Rev. Dr. John Austin Baker
Bishop of Salisbury, England (1982-1993)
"Yet saddest of all
fates, surely, is to have lost that sense of the holiness of life
altogether; that we commit the blasphemy of bringing thousands of lives
to a cruel and terrifying death or of making those lives a living death
-- and feel nothing."
"It is in
the battery shed that we find the parallel with Auschwitz....To shut
your mind, heart and imagination from the sufferings of others is to
begin slowly, but inexorably, to die. Those Christians who close their
minds and hearts to the cause of animal welfare, and the evils it seeks
to combat, are ignoring the Fundamental spiritual teachings of Christ
himself." ~ Sermon on the
World Day of Prayer for Animals, 4 October 1986
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