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Old 01-07-2007, 12:52 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Claeren View Post
I said that IF you are Christian AND you waste thousands (and maintaining multipule pets over a lifetime especially in this scenario of doing so through serious sickness is probably into the tens of thousands+ over a lifetime) of dollars on maintaining the life of a bunch of silly animals then you are likely not living up to what i see as the ROOT of that faith. You are saying you are christian while you are acting like a typical faithless consumer. Actions speak louder the words, and in this case those actions are certainly not very christ-like. (Although how many behaviors of the first world citizen really are?)
Claeren.
So it's okay to own pets and spend money on them if I'm NOT a Christian? Phew, that's a relief. I'm more of a pagan than anything, so I guess it's okay for me to have a pet. Your arguement is then more of an anti-Christian thing than an ant-pet ownership thing.
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