Balaam’s Donkey and Animal Minds August 10, 2016 Numbers 22:21-35, “So Balaam rose in the morning, saddled his donkey, and went with the princes of Moab. Then God’s anger was aroused because he went, and the Angel of the Lord took His stand in the way as an adversary against him. And he was riding […]
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I read this book last year and just reviewed it last week. This is a book intended for an academic audience but it is not difficult to read. It deals a lot in philosophy and specific Jewish questions of meat and slaughter which particularly intrigued me. Description The springboard issue is a famous 2004 incident when an animal-rights group
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Any dramatic action in the United States nowadays will bring out anger. American anger runs so deep that any perceived injustice can trigger riots or provoke poisonous words. As a Christian, I am sad to see how Christians react to these tense times. The latest incident to arouse passions came in a very unlikely
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This is a good book by a Christian discussing the subject of wildlife captivity in zoos. Because the author worked in zoos for many years, he has experience there, and interviewed some co-workers and a director as well. On page 25 he gives a good summary of his feelings about zoos. “Like many other people,
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Technically, I think bugs are supposed to be six-legged beings, but I will use the more popular parlance, where bugs are anything creepy and crawly, and including small flying things that are not birds or bats. In Genesis chapter one God created them as living things that creep on the ground, and in that sense
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