Ecological Futility and the Incarnation

When I was younger I never wanted to hurt anything or for anything to be hurt. I tried to stop other boys from torturing bugs and shooting birds for amusement. As a young man I got into fights over another man’s treatment of his pets. My ignorance accounted for most of the harm I would [...]

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Dialogue: Religion, Science, & Human Sacrifice

But science is a humane undertaking. It is religion that is responsible for immense human suffering.
One word: vivisection.
You’ve got to allow that we’ve made some progress. It’s not like we do that anymore.
Two more words: human testing.
Huh?
The Department of Energy’s radiation experiments. MKULTRA. Eugenics. Tests on POW’s.
OK. But those are isolated events.
Really? How many isolated [...]

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Gaia and Animal Rights

It is easy to expose the weak underbelly of the “animal rights” idea. After all, the conception of “rights” is uniquely human, and so depends on humans to conceive of and apply to animals. It means that without humans, animals can have no rights, and so are subordinated to humans, having only the animal rights [...]

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