did need to be spiritual to feel love, the assertion that that would necessarily make me a theist or deist would be a non-sequitur since one can be spiritual without believing in any deities.
Third: you don't have the faintest clue what DNA is or how it works or why.
(Somewhat unrelated, but what's with all the fundies lately invoking scientific terms and concepts to support their positions despite clearly not understanding them in the slightest? Has anyone else noticed this?)
@Philbert McAdamia ["If loving animals is a religious calling, I must be a Cat-olic"]
Well, if that's your dog-ma, then I'm sure Pup Francis is okay with it.
Atheists can be animal lovers , but not all religious people can be to all animals.
Judaism and Islam teach that pigs are unclean. Dogs too are regarded as unclean by Muslims.
Among Christians, I think Saint Francis of Assisi was the exception rather than the rule.
“Animal lovers can not be atheists.”
“Its impossible. The love you feel for an animal, and how you wish to protect it, is a form of religious and spiritual calling through the DNA.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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