@divegeestersaid Who here, atheist or otherwise, has told a child (or an adult) their recently deceased pet has gone to heaven?
Christians, is it true?
Atheists is it morally sound?
Telling a child that a deceased pet has gone to heaven is a way to console a child that it isn't really dead; it's just gone somewhere else.
Official doctrine (for grown-up Christians) is that only humans are made in God's image, only humans have souls, therefore only humans have an afterlife. All other animals die and stay dead.
@Ghost-of-a-Duke enough dad jokes...
back to pets, or livestock, or untamed animals, or fish, or insects, or any other form of "life" we know (including plants, because i WANT my venus flytrap by my gold-sheeted bed in heaven) that will or will not be accompanying us to the promised land...
i think it would be one of the Lord's egregious oversights if He/She did not allow the entities that were endeared to us in life to be forcefully removed in the glorious afterlife...
@rookie54said @Ghost-of-a-Duke enough dad jokes...
back to pets, or livestock, or untamed animals, or fish, or insects, or any other form of "life" we know (including plants, because i WANT my venus flytrap by my gold-sheeted bed in heaven) that will or will not be accompanying us to the promised land...
i think it would be one of the Lord's egregious oversights if He/She did not allow ...[text shortened]... s that were endeared to us in life to be forcefully removed in the glorious afterlife...