Stop using Bible Verses to Hurt Others

I don't know about you, but I'm awful tired of people lifting quotes out of the Bible to justify their political thinking.


It seems for some folks that if among the pages of the Old and New Testament they can find a single sentence which backs them up, they conclude they are right and you're wrong. Of course, they forget the remaining portions of the Holy Scriptures, for they have found their biblical needle in the haystack to justify their argument.


As a dog owner I'm partial to dogs. My Cardigan Welsh corgi, Miss Daisy, is pretty darn special to me.


When I see on CNN a program about training pit bull terriers to fight to the death, it sickens me. It must take a really perverse person to train dogs to engage in such conduct.


The same goes for training roosters with razor blades attached to their claws to kill other roosters. It is equally as stupid and offensive.


Legislation to ban such conduct shouldn't be controversial. A contention that the interstate movement of chickens might be inhibited by banning rooster fighting is mind boggling.


We have seen children killed or maimed across this nation by pit bull terriers trained by their sick owners to be overly aggressive. Children are easy and primary targets of the dogs.


Whether a ban on breeding pit bull terriers is the answer is highly questionable. I'd rather place a ban on the breeding of human beings who find such activity to be a sport and engage in its promotion.


Unfortunately other breeds are also trained to engage in similarly ferocious behavior. It's not the breed but the human being owning and training the dog that's the problem.


Last week readers of this paper's letters to the editor learned that ideas such as mine expressed above are contrary to biblical verse. A reader wrote: "According to God, we as people have the right to use animals for the purposes we see fit.''


To support that proposition, the writer cited Genesis 1:26-31 as authority. The writer babbled on about a conspiracy by the Humane Society of America ("out to get us all''). He stated if we didn't believe him we could go to the Internet to find support for his proposition.


Well, I certainly wouldn't equate the Internet with the Bible. The Internet is one of the greatest collections of garbage and ignorance created by man. Which, of course, is not to deny that much knowledge exists on the Internet. There is a good deal of hate mongering within its confines, not to mention pornography.


Clearly some animal rights advocates have proven themselves to be extremist and a few even terrorist. To argue that "we as people have the right to use animals for the purposes we see fit'' is an extremist position. Does the writer of the letter support sodomy with animals? No, Genesis doesn't support the letter writer's position.


In Genesis I:25, God speaks of the creatures he made and "saw that it was good.'' Further verse 31 says everything that he had made "was very good.'' Surely one cannot read scripture and conclude those "good'' creatures of God's making should be trained by humans to kill one another.


To quote the Bible to advance extremist positions offends scripture, just as extremist Muslim terrorists offend the Koran and Mohammed when they cite the Koran to justify the taking of innocent lives by suicide bombers.


Isn't it about time we stopped using religion and scriptural verses to beat others over the head?

[starbuck]

not a s urprise I think your post is 100% correct

Not really my post bub. Just borrowed it. After reading it and thinking about a few things, well it kind of hit me, a lot do this.
I could probably use verse after verse to stir things or cause problems. But what is the use? Honestly you don't win no one by humiliating them or hurting them.

[starbuck]

you know what? My neighbor has a pitbull and it is one of the sweetest most well behaved dog's I've ever seen.

[Jason]

The Bible should be used for helping and not hurting others. That post hits the nail for sure. Animals were made to be our companions and/or a source of food. Some wonder why so many are pushed away from God. Good post LPDFTBL! [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]