🐦‍🔥🕊🐕🐕‍🦺 Swoop🦮𓆈𓅐𓅣

LCMS Elder; writer & nature photographer; defender of dogs, friend to animals. Urvogelist.

Have faith: evil cannot bear to look upon a Dog.

[🐦‍🔥🕊🐕🐕‍🦺 Swoop🦮𓆈𓅐𓅣 @SwoopiePoopy]

Today is my last day working at the kennel. To celebrate, here's a thread of every single dog I can remember the name of, in no particular order:

Tucker, to start.

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@equalitysdaniel True on all counts!

[James Dorman IV @alfredsparks]

Even when you sin, you do not provoke God to disinherit you. Instead, He is prompted to win you back to fellowship with Him.

Hear His words through Isaiah: ‘…he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him…’

—William Gurnall

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Relevant again

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There is a genuine overlap between the people who support mass euthanization of abandoned animals and who support abortion of humans.

There's a philosophy that the cost of any suffering outweighs the inherent virtue of life (if they believe in life's inherent goodness at all), and that it is better to die than to experience suffering.

This is sharply contrary to the Christian ethic that life has inherent worth, that all that is is good, and that all suffering- though never intended to be, and outside the will of the Divine, Who promises to one day amend it all and eliminate it completely- even at its zenith, pales in comparison to even a fraction of a second of experiencing the joy of existence.

Now, we as humans have a duty to steward the animals of the world, and in the case of our domesticated animals especially, this sometimes means putting them to death to end their suffering (but it is in this mercy that I also contend for the hope of an ultimate resurrection of our beloved animals), particularly when that suffering is prolonged by our artificial attempts to keep them alive (some draw parallels between this and the 'assisted dying' of terminal humans, but because men and beasts are so profoundly different in their value- though both are precious in the eyes of our Creator, man is far moreso- this argument is disingenuous and evil).

But this stewardship extends only to the euthanization of certain individual animals as a matter of exceptional course, not the wholesale approach to batches of them, as kill shelters adopt. There is a massive gulf between euthanizing a dog with brain cancer suffering from routine seizures, and euthanizing a dog because he has sat in the shelter for too long, failing to yet be adopted, and must be killed to clear space for another. One is mercy, the other is slaughter.

The no-kill shelter ethic is not opposition to the euthanization of individual animals that pose a threat to people, or those who so physiologically suffer that extending their life is cruelty, it is the belief that all our companion animals deserve the fullness of our effort in the pursuit of their preservation, regardless of the hopelessness of their case. It is the faith that, even if no outside party will care for an abandoned animal, we will expend all possible resources to doing so anyways- indefinitely, if need be, because it's life will always matter more to us than time, space, or money. Our ethic is that it is wrong to sacrifice some merely to clear space for others, and that we will exercise the fullness of our love even towards the creatures that are deemed not to deserve it. Always, always in the trust that someday someone else will see them with the same eyes and treat them with the same tender hand that we do.

That is the faith, and the hope, of a no-kill animal shelter. The dogs are here, and we will protect them. All of them.

[🐦‍🔥🕊🐕🐕‍🦺 Swoop🦮𓆈𓅐𓅣 @SwoopiePoopy]

There is a genuine overlap between the people who support mass euthanization of abandoned animals and who support abortion of humans.

There's a philosophy that the cost of any suffering outweighs the inherent virtue of life (if they believe in life's inherent goodness at all), and that it is better to die than to experience suffering.

This is sharply contrary to the Christian ethic that life has inherent worth, that all that is is good, and that all suffering- though never intended to be, and outside the will of the Divine, Who promises to one day amend it all and eliminate it completely- even at its zenith, pales in comparison to even a fraction of a second of experiencing the joy of existence.

Now, we as humans have a duty to steward the animals of the world, and in the case of our domesticated animals especially, this sometimes means putting them to death to end their suffering (but it is in this mercy that I also contend for the hope of an ultimate resurrection of our beloved animals), particularly when that suffering is prolonged by our artificial attempts to keep them alive (some draw parallels between this and the 'assisted dying' of terminal humans, but because men and beasts are so profoundly different in their value- though both are precious in the eyes of our Creator, man is far moreso- this argument is disingenuous and evil).

But this stewardship extends only to the euthanization of certain individual animals as a matter of exceptional course, not the wholesale approach to batches of them, as kill shelters adopt. There is a massive gulf between euthanizing a dog with brain cancer suffering from routine seizures, and euthanizing a dog because he has sat in the shelter for too long, failing to yet be adopted, and must be killed to clear space for another. One is mercy, the other is slaughter.

The no-kill shelter ethic is not opposition to the euthanization of individual animals that pose a threat to people, or those who so physiologically suffer that extending their life is cruelty, it is the belief that all our companion animals deserve the fullness of our effort in the pursuit of their preservation, regardless of the hopelessness of their case. It is the faith that, even if no outside party will care for an abandoned animal, we will expend all possible resources to doing so anyways- indefinitely, if need be, because it's life will always matter more to us than time, space, or money. Our ethic is that it is wrong to sacrifice some merely to clear space for others, and that we will exercise the fullness of our love even towards the creatures that are deemed not to deserve it. Always, always in the trust that someday someone else will see them with the same eyes and treat them with the same tender hand that we do.

That is the faith, and the hope, of a no-kill animal shelter. The dogs are here, and we will protect them. All of them.

[🐦‍🔥🕊🐕🐕‍🦺 Swoop🦮𓆈𓅐𓅣 @SwoopiePoopy]

Disabled people are made in the Image of God who deserve to live as much as anyone else, and it's pure evil for you to determine that they don't meet your subjective threshold for a sufficiently quality life and therefore should be murdered. All you've done is reduced a life that will contain some suffering to one that will only contain suffering, before being snuffed out completely.

A single smile from a baby with Down Syndrome outweighs every argument for your God-damned 'mercy'.

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You're not gonna believe what action permanently negatively impacts a child's quality of life

[Inak @unayosimi]

Yall do realize if both parents know they are not prepared to care for a child w/ disabilities, it would literally negatively impact both the parents and the child’s quality of life??

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@unayosimi @Jeremiahsmith97 Yea, that's kinda the evil of murdering a little baby that can't fight back

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I think I'm a lawful good angel 😇

[That One Mook @that_one_mook]

what's my alignment

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@that_one_mook Neutral Good

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@panpanredpanda @deirdre_muffin Congrats to you guys!!!

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Elon murdered the GOAT @furbalurbalurb AGAIN

(I warned him)

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Gyro dinner tonight!

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Farewell to another day

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World's least nutty grackle

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@crochet_mom314 Never! I love seeing my little feathered friends every day

[PresbyPilgrim 🦭 @PresbyPilgrim]

@apologistlayman Hey PAPISTS

If PAPISM true, then how come POPE still SINGLE?

[Matt Mead @whodamoose]

G.K. Chesterton:

[Reformed Dogmatika @RefDogmatika]

What is the chief end of man?

Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. https://t.co/SYC5hQmpul

[Free Sea Elf @TheFreeSeaElf]

The Tide Rises