Letter from Kim Nguyen to Catholic Priest about Animal Cruelty - 13 Jan 2013
Dear Father,
I think the letter which I am sending might be of interest to you. I hope
that you will find some time to read it and help me with the following
questions:
1/ I learned in Catholic church that God is called the most merciful being,
so why would He create sentient beings who are intelligent, can feel pain
and become frightened as humans do, only to have them tortured horribly by
humans?
2/ Was it dictated by God’s voice that said He created animals for humans to
consume?
3/ How would we feel if we were forcibly and repeatedly impregnated –
to be blunt, raped? If the babies we carried for nine months were torn from
us so that the milk meant for them would be sold? If we were hooked up to
milking machines until we were “spent,” then shipped off to slaughter when
we became too sick or too weak to be financially valuable?
Would we like to wear a chain on our neck and stand in a small crate that
does not allow us to extend our extremities for our entire lives? To be
dragged and thrown in to a crowded truck for a long transport to a
slaughterhouse with no water or food? Or to be skinned alive?
The suffering of animals caused by humans is far beyond our imagination.
You may go online to see it yourself.
4/ The Catholic church teaches their followers to oppose abortion because it
is a mortal sin to kill, yet they teach their followers to brutally kill
animals to satisfy the followers’ taste buds. I wonder, as they teach them
to kill one living being (an animal), how Catholic leaders expect them not
to kill another living being (a fetus).
What a contradiction! If you are cruel to one living being, you will be
desensitized to other living beings’ feelings. Apparently, since we
have a green light to kill animals freely, we will have no feeling against
killing other living beings, such as humans. The massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary school in Connecticut is a good example. In addition, we do not
care about those who are starving in third-world countries because their
grain is exported to our country to feed the animals whom we raise to
be unhealthy food.
5/ Humans have been trying to explore other planets to find living beings.
What would we think if one day powerful beings from another planet placed us
in crates so small that we cannot turn around for our entire of lives in
order to harvest our eggs, milked us, raped us, took our babies away from us
for their own food, and treated us with all the same cruel methods with
which we are treating animals today?
6/ I learned in Catholic church that arrogance is the most basic cause
of every sin. How are we allowed to be so arrogant in thinking that
only humans are valuable while the other living beings are inferior to
us? That humans are allowed to exploit other species for food, for
entertainment, for clothing, or for any other purpose that humans desire?
7/ I wonder if you consciously, ethically, morally, humanely think that we
should continue to treat animals with no mercy, no compassion as we have
been doing for so long? If I’m not mistaken, in the Bible it said that
if we are a bad example for our children, we would better be thrown into
everlasting hell.
8/ I wonder how the Catholic church can teach their followers to do the
right things in this life in order to find peace in heaven in the next life,
yet create a hell on earth for animals by teaching their followers to
torture animals for the followers’ greed?
I would like you to read this:
Why do we believe we matter more than all of the other species on the
planet? Why do we feel we must enforce our supremacy at the expense of all
of the other species? Why do we insist it is either us or them, as if
peaceful coexistence weren’t possible? Are we perhaps far too selfish, too
egotistical to share this world with others – all of who arrived on this
planet long before us?
-Australian philanthropist Phillip Wollen
I am writing to you because I do not want to lose faith in the Catholic
church. I’m honestly praying that you will consider what I wrote and will no
longer teach your followers to be unfeeling people responsible for killing
animals. There is too much cruelty that we have inflicted onto innocent
animals for too long a period of time. By practicing this cruel philosophy
we are destroying ourselves (inner soul and outer body), all other living
beings, and our planet. I believe it is time for us to awaken.
Thanks so much for your time. I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Kim Nguyen
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