{"id":754280,"date":"2018-08-19T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754280"},"modified":"2018-08-19T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T12:15:55","slug":"imago-diabolus-not-imago-dei-southern-baptists-posted-a-video-opposing-animal-cruelty-and-then-profusely-apologized-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754280","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Imago Dei&#8217; or &#8216;Imago Diabolus&#8217;?: Christian Southern Baptists posted a video opposing animal cruelty \u2014 and then profusely apologized for it"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Using the binary, as done in the video, of 'human animals' and 'nonhuman animals' can strike Christians as subversive to a theological anthropology grounded in Scripture. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BERNY BELVEDERE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission [ERLC]&#8230; posted a video online about the ethical treatment of animals. And then hours later, the ERLC took the video down \u2014 and its vice president for communications, Daniel Darling, wrote a lengthy apology for posting it. Just what was so wrong about a video endorsing the humane treatment of animals? The speaker is Fordham theology professor Charles Camosy, who last year in The Washington Post called on Christians to become vegans. Camosy told me he wasn\u2019t surprised that the video was taken down. After all, for many Christians, the suggestion that their eating habits impose great harms on other beings takes them to a \u201cdeeply uncomfortable place&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>But there\u2019s more to the ERLC\u2019s position than simply finding it hard to give up meat-eating. There\u2019s a crucial theological doctrine&#8230; James N. Anderson, a professor of theology and philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary, explained it this way: \u201cOn a biblical view, there\u2019s a categorical \u2014 an essential \u2014 distinction between humans and animals grounded in the idea of the image of God, which speaks to the uniqueness and sacredness of human life as opposed to any other form of life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In the video, Camosy subsumes animal welfare under the umbrella of antiabortion concerns, traditionally the exclusive province of life issues of a human sort \u2014 a grave error in the eyes of some evangelicals&#8230; Using the binary \u2014 as Camosy does in the video \u2014 of \u201chuman animals\u201d and \u201cnonhuman animals\u201d can strike Christians as subversive to a theological anthropology grounded in Scripture. But the distinction between creatures who feel pain and creatures who don\u2019t does not include a claim suggesting their metaphysical equality. Thus, Christians should have no problem using it as a framework for moral action&#8221;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2018\/08\/09\/southern-baptists-posted-a-video-opposing-animal-cruelty-and-then-profusely-apologized-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNtuCb2F2cI?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERNY BELVEDERE: &#8216;The Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission [ERLC]&#8230; posted a video online about the ethical treatment of animals. And then hours later, the ERLC took the video down \u2014 and its vice president for communications, Daniel Darling, wrote a lengthy apology for posting it. 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