all-creatures.org blog » Violence http://www.all-creatures.org/blog Working for a Peaceful World for Humans, Animals and the Environment Tue, 21 May 2013 15:33:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Challenging Church Compassion – 02: Love of Fishing http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-02-love-of-fishing/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-02-love-of-fishing/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:43:42 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=542 Challenging Church Compassion – 02: Love of Fishing A Love of Fishing Causes Emotional Violence People are constantly writing to us about how emotionally shocked and upset they become at the church’s hardness of heart when it comes to the suffering of animals.  The following letter from Jenny Moxham is one of these examples: “My [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/challenging-church-compassion-02-love-of-fishing/feed/ 0 Removing Ourselves from a Violent World http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/removing-ourselves-from-a-violent-world/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/removing-ourselves-from-a-violent-world/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:11:14 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=519 Removing Ourselves from a Violent World A Sermon Delivered to The CompassionInternetChurch 3 March 2013 Frank L. Hoffman, Pastor Scripture References: Luke 13:1-9 Acts 3:1-26 We have talked about the fact that our living as peacemaking children of God is not a sometimes situation, such as during the Lenten season; it is for every day [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/removing-ourselves-from-a-violent-world/feed/ 0 Living in the Will of God – 12 All Flesh Corrupted http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/living-in-the-will-of-god-12-all-flesh-corrupted/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/living-in-the-will-of-god-12-all-flesh-corrupted/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:27:47 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=493 Living in the Will of God – 12 All Flesh Corrupted As we continue with our study of living in the will of God, and the way the wicked people of this world had corrupted God’s creation intent, we also see in Genesis 6:9-13 that all flesh had also become corrupted. 9. These are the [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/living-in-the-will-of-god-12-all-flesh-corrupted/feed/ 0 Living in the Will of God – 09 Lovingkindness http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/living-in-the-will-of-god-09-lovingkindness/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/living-in-the-will-of-god-09-lovingkindness/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:19:02 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=480 Living in the Will of God – 09 Lovingkindness In part 08 of this blog series we talked about hardness of heart, and the fact that many of the churches through their silence, complacency, and indifference to the suffering of animals helps keep the problems alive. The opposite of hardness of heart is what the [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/living-in-the-will-of-god-09-lovingkindness/feed/ 6 Animal Farmers’ Hardness of Heart http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/animal-farmers-hardness-of-heart/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/animal-farmers-hardness-of-heart/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:09:36 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=386 Animal Farmers’ Hardness of Heart In order to raise animals for food, or slaughter them, and/or eat their flesh and by-products, we have to harden our hearts to the point that we no longer have empathy for the feelings of the animals or are indifferent to the animals’ pain and suffering. This was recently brought [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/animal-farmers-hardness-of-heart/feed/ 5 Child Abuse: Teach Children to Kill http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/child-abuse-teach-children-to-kill/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/child-abuse-teach-children-to-kill/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:22:39 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=256 Child Abuse: Teach Children to Kill For years we have been observing and studying the ungodly practice of teaching our children to kill through the supposed pleasure of hunting and fishing (fish killing), and how such practices harden the hearts of these children so that they no longer have any empathy for the feelings of [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/child-abuse-teach-children-to-kill/feed/ 3 Guns and Violent Deaths http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/guns-and-violent-deaths/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/guns-and-violent-deaths/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:55:16 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=246 Guns and Violent Deaths Stephen Augustine sent us some very interesting information from Lorraine Devon Wilke’s article (20 Jan 2013) about gun deaths. In the past 43 years (1968-2011) there have been 1,384,171 gun deaths in the United States. This is 18% higher than all the war deaths in U. S. history, which stands at [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/guns-and-violent-deaths/feed/ 6 Child Abuse and Fishing http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/child-abuse-and-fishing/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/child-abuse-and-fishing/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:16:25 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=235 Child Abuse and Fishing A few days ago when we were logging in and out of Facebook, we were greeted by an image of a little boy with a big smile on his face holding a fishing line with two fish hanging from it. The image really bothered us, and all we could think of [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/child-abuse-and-fishing/feed/ 10 Peacemakers Don’t Need Guns http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/peacemakers-dont-need-guns/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/peacemakers-dont-need-guns/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:30:42 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=167 Peacemakers Don’t Need Guns A few of our blog articles on being peacemakers and not needing guns or other weapons has sparked some controversy even among Christians, with some agreeing with “our” position, and others saying that we should be armed for protection. We said “our” position, because that’s what the arguments referenced, but they [...]

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]]> http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/peacemakers-dont-need-guns/feed/ 2 Violence in the Name of Religion http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/violence-in-the-name-of-religion/ http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/violence-in-the-name-of-religion/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:49:40 +0000 flhadmin http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/?p=158 Violence in the Name of Religion Maynard S. Clark wrote a very interesting observation about a major problem within Christianity: “We’ve all been treated to public discussions of Violence in the name of religion, and we also know how many “gun toting pastors” are eager to teach their congregants that the “manly” art of self-protection [...]

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