The War on Animals
The Bible Calls Animals Smarter Than Humans
Even a small sparrow counts... Luke 12:6 "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God."
Animals not only sense the world better than we do—they often live more in harmony with it. The Bible calls on us to observe and learn from them, yet we rarely do. We ignore their instincts, their emotions, even their suffering.
If we truly listened to animals—not just their warnings about nature, but their cries in slaughterhouses—we might see the world, and our choices, differently.
What would happen if we extended the respect we have for their wisdom… to their lives?
Seagulls tend to stop flying and take refuge at the coast if a storm is coming, which helps us to predict when a storm will be coming.
"Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD." (Jeremiah 8:7)
The Chinese earthquake that killed more than 12,000 people was predicted by a mass migration of frogs. Animals tend to seek safety long before the human knows what's coming. When the humans were still living amidst nature, it was easier for them to recognize natures signs. Nowadays, when most people are forced to live in boxes of concrete, they have lost every contact they use to have with nature, and its animals.
Job 12:7–10 "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds
in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will
teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you."
Live a life that reflects your true beliefs
We often hear phrases like "humane slaughter," as if the violent taking of an animal's life could ever be kind or just. But consider the absurdity: would anyone accept "humane rape," "humane child molestation," or a "humane holocaust"? These ideas are rightly rejected because the harm they describe is fundamentally incompatible with humanity or compassion. So why do we accept the notion of "humane slaughter" for animals?
This is a classic case of cognitive dissonance—our minds trying to hold two opposing beliefs at once. We love animals and want to protect them, yet we support systems that cause unimaginable suffering under the guise of necessity or tradition. We tell ourselves the suffering is minimized, or that it's "natural." But the truth remains: killing animals for food can never be truly humane.
The good news is that we don't need to rely on the suffering of sentient beings for our survival. There is an abundance of plants and crops that provide complete nutrition and sustenance, without the cruelty and violence inherent in animal agriculture.
If we truly stand for justice, peace, and compassion, we must reject the myths that allow harm to continue unnoticed or ignored. Our choices on the plate are powerful acts of kindness or cruelty.
There are no slaughterhouses in the heavens, no slauhterhouses in the new Kingdom. It is is free of pain inflicted on innocent lives- just as the Garden of Eden knew no bloodshed.
Peace doesn't start in politics or protest alone. Peace begins on your plate.
Cultural Lines, Not Moral Lines
One culture eats pigs, another eats dogs — and each looks down on the other for it.
But the difference isn't morality, it's geography.
What we call "food" or "friend" is shaped by tradition, not ethics. Compassion shouldn't stop at culture's borders.
God needs an army, not an audience
From their wonderful website: The Freedom Farm Sanctuary was created out of a vision shared by hundreds of thousands in Israel, who aspire to make a significant change in the attitude of human beings towards other earthly creations, who dream that one day we will be able to view animals as creatures entitled to lives of freedom, with whom we can live side by side harmoniously without hurting, abusing or exploiting them, and without taking their flesh, their liberty, and their soul. Also check out Edgar's mission!
God Sees How We Treat His Creatures
God notices how people treat the animals in their care, and he wants
them to choose kindness, according to a story from Numbers 22 in which a
donkey spoke audibly to her master after he mistreated her. A sorcerer
named Balaam and his donkey encountered the Angel of the Lord while
traveling, and what happened showed the importance of treating God's
creatures well.
Balaam set off on a journey to do some sorcery work for Balak, the king of ancient Moab, in exchange for a large sum of money. Even though God had sent a message in a dream not to do the work - which involved spiritually cursing the Israelite people whom God had blessed - Baalam let greed take over in his soul and chose to take on the Moabite assignment despite God's warning. God was angry that Baalam was motivated by greed rather than faithfulness.
As Balaam was riding on his donkey on the way to do the work, God himself showed up in angelic form as the Angel of the Lord. Numbers 22:23 describes what happened next: "When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road."
