How many times have you heard this line: "God put animals on earth for us to eat..." ?

Question

How many times have you heard this line: "God put animals on earth for us to eat..." ?

Answer 1

Only once in person, but it was offensive enough to last for a lifetime of those comments.

And a million times on this forum.

Answer 2

Far to many. In my opinion God put us here to survive.  If we don't eat them that's our choice too. I'm vegetarian and I believe that the way animals are treated is terrible. I think that people should realize their comments will not change our good ways =]

Answer 3

God can suck my ****.

Answer 4

Wayyyyyy too many times. I have a lot of very religious friends and they all try to convince me to eat meat for that reason. Then there's the related "Well if we're not meant to eat them why are they made of meat?" This one is just plain stupid. They're not made of MEAT, they're made of muscle, tissues, organs, all that stuff that we humans are made of.

Answer 5

Only here on yahoo.  I'm blessed to live in an area where God is a black vegan L*****n.

Answer 6

If that were the case, then why did he make Adam and Eve vegetarians?

The only reason he gave us permission to eat meat was because after the flood all the vegetation was wiped out, and we had no other choice.

But I'm sure his plan did not include placing pain and suffering on his creatures.

If he gets upset when he sees human beings treating each other badly, why wouldn't he get upset when seeing humans treating animals badly? Animals are God's children too.

"Our father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the moth, the english sparrow and the common brown rat, must have a great and overwhelming love for no goods, blots on the towns and bums."

-from 'Cannery Row' by John Steinbeck.

Answer 7

GOD said, "and he shall have DOMAIN over ALL the animals of the earth", meaning man, meaning they were put here FOR US TO USE.

Answer 8

too many times to count. But not just on yahoo. My parents even think so. It drives me nuts! It's the worst most illogical argument against veg*nism I've ever encountered. Who says we all believe in god anyway?

Answer 9

All the time, so annoying.

Answer 10

I actually am a Christ follower and pescatarian and when God created the earth he told Adam and Eve to eat of the garden and to take CARE of the animals.  We were supposed to live in harmony with them, it was only because they disobeyed God and ate of the tree of knowledge that all of that changed.  So He allows us to use the animals to survive now but it is not what he wanted.

Answer 11

so many effin times!!

its really annoying

Answer 12

not much and its ssssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooo not true!!!!!!

Answer 13

i hear it all the time and its annoying. people are sooo condescending if they truely belive that. its like saying "God put people on this earth to polute it and to kill everything"

Answer 14

I found that in the real world I have never heard this statement, but on Y!A! that's another story.

I can't help but roll my eyes(and smile a bit) at this naive statement. I think many people fail to realize or forget that the this statement would apply to only 30% of the worlds people and  of this 30% of the worlds population that is Christian there are probably many that don't feel this way.

For someone like me, this statement means nothing. I feel as strongly in my belief that there is no magical higher power, as the people that feel that there is. I also think that any God that condones the killing of any creature(in the way that people go about it) is not one that I would want anything to do with.

Its always funny that most people only use religion as an excuse to justify actions that they want to do, and completely ignore most other things(that are not to their liking). I would love to know what percentage of these people follow everything else the bible says to a T.

Answer 15

I hear it daily, from both family and friends. It gets quite annoying, and is not true. Genesis talks about animals as companions. Yes, it does give man the choice to do with them as he pleases, but that does NOT make it right to hurt them from the day they were born and feast on the carcasses like some ravenous beast.

Answer 16

Amen, sista!