{"id":749590,"date":"2017-12-15T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749590"},"modified":"2017-12-15T14:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T14:39:30","slug":"professor-of-theology-of-animals-dogged-in-her-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749590","title":{"rendered":"Professor of \u2018theology of animals\u2019 dogged in her beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

LORETTA FULTON:<\/strong> \u2018The turning point for Susan Pigott came one night when she was stewing a chicken for her favorite dish, chicken tetrazzini. A repulsive thought came to her. \u201cThis is a dead animal. I am a cannibal. I can\u2019t do this anymore.\u201d That was about 15 years ago. Since then, Pigott, professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the Logsdon School of Theology at Hardin-Simmons University, has gone whole hog, so to speak\u2026 After her experience with the stewing chicken, Pigott became a vegetarian and so did her two children, although she didn\u2019t insist they follow her diet\u2026 Susan Pigott got so deep into her revelation about animals and their relationship to God, creation, and humanity, that she spent her sabbatical leave in 2007 doing research that resulted in a special class she taught one semester, \u201cAnimals in the Bible\u201d\u2026 <\/em><\/p>\n

Pigott\u2019s journey has evolved from the personal (no more dead animals for supper) to the ethical to the theological. After her spiritual awakening over the stew pot, she started looking more deeply into the modern factory farm method of raising animals for slaughter. \u201cI was appalled,\u201d she said. \u201cThis can\u2019t be OK.\u201d And then, being a Christian and a religion professor, she began to look more deeply into the theology of animals in scripture. She found that scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments support humane treatment of animals…<\/em><\/p>\n

Pigott is so well versed in the pertinent scriptures that it wouldn\u2019t be wise to pepper her with skeptical comments or questions like, \u201cThe Bible says man has dominion over animals\u201d or \u201cJesus ate meat\u201d or \u201cBut, animals don\u2019t have souls, do they?\u201d She is ready to answer with specific scriptures that put those kinds of comments in their place. Concerning the word \u201cdominion,\u201d Pigott said both testaments are clear that having dominion does not give a human being the right to be a tyrannical ruler. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely a peaceable kind of dominion,\u201d she said. \u201cEven the dominion of the king is limited.\u201d As for Jesus\u2019 dietary habits, Pigott noted that meals in the time of Jesus were primarily vegetarian, with animals valued for their byproducts\u2019.<\/em> SOURCE\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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