A Nice Comment About My Chapter On God and Animals for "The Christian Delusion"

via email:

I have just finished your chapter on "God and animals", and I must say that if this is the type of chapter that did not make it to the book (Christian Delusion) then the book is going to be [a] monster!!

Thank you for the work done on this. I believe (as an animal lover myself) that the care and compassion that a person is able to show towards other sentient beings is a very strong indication of that person's spiritual maturity, and if that is so our man Yahwe again falls so far short of even the most basic sense of decency.

Your chapter on this fills a very important gap in this discussion, and personally I believe that God and his earthly representatives should be called on this issue far more often. The whole Christian (well, let's be fair - theist) approach to animals as mobile food/slaves is appalling, and it was one of the cast-iron arguments that caused me to leave my own Christianity years ago. Still, I do not believe that this most important issue is highlighted enough. Your chapter will now happily reside on my hard drive, to be sent to all and any Christian that insists on living with their heads up their proverbials.

Thanks again, and best of luck with the book. I will most definitely order a copy.

Andre from SA

This is the link to that online chapter.