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Animal Rights In Spiritualism

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Animals have souls - They are a source of eternal light and love on the earth--the closest that we will ever come to the Infinite Light on the earth. But why don't more people realise this? Because they (animals) cannot speak for themselves, and because as humans we think we have power over them. I have warned people...that the hereafter considers cruelty to animals a much worse offense than cruelty to another human being. Because they are often smaller and have to rely on instincts rather than education to get by in life, the energy, love and light they exude is cherished by the Infinite light..." -- George Anderson, "The Eyes of God"
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ... Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering
~Rev. Andrew Linzey
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This page has been created to bring about an awareness of the fact that animals are not only able to suffer on a physical, mental and emotional level, just as we are but have a spirit capable of love, thought and survival over death
MUST SEE VIDEOS:
'A Cow Runs for Her Life'

Featured in this video is Harold Brown, who was once a farmer and is now an Outreach CoOrdinator with FarmSanctuary. org - please also watch his tear jerker story 'A Farmers Redemption' below.
A FARMERS REDEMPTION
Spiritualists, Christians and other religious people, usually live their lives through teachings of love, peace,kindness and compassion and yet what is loving or compassionate about factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals live miserable lives and die violent, bloody deaths? We cannot think that because they have a lower intellect than ours to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh, or use them for sport, science, fashion and entertainment.
What Great Spirit worth its light would divine a law that favoured one species at the expense of another? Because we have entered bodies with greater brain capacity than that of some other animals, we have a duty to protect and care for them where it is needed
So, where limited intelligence cannot be used as an excuse to inflict torture, society will look for a blessing to absolve itself of all wrong-doing…. in religion. Most faiths have a lot to answer for in this respect, for their denial that an animal has a soul implies not only that it has little sensitivity to pain and fear, but adds weight, in their follower’s eyes, to the belief that its life is pointless beyond one of servitude to homo sapiens.
Others suggest that these creatures do have a soul but know they are here for human benefit, gladly giving themselves as a sacrifice for our good. Tell that to the cow who walked five miles, searching frantically for her calf who had been taken away to slaughter, the turkey, living in a crowded shed with no windows, suffering painful joints due to the way it is bred for the Christmas dinner plate or the laboratory animal living in near darkness, having a fit after being force-fed drugs through a stomach tube. It may be true that most of these victims do not bear a grudge (and it is this selfless virtue that is picked up by some psychics who put forward this theory) but that does not mean they accept the horrors we inflict upon them
~ words by Elissa Rattigan Animal Rights In Spiritualism (A.R.I.S)
ANGELS OF MERCY..
How can that which is cruel be right? How can that which causes pain, inflicts torture, be right? It is contrary to all that we teach. It is wrong to experiment on those who are not capable of resisting.
Your world cannot produce remedies for the diseases which it has created by living contrary to the laws of The Great Spirit. There will be found remedies for all your diseases but they will not be found by experiments on animals.
~ Extracts from both the teachings and philosophy of the renowned guide SILVER BIRCH regarding animal abuse
Speciesism clogs and constrains and distorts our outlook just as tenaciously as racism and sexism.... partly this is a reflection of their own insecurity.... The fascist is a very weak person pretending he is very strong. He wants to convince himself (as well as others) that he is not the inferior creature he fears himself to be. Such psychological cripples need crutches and they often use racism or sexism or indeed speciesism for this purpose. For example, those who choose to become lion-tamers or big-game shots, as well as some herdsmen and hunters - a proportion follow these occupations because they like to play god with other creatures. By subjugating Jews or women or "vermin" into an inferior position such people manage to make themselves feel a little bit more superior and more secure~Richard Ryder

REFRENCES/RESOURCES:
* Animal Rights In Spiritualism (A.R.I.S)
* Spiritual Campaign Material
* WWW.BBC.CO.UK/CHRISTIANITY & ANIMALS
* WWW.ALL CREATURES.ORG
* WWW.JESUSVEG.COM
* ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT EARLY CHRISTIAN VEGETARIANS
* Animal Liberation Front-Jesus Veg
* Christian Vegetarian Association
* Christian Animal Rights Effort (C.A.R.E)

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Religious and spiritual convictions, ethical concerns over the right to kill animals when alternatives exist, and just plain compassion for other living beings compels many to pass on meat~ Frankie Avalon Wolfe

Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally clever individual have a right to exploit the less clever individuals of his own species? To say that he does is to say with the Fascists that the strong have a right to abuse and exploit the weak - might is right, and the strong and ruthless shall inherit the earth~Richard Ryder

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman~Joseph Wood Krutch

True benevolence or compassion extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation ~Joseph Addison 1662-1719

If [man] is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practise kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals~Immanuel Kant

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty ~James Herriot

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants~ Gandhi

We have enslaved the rest of animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form ~ William Ralph Inge

Killing is a denial of love. To kill or to eat what another has killed is to rejoice in cruelty. And cruelty hardens our hearts and blinds our vision, and we are unable to see that they whom we kill are our fellow brothers and sisters in the One Family of Creation ~ G.L. Rudd

Cruelty to animals is as if man did not love God ~ Cardinal John H. Newman

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit ~ St. Basil (AD 320 - 79)

We pray on Sundays that we may have light, to guide our footsteps on the path we tread. We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, and yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead ~ George Bernard Shaw

Eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion ~ Mahaparinirvana

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger after sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service ~John Jacques Rousseau

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet ~ Albert Einstein

Even though Genesis says that God gave man dominion over all animals, we can also construe it to mean that He merely entrusted them to man's care. Man was not the planet's master, merely its administrator, and therefore eventually responsible for his administration~Milan Kundera

I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be allowed to be violated any more than those of humans ~ Jimmy Stewart

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil~Dr Albert Schweitzer

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?-George Bernard Shaw

I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being ~
Abraham Lincoln

For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love ~ Pythagoras

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace ~ Albert Schweitzer

The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged the way it’s animals are treated ~ Ghandi

One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines~Kingsley Martin

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself~James Anthony Froude

Animals of the word exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men~Alice Walker

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