Martin Luther, upon seeing a dog, whose tail had been mangled by a wagon wheel said: “Take comfort, small friend, in the Resurrection, you too shall have a little golden tail.” Martin Luther, Letter to J. Goritz, 1544 “I beg you to show kindness to animals. The very least you can do is to putContinue reading “Church Fathers on Animals”
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If He offers nourishment to the birds…
If he offers nourishment to the birds, will he not offer to humankind food to nourish them? If those who do not labor find food, will not people find food, to whom God has given both the wisdom to work and the hope to enjoy it? God made all animals for humankind’s sake, but heContinue reading “If He offers nourishment to the birds…”
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