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Word a day
speciesism (SPEE-see-ziz-uhm,) noun

The assumption of superiority of humans over other animal species,
especially to justify their exploitation.

[Coined by psychologist Richard D. Ryder (born 1940) in 1973. From Latin species (appearance, kind, form), from specere (to look). Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe) which is also the ancestor of such words as suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), espionage, despise, telescope, spectator, and spectacles.]

"At one point in Darwin's voyage to South America, James Moore told me, the naturalist stopped in Brazil, where his blood ran cold to see slaves in manacles being tortured by Catholic traders. Darwin was enraged as a Christian, but also as a scientist, because he recognized that the slave trade relied on the false notion that slaves were a different, inferior and exploitable species.
"Upon his return to England, Darwin extended the idea to the way people treated animals, an early precursor to Richard Dawkins's argument about speciesism. 'To say man is the pinnacle of creation and all things were created for him ... Darwin says that is the same arrogance we see in the slave master,' said Moore."

Shankar Vedantam; Eden and Evolution; Washington Post; Feb 5, 2006.

So what did Charlie do about it?

The most un-christian thing that he could have done. Instead of agreeing with God that he was every bit as bad as the slave traders, as deserving of eternal incarceration as any one of them and indeed every one else, and begging mercy from God; he distained what Christ did.

So what do we do?

We exploit the notion that all life is equal and bring down what really is at the apex to the level of a random act of chance. We are each an ignoble pile of crap – worth less than a single quark. Face it, if God is not the creator of everything (but Himself) there is no cause for anyone to feel lonely or worthless. You really ARE O with the line erased ! Stop trying to find a meaning to life – there is none.

If you look in God’s book of death you will not find the name of Jesus there. He did not die as Himself. Your name will be entered in the book if and when you appropriate His death as your own. That is THE only way that there is ANY possibility that a new name could EVER be listed in the book of life. ‘I am crucified with Christ never the less I live’. When I begged mercy from God and I died, He recreated me with a brand new start all over again life – and a new name. I owe Christ everything.

Had Charlie been a Christian he would have known that evil is real and anyone who has Not been ‘born again’ is it. We can be because God made us morally responsible. Without that capability there would be no such thing as love ! How much love could Charlie have had for God when he didn’t think that what Christ did was worth it? On what basis could Charlie have been so enraged. He himself originated the idea that we are all less than nothing, being nothing but a meaningless glob of glop. Charlie must have had some left over remnant of some kind of moral conscience to be able to feel rage – BUT WHERE did he get it from ? ? ? When he dreamed up evolution he erased the possibility that there are degrees of good better or best or worse and worst – didn’t he? Of course he did. How could any one honour him with the title Christian? Christian MEANS that there ARE degrees of better and best and that God was on top and then those of us who are created in His image ! Charlie called it arrogance “to say man is the pinnacle of creation and all things were created for him” BUT where did Charlie get the authority to call me arrogant? I MUCH agree that the world and all that is in it IS NOT for us to exploit but I DO NOT agree with Charlie when I agree with that statement !

Think about it. Charlie had no basis whatever for using the concept of exploitation. If and since everything is nothing – even using the word evolve is nothing but using a warm fuzzy connotation that is itself meaningless. NOTHING has evolved ! ! If evolution is true then it does not exist. Last time you used the word you thought of it as meaning “getting better” or “getting more complicated” or “growing” or any combination of the three, didn’t you? WHY?

God provided the only rational behind thinking and feelings. It is not arrogant to believe that God made things the way that they are. God is NOT responsible for man’s inhumanity to man – or inferior life forms. He is responsible for love. Without moral responsibility you would be a non feeling autonotron, is that what you want? It certainly is not what God wanted.