With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

Recently, the Guardian published an oddly intriguing article entitled The Case Against

Pets is a time to give up our cats and dogs, though arguing from the perspective of the

animals, what the author actually did was make a powerful observation about humans.

As one expert quoted in the article put it, quote, the level of emotional dependence humans

have on their companion animals is different from any time in the past.

Of course there's nothing wrong with having pets, it's a way of fulfilling the creation

mandate.

The problem comes when pets replace people, something that's increasingly common in a

culture like ours where people struggle with meaningless loneliness and missing families.

Blaze Pascale once wrote that the infinite of this can only be filled by an infinite

and immutable object, not himself.

See God created us first to need him, secondly to need other people, pets come in a distant

third.

If we get the order of that creation wrong, it just doesn't work out like he intended.

For The Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.