Balaam went on to beat his donkey twice more as the donkey moved out of Angel of Lord's way. Each time the donkey moved abruptly, Balaam got upset by the sudden movement and decided to punish his animal. The donkey could see the Angel of the Lord, but Balaam couldn't. Ironically, even though Balaam was a famous sorcerer who was known for his clairvoyant abilities, he couldn't see God appearing as an angel - but one of God's creatures could. The donkey's soul was in a more pure state than Balaam's soul was.
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Purity makes it easier to perceive angels because it opens up spiritual perception in the presence of holiness. Then,
miraculously, God made it possible for the donkey to speak to Balaam in
an audible voice to get his attention. "Then the LORD opened the
donkey's mouth, and it said to Balaam, 'What have I done to you to make
you beat me these three times?'" verse 28 says.
What does it say about a holy place, if it cannot recognize the sacred in the most desperate of creatures?
The Absence of Mercy Is the Presence of Evil
In Veracruz, Mexico, a cow escaped on her way to the slaughterhouse. Driven by sheer instinct and a will to live, she ran through the streets until she reached a church - fittingly named Our Lady of Mercy.
But mercy was nowhere to be found.
She wasn't granted sanctuary. She wasn't seen as a soul seeking refuge — only as property that had strayed.
Despite her desperate plea for life, no one stepped in.
She was taken away. And now, she's gone.
She entered a place built on compassion, and still, no one could see her as worthy of it.
A truck carrying cows to slaughter rolled over. Two animals escaped from the overturned vehicle and made a run for it. One ran for the open doors of a supermarket and was shot dead - allegedly in the meat aisle.
If you were a true carnivore and think it's "natural" to eat animals, then this photo should make you hungry.
Mother Cow With Child Ran For Freedom, Shot Down With 70 Bullets
France, a couple years ago...and instead of being rescued to live in a sanctuary, she was gunned down, with her baby....
70 bullets were shot at her, without mercy..
Animals are not killed with hugs in slaughterhouses
The very saddest sound in all my memory was burned into my awareness at age five on my uncle's dairy farm in Wisconsin. A cow had given birth to a beautiful male calf. The mother was allowed to nurse her calf but for a single night.
On the second day after birth, my uncle took the calf from the mother and placed him in the veal pen in the barn - only ten yards away, in plain view of the mother.
The mother cow could see her infant, smell him, hear him, but could not touch him, comfort him, or nurse him. The heartrending bellows that she poured fourth, minute after minute, hour after hour, for five long days - were excruciating to listen to. Since that age, whenever I hear anyone postulate that animals cannot really feel emotions, I need only to replay that tortuous sound in my memory of that mother cow crying her bovine heart out to her infant." Michael Klaper
Humane farming is a myth. From the moment those animals are taken from those trucks and forced through the slaughtering process, it is the most inhumane treatment that I've ever witnessed. ~ Cayce Mell
Confessions of Slaughterhouse Workers - BBC
"We tried to keep them within the rails of the pens, but they were so small and bony that they could easily skip out and trot around, slightly wobbly on their newly born legs. They sniffed us, like puppies, because they were young and curious. Some of the boys and I stroked them, and they suckled our fingers."
"I've taken out my job pressure and frustration on the animals, on my wife, ... and on myself, with heavy drinking." Then it gets a lot worse: "... with an animal who pisses you off, you don't just kill it. You ... blow the windpipe, make it drown in its own blood, split its nose... I would cut its eye out... and this hog would just scream. One time I ... sliced off the end of a hog's nose. The hog went crazy, so I took a handful of salt brine and ground it into his nose. Now that hog really went nuts..."
Are we so numb that even tears leave us untouched?
We Say We Love Animals — But Our Actions Say Something Else
After the COVID lockdowns, many people struggled with being confined. The moment restrictions lifted, they rushed to zoos—to watch animals still living in captivity.
They couldn't stand being locked up themselves, yet found entertainment in watching other beings who never get to leave.
Or take this: someone lovingly rescues a baby bird that's fallen from its nest, feeling proud to have helped an innocent animal. Later that day, they put a chicken in the oven for dinner—without a second thought.
