Ep. 49 | Preferring Pets Over People: Popular, Yet Perverse Artwork

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Ep. 49 | Preferring Pets Over People: Popular, Yet Perverse

January 25, 2022 • Ciara Wieland and Jessi Bridges • Season 3

If your dog and a perfect stranger were drowning in a lake, side by side, who would you try to save? Would it surprise you to learn that nearly 2/3 of American adults would choose their dog? This disregard for our fellow man, in favor of animals is permeating society to a degree that many married couples are choosing to have pets instead of having children, and many animal species have greater legal protections than unborn babies.

As Christians, we ought to be aware of how our attitudes about animals and their relative value to human beings can mimic that of the secular world, and this is exactly the consideration - and many more - that Ciara and Jessi look at in this episode.

Show Notes:
Chewy.com Christmas commercial: https://youtu.be/iIavnj8qGa0

PragerU: Are Humans More Valuable Than Animals? https://youtu.be/7JATJv8HlV8

Episode 15: Is God A Wo(Man)? https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538023/8151370-ep-15-god-is-a-wo-man

A Rate is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement https://www.amazon.com/Rat-Pig-Dog-Boy-Movement/dp/1594033463

The New England Journal of Medicine: The Groningen Protocol https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmp058026

"Euthanizing Children" by Wesley J. Smith https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/10/euthanizing-children

CDC 2020 Birth Rates https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr012-508.pdf

Population Trends in the Middle East and North Africa https://www.prb.org/resources/population-trends-and-challenges-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/

Why Muslims Are The Fastest Growing Religious Group https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-are-the-worlds-fastest-growing-religious-group/

Voddie Baucham: The Centrality of the Home in the Evangelism and Discipleship of the Next Generation https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/gracefamilybaptist/sermons/5209234630/

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