For all those religious people out there who claim that you can't be moral without God and try to argue that morality, altruism and empathy are unique markers of a divine hand in our (Human) origin, take a look at this little clip. It shows a dog rescuing another dog which had been hit by traffic, at great risk to it's own life, it's a touching scene.
I wonder which Church he goes to? (I need a canine-church pun to go here, you know who I'm looking at!)
10 comments:
That's fascinating. How could the dog care about another dog without knowing the Holy Scriptures?
Come on - it was food!
Perhaps its a case of puppy love?
CB, a doggy bag, surely not?
Steve - try this one for size.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6274502/God-is-not-the-Creator-claims-academic.html
CB, ah yes, Theology, the study of the unknowable :)
Where do these people get grants, that's the only mystery here ...
Those kind of religious people probably don't read this blog. Thankfully, they're the tiny minority of religious people. I know of one priest who claimed his dog was his spiritual director, as he could learn more about living life to the full from his pooch than from most of the people he came into contact with.
dmk, I disagree that this is a tiny minority of believers, perhaps it's a tiny minority of well educated, considerate and rational CofE clergy, but in the Bible belt of the USA and the vast majority of the Islamic world, morality comes from God and only (their own) God.
Dogs are cool though, I certainly believe in them :)
you'd enjoy MadPriests blog then. He has a dog for a patron saint. http://revjph.blogspot.com/
I choose to move my goalposts to UK Anglicanism! We obviously need a large scale international survey on this one. You really must get out more and stop spending so much time with fundies.
dmk, OK, you get one free move :) however you could be right about fundies, they aren't good for anyone's blood pressure.
Thanks for the link, now there is something slightly different! :)
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