What's going on here? This is called cognitive dissonance - a psychological tension that arises when our actions don't match our values. Instead of changing our behavior, we often twist reality to feel better about ourselves. But deep down, something doesn't sit right. That discomfort? It's your conscience asking you to align your actions with your values.
Parents love taking their children to petting zoos - especially around Easter, to see the newborn lambs. They smile, take photos, stroke the soft wool… But they don't tell their children the truth: that many of these lambs will soon be slaughtered. Why not take them to the slaughterhouse too? Why only show them the beginning of a life they won't let live?
This is not teaching love for animals — this is teaching selective affection wrapped in denial.
We hide the violence because we know, deep down, children would be horrified. And maybe that tells us everything we need to know.
Whales, "compassionate amazing Buddhist warriors"
The real life Jonah and the whale - 2019 Rainer Schimpf is an experienced wildlife photographer and conservationist who was documenting a 'feeding frenzy' off the coast of South Africa when a whale scooped him up while taking a mouthful of sardines. (source)
Fun Fact: people like Jonah or Cousteau are called aquanauts. An aquanaut is any person who remains underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as saturation.
The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists - Jacques Cousteau, French inventor of open circuit scuba, pioneer diver, author, film-maker and marine researcher
In 2012, during a cold-water diving competition at the Polar Land aquarium in Harbin, China, a beluga whale named Mila saved a diver who had cramped up and begun sinking. Sensing the diver was in distress, the whale gently pushed her to the surface with its nose, preventing a potential drowning. (source)
Whales helping other animals: (source) When the killer whales moved in closer, the humpback arched its chest, lifting the seal out of the water. And when the seal started slipping off, the humpback, according to Pitman, "gave the seal a gentle nudge with its flipper, back to the middle of its chest. Moments later, the seal scrambled off and swam to the safety of a nearby ice floe."
Whales helping humans: (source) Incredible footage captures moment giant whale saves human from shark
Nigerian sailor 'a phenomenon' for surviving in air pocket for 3 days
12 jun. 2013 - Wearing only his underpants, Okene prayed as water seeped slowly but steadily into a 4ft sq air bubble in the cabin. Harrison Okene remained in bubble within upturned boat at depths experts say would be fatal for even experienced divers (source) Nigerian man who survived three days at bottom of Atlantic Ocean credits God for survival ... the night before, Okene's wife had texted him some Psalms, as the couple is Christian. He recalled those Psalms as he waited patiently 100 feet below the surface. "The Lord sustains my life." As Okene waited, temperatures dropped to freezing and oxygen levels began running low. But he trusted in God. (source)
Stop Animal Testing - Buy Vegan Only!
"Those who pay, hold the power."
Every time we buy animal products or items tested on animals, we fund and authorize that suffering.
Our money is a vote - and animals pay the price.
No less than 87.5% of biomedical research is inefficient and wasteful, says Professor Michael Bracken. Dr. Frances Cheng (source) More than 95 percent of drugs tested successfully on animals end up failing in humans. I dissected and experimented on animals and advocated for their use for more than a decade before I learned, through my own doctoral research, that animal "models" do not reflect human physiology. Critics of animal use are painted as unscientific, as extreme, or as bullies for objecting to even the most abhorrent of experiments. But experimenters' most despicable act is to pretend to be victims when their work is criticized. See full interview at: lockwoodfilm.com/test-subjects
Male chicks dropped alive in blenders or thrown away as garbage
In our system a chicken has more space in the oven than it every enjoyed when alive.
Matt 23:37 — "How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing."
This tender image of a mother hen gathering her chicks beautifully illustrates care and protection—so much so that Jesus Himself used it to describe His love for people.
It is one of the rare moments where He compares Himself to an animal, highlighting the deep compassion and gentleness embodied by the hen.
And yet, look how we treat these creatures today.
God literally denied taking a wicked city down because of it's animals, and this is how YOU treat His children?
God speaks in Jonah 4:11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left - AND ALSO MANY ANIMALS?"