If you found out your neighbor's sacrificed your dog to the " Dog God" , would you be very upset ?
91342
Yes, especially since there is no DOG GOD!
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I'm not an atheist... but I'll take the hypothetical anyway and pretend that I'm being asked to convert to a particular religion, being as I am not religious at all. The question is, after all, would I convert and practice a belief system different from my own to save my daughter.\n\nWell, of course I would, generally speaking... but would it matter? As you say... if there's a God, He would know that I didn't really begin to believe anything different, and I'd probably make him that much more angry with me. I'd do an awful lot for a child of mine.\n\nI've decided to pose the question that gwad suggested, as I'd like to know what other religious people think. :)
982124
No, I wouldn't kill him, cause then I would have to answer to God, but I would hurt him so bad that he would wish and pray to God that he was dead.lol
698791
thats a hard one, i had to do the same to my 6 year old son, our dog haily which had grown up with my son'had got cushing deasease which is very painful and when the dog gets sicker you have to get them put out of their misery,, i told my son that hailey was really sick 'and god wants her to go to heaven ,, the next day she went to heaven... we all cried and cried , i still cry when i think of poor hailey,but tell her the dog loves you so much 'but now he's gotta go to heaven ..that other dogs will meet her there,,,, good-luck
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PUPPY LOVE.......it hurts a lot too. She'll get over him....God isn't finished with her yet. It is sweet of you to be so loving and concerned.She has a terrific cousin.
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Wow loss of meat. But i would be hapy.  I mean not for me but for the animals. They wud be somewhere where they weren't being hunted for their furs or tusks. They could rome freely the way God intended for it to be.
575025
That's a very big "if". \n\n"If" a pink elephant appeared to you in a vision and said it was God, would you switch religions?
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Not sure.  I'd feel pretty heartbroken, and probably would be very near to ending the marriage.  It depends on whether or not my husband was sorry.  Haven't had this happen to me, so I don't know.
702147
yes it has; I had a beautiful collie, shepherd, husky mix, who I loved dearly. I miss her so much. It's been awhile since she died, and I have another dog. I still sometimes feel the presence of Raven, so I believe totally that she is with God, waiting to see me someday, where we'll be re-united. God wouldn't let us love our precious pets, and not ever see them again! I think Raven visits me, too....
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We feel that we are right if we put our own family pet down if its in pain and dieing. We can put a horse down for just being lame. We even give humane injections to murderers and rapist...But we must make a human being thats going to die anyway....live every last painful, painfull moment of their suffering lives. Right down to their very last breath. Why? Because WE want them to live. Not because THEY want to live like that. WE have the issues. \nI think he is an angel. But when you watch him on tv the next time...I think he is trying to be passive. The issue isnt about him. Its about the suffering people. Its their lives. Their right to say enough is enough. \n\nI pray that if I was ever made to stay alive like that...that someone would walk in and just put a loaded gun on the table. And walk out. (no he doesnt use a gun)\nI wouldnt need them to stay or confort me. Just let me do what I have to do. I loved a dog sooo much that I couldnt take hearing her suffer. The vet told me there wasnt any hope . I put her to rest. I hope someone someday ....if I am ever like that...lets me put myself to rest.
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i guess that God just got mad at dogs when he was giving out brains and gave us the larger ones....but hey, that's just me
769750
That bastard can claim no allegance from me.  He killed his own brother Osiris.\n\nThat said, I love how he's represented in the anime Hellsing.  That eight-eyed dog truly owns.
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Just recently, I learned that a very nasty, mean man from my hometown had died and the only thought in my head at hearing this news was "I hope wherever he went, they're treating him as well as he treated his wife and his dogs in his lifetime"...Not a kind thought, and if you knew how often his wife came to work bruised up and how abused his dogs were, you'd know how evil it is that I wish for him the same treatment.
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As of this moment, I'm thinking how on earth my dogs couldn't stop barking at anybody who's passing by? No matter how I love them, they could get into my nerves at time and once I shout at them to stop, they'll run to me and the way their faces looks at me as if I did something horrible! Now, it makes me feel guilty and of course, one ends up in my lap and since the other one is too big, he just likes his back be scratch....
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It wouldn't change it at all. I don't assume there is a god. I try to be a good person "for Goodness' Sake," not to receive some heavenly reward from a bearded man in the sky.
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Your middle eastern friends may be muslims, and if so, they do not keep dogs as pets.  To the muslims, the dog and pig are both ceremonially unclean animals, not to be touched even.  So they would not have much contact with dogs from not ever having one as a pet and would not understand your affection for your dog.  They're not being unkind, I don't think, just not aware.
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Actually, if you really do think about it, God spelled backwards is Dog and dog is man's best friend (which is also what God is, being man's best friend).\n\nI'm sure that Tom will see things differently in time.  Please don't push him though - everyone knows from experience that when something or someone is forced on them, you tend to back away and turn away from whatever or whoever it is.\n\nHave a lovely rest of the day.