Do Animals Sin? - A Pagan's View
In my opinion, sinning was something created by man to control the masses...to tell others what they "can" and "can not" do. Some of those things that would be considered sins, are part of our natural instincts.
Man has "rules" they are supposed to live by. Animals do not. Is that what makes us different? It may sound funny to say it, but we wouldn't call it a sin for an animal to have sex with another that he/she is not married to. We would not call it a sin if we seen an animal stealing from another.
We may feel that it's tragic, but likely we would not call it a sin for an animal to kill another of it's kind. In the realm of animals, it's survival of the fittest....only the strong survive.
And while there are certain disease and affliction that can infect an animal, they don't have half of the afflictions of humanity. Why? Perhaps it's because they are free of "sin".
As humans, we cater to our weak and our sick, with all kinds of medication and treatments. We allow our weaknesses, so to speak, to be passed on from generation to generation. We wouldn't think of leaving our kind to just die from some illness. Does that make us compassionate? Or maybe in fact actually "removed" from our true instincts?
One can wonder, what did ancient man do, before all the high tech diagnostic and treatment facilities that we have now? Their natural instincts perhaps, allowed them to use herbs and natural remedies for things that were not very serious, but what about everything else?
We can wonder if they stayed close to their kind that were dying from some serious disease. It is possible that they left them to die, as a preventative measure.
I think it is unlikely that they brought them into their shelters and tried to care for the very ill, otherwise, man would have been wiped out before having any chances to evolve.
Perhaps this is even why we "stopped" evolving?
Nature is sacred, and has a way of taking care of it's own, in the best way possible. Since the advent of sin, I think humanity has lost touch with nature and her instincts.
Just maybe delving deep, to find our natural instincts will be the cure that can save humanity? Or will it make us less "humane"?
Published by Wendy Cheuvront
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Post a CommentAlan....
Animals rarely kill just to kill. They kill for food or if they feel threatened.
You can like the idea of sin all you want, but I'd bet you wouldn't refrain from killing someone or something if it was their life or yours.
Especially if it was an animal. You wouldn't think twice about "sinning" against them, I'd bet.
Wow, so I can murder people and that's just survival of the fittest. Especially if I'm doing it for my own benefit. Maybe we invented it, but I don't want to have to kill people to defend my life and I really don't want to kill people just to defend temporal gain, I like the concept of sin.
Interesting point about us stopping the natural evolutionary process because we disallow natural selection and survival of the fittest-
Never really thought much about that, but you definitely gave me something to chew on for a while.
Thanks!
Hi Kathy,
Thanks so much! Yes, we are different in our thinking.
Interesting. But I think there is a difference between humans and animals...in our thinking... that keeps us from behaving like animals. I always enjoy reading your articles. You make me think about things!!