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Philosopher Peter Singer has argued in publications such as his seminal book Animal Liberation, first published in 1975, that Christian thought has contributed to animal cruelty and suffering. He cited commentary from figures such as Aquinas about humanity's innate right to control the natural world as holding back progress in animal rights ...
The commandment is preceded by the instruction that a calf or lamb is only acceptable for sacrifice on the eighth day (22:26). [1] The Hebrew Bible uses the generic word for bull or cow (Hebrew: שור showr [2]), and the generic word for sheep and ewe (שה seh) and the masculine pronoun form in the verb "slaughter-him" (Hebrew shachat-u)
Severing a limb from a live animal and eating it was forbidden (Genesis 9:4), cattle were to be rested on Biblical Sabbath (Exodus 20:10; 23:12), a cow and her calf were not to be killed on the same day (Leviticus 22:28), a person had to feed his animals before himself (Deuteronomy 11:15), animal suffering had to be relieved (Deuteronomy 22:4 ...
Primatt wrote that "We may pretend to what religion we please, but cruelty is atheism. We may make our boast of Christianity, but cruelty is infidelity [i.e., unfaithfulness]. We may trust to our orthodoxy, but cruelty is the worst of heresies." [7] Primatt held that pain is evil and humans have no right to inflict it on animals or each other. [1]
For Kant, cruelty to animals was wrong only because it was bad for humankind. He argued in 1785 that "cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened." [49]
The agency investigates 6,000 animal cruelty complaints annually, rescues more than 1,100 animals and has a 90%-plus conviction rate in Franklin County Environmental Court, according to Columbus ...
David Noel Freedman, ed. (1992). "Zoology (Animal Names in the Bible)". The Anchor Bible Dictionary. Anchor Bible Series. Vol. 6. New York, London et al.: Doubleday. pp. 1152–1157. ISBN 9780385193511. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Souvay, Charles Léon (1907). "Animals in the Bible". In Herbermann ...
A new small study suggests that athletes will perform better if they soak in a hot tub rather than a frigid one, especially if there are breaks in their workouts.