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Originally Posted by porchy44
According to the Church, no non-human animal would be able to experience “heaven” as defined.
But hey, who wants to tell people they won’t be spending eternity cuddling up with Rover?
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One doesn't need to appeal to the Church, Porchy, to express what she built upon--the metaphysics of Plato onward thru the 18th century. The metaphysical "hierarchy of being" that is common sense and makes the world intelligible, became obscured through materialistic reductionism and the rejection of "essentialism".
Can PETA answer, "Why are species different"? Looking at each metaphysically, we have minerals, plants, animals, man...each with further natural, "essential" powers that distinguish hierarchically. Sentience to brain and instinct, to brain and rationality, to...
PETA is egalitarianism gone wild.
