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As a Trinitarian, I recognise that the Catholic tradition of the Baby Jesus as God is incorrect; indeed, I have a particular difficulty with Christmas in this respect and refuse to celebrate it. I find support throughout the Hebrew Scriptures for The Trinity that respects Jesus as co-equal with God, as a part of the Trinity… and the texts at Ugarit [Ras Shamra] in Syria also support that view revealing a ruling Trinity.
God has created a world which includes violence, injustice and capricious cruelty. How can anyone respect such a God, let alone love God? If God is to be credible we need to know that God has actually suffered what we suffer. In other words God needs to have lived as a human being in our world. There has been a huge expansion, then, in the suffering of living creatures — and we are supposed to applaud it as an advance for tolerance. The halal and kosher meat industries are fighting even tepid proposals by the European Union to ensure that all meat made from unstunned animals must be clearly labelled.
They claim this will render their businesses "economically unviable".
Isn't that an extraordinary confession — that if people knew what they were buying, the companies would go bust? Atheists who criticise religion are constantly being told we have missed the point and religion is really about compassion and kindness. It is only a handful of extremists and fundamentalists who "misunderstand" faith and use it for cruel ends, we are told with a wagging finger. But here's an example where most members of a religion choose to do something pointlessly cruel, and even the moderates demand "respect" for their "views".
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Their faith makes them prioritise pleasing an invisible supernatural being over the screaming of actual living creatures. Doesn't this suggest that faith itself — the choice to believe something in the total absence of evidence — is a danger that can lead you up needlessly nasty paths?
Britain is famously a nation of animal lovers who turn doe-eyed and gooey at the sight of any furry creature. So why are we sitting silently while our treatment of many of our animals regresses to the standards of the sixth century? It is true that, at the moment, there is a frightening rise in real bigotry against Muslims and, to a lesser but still significant extent, Jews.
Some people who object to the rise of halal meat try to fit it into a preposterous narrative where Britain is somehow being "taken over" by the 4 per cent of its population who are Muslim, presumably via the Protocols of the Elders of Mecca. I have written many articles against this resurgent bigotry, and I can see why some people would be shy about anything that would look like piling on. But the only consistent position is to oppose viciousness against these minorities, and to oppose viciousness by these minorities.
The proponents of halal and kosher meat are choosing to inflict terrible and unnecessary pain on living creatures every day. It would be condescending to treat them as victim-children who are exempt from moral debate — and it would be a betrayal of the real victims here: the sentient creatures having their throats cut. We need to be much more self-confident in criticising religious claims. Your ideas do not deserve any special status because you say they came from an invisible, supernatural being.
No, we don't respect your desire to needlessly torment animals because some hallucinating desert nomads did it centuries ago.
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We don't respect it at all. You can cry that we are "persecuting" you if we stop you committing acts of cruelty if you want. It's what the religious — Christian, Jew and Muslim alike — did when we stopped you tormenting women and gays and anybody else you could get your hands on. One of the great markers of the advance of human kindness is the howls you will hear from the Men of God. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists?
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