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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by squidlogic on Friday September 18, 2020 @12:48PM (#24519027)
One response from the Christian tradition is that humans are creatures made in the image of God with rational, moral, and spiritual faculties. Other animals lack these faculties. Furthermore, we are decreed to be stewards over the created order by divine command.
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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by hyper_reality on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:08PM (#24519251)
Christianity decrees its followers to be stewards over the created order, but outside of some small groups, there's no major tradition of vegetarianism in Christianity, nor any particular care for ecology and sustainability as is practiced in many other religions.
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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus by UncleOxidant on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:18PM (#24522803)
Because stewardship of the earth got translated into dominion over it and that became the dominant narrative in a dominant branch of Christianity in most of the world (Evangelicalism).
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