Questions & Ethics: How Should Christians Respond When Animals are Viewed as Children?
The Russell Moore Show
Russell Moore
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🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:47.0 | Post your free job on LinkedIn.com slash select today. Russell Moore. I am here with Dr. Moore this morning and he has an interesting question |
| 1:14.3 | for us today. You know I was talking to a couple of veterinarians the other day Daniel and |
| 1:19.2 | they were at the Gospel Coalition meeting and they said we have an ethical question for you. |
| 1:24.2 | They said we were veteran areas, we're Christians and we have a lot of people who come in and |
| 1:29.2 | they have a dog or a cat and they're treating this pet like a child. And so what they're treating this pet like a child and so what they're wanting are really |
| 1:36.5 | extensive medical procedures that these veterinarians said that they they |
| 1:41.6 | really would be much better off euthanizing this pet rather than spending |
| 1:46.2 | all of this money on that. |
| 1:47.4 | And so they said, how do we handle this as Christians when we're working as veterinarians out there in the public square? I thought there was a really good thing. as a sort of downgrading of children in some parts of American culture and with that comes a |
| 2:08.9 | raising up of pets to the level of children. |
| 2:13.0 | And sometimes I think what we as Christians want to do when we see that sort of thing |
| 2:18.8 | is to ridicule it. |
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