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In Defense of Animals Part 4

Các khả năng và các vấn đề của "tôn giáo và động vật" có thể được nhìn thấy trong sự so sánh sau đây. Trong Sách Giáo Lý sửa đổi, ban hành vào năm 1994, Giáo Hội Công Giáo tuyên bố, "Động vật, giống như thực vật và những thứ vô tri vô giác, là tự nhiên dành cho lợi ích chung của nhân loại trong quá khứ, hiện tại và tương lai." | 5 Religion and Animals Paul Waldau The possibilities and problems of religion and animals can be seen in the following comparison. In its revised Catechism issued in 1994 the Catholic Church proclaimed Animals like plants and inanimate things are by nature destined for the common good of past present and future humanity. Contrast this assertion with the following from the popular Metta Sutta recited by millions of Buddhists every day Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son her only son so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings and loving kindness towards all the world. Religion is a notoriously complex area of human existence. Nevertheless it can be said quite simply that the record of some religious institutions in defending animals is one of abject failure often driven by extraordinary arrogance and ignorance. Yet at other times religious believers have lived out their faith in ways that have been fully in defense of nonhuman lives. This more positive view has across place and time been common. Engagement with lives outside our species has produced for some religious believers an understanding that other animals are the bringers of blessings into the world. Some believers have also held that some nonhuman animals are persons in every sense that humans are persons and even ancestors family clan members or separate nations. Life forms outside the human species have regularly engaged humans imagination at multiple levels and thus often energized religious sensibilities dramatically. Because of this one does not have to look far to uncover positive connections between some forms of religion and concerns for nonhuman animals. The links between these two are in fact unfathomably ancient. Our remote ancestors were fascinated with nonhuman lives and the origins of human dance musical instruments art and even a sense of the sacred 69 Paul Waldau have been tied directly to the fascination that our ancestors exhibited regarding the .