Grim and awful, the whole thing. Just one sick story in the scenario of animal torture in laboratories.
I don't believe a lack of compassion for other living things is going to reap a heavenly reward.
"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Proverbs 12:10
"Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds." Proverbs 27:23
"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast." Psalm 36:6
"For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine." Psalm 50:10-11
"And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?" Jonah 4:11
Grim and awful, the whole thing. Just one sick story in the scenario of animal torture in laboratories. I don't believe a lack of compassion for other living things is going to reap a heavenly reward.
You're absolutely right about that.