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Your continuing utter failure to address the actual substance of what I posted leads me to only one conclusion--that you are whupped and can't find any way to defend your poosition and are therefore just blowing out opinions and expecting them to be accepted because they come from you. A bit pompous of you, Jennifer.
How did I not address it beternun? YOU just can't take someone calling you on your silly ramblings. BTW your typing is getting a bit sloppy. I'm hoping you don't have pets because you'd be kicking them right about now. How dare someone dress down the high and mighty (in his mind) beternun!!! You don't accept anything that doesn't come from your twisted mind. Pompous? Look up pompous in the dictionary, it will have YOUR picture beside it. Again, KISS. The day you post anything of substance will surely be a red letter day on the TD forums.
Here is a reminder--I am re-posting that which I posted earlier concerning animals, Biblical teaching, and your sloppy misapplication of Scripture. You have not touched any of this, edge, side, top or bottom. You have responded to none of it with anything but unsupported opinion, which does not count in informed argumentation, discussion anmd debate. Here it is; have another try and maybe you can raise your "F" to something like a "C-." Given your pathetic performance thus far, that is about as well as you could possibly do, I suspect.
Just do this simple thing, Jennifer: try responding to what I have put up instead of barfing out insults and unsupported opinion. Last chance, Jennifer. I am through with you unless you put in some effort here to participate in the true spirit of infoprmed and rational debate. Do you have it in you?
"Yes, God entrusted his CREATION to our care, Jennifer, and His creation was wisely organized such that there was balance in nature. That balance is disrupted when mankind moves plants and animals around and installs them in ecological settings where they become injurious to the native ecosystems.
You say, "Yet, God expects the Christian, above all others, to be sensitive to all of His creation, knowing that exploiting or abusing it shows a disrespect for God Himself." It is gross insensitivity to God's environment to introduce into it non-native plants or animals that become destructive in the new and inappropriate environment and disrupt the harmony God intended in the balance of nature. Using your words, that "shows a disrespect for God Himself."
That is what has happened with Asian Carp in the Upper Mississippi River system and with hydrilla and water hyacinth that choke many lakes and rivers and with zebra mussels and a host of other introduced exotic species. And when the common house cat is loosed into the natural environments in places where it is not a natural component of the fauna, it becomes destructive of the natural system that God placed there. It kills and eats (or sometimes just kills for the sake of hunting and killing. (yes, cats do that!) small rodents and birds that ARE part of the native and natural environment.
The animals you cited in the Old Testament passages from which you attempted (and failed) to make an cogent argument are, uniformly, domesticated animals that are used by man for such productive purposes as plowing and as beasts of burden. These are WORKING animals and they are given rest from their work, Jennifer, as man is also given rest from his work. But the house cat does not fit that scriptural model. It does not do productive work, and thus has no need for rest, notwithstanding that a lot of cats I have known about spend a great deal of their days sprawling and sleeping.
I know of no house cat that contributes labor and economic benefits of its labor to the household that feeds and shelters it. You have wrested from the scriptures you have used interpretations that the contexts will not sensibly permit.
In short, Jennifer, you have made an irrational and indefensible interpretive stretch in a misguided effort to lend Biblical credibility to your felinophilic biases."
