WARNING! The following may offend...
First off, I want to say that I am an animal person. I like cats (have two of my own) and occassionally dogs (neighborhood dogs excluded!) So when I say the following, I am perfectly unbiased!
Okay, so I am watching tv and there is this commercial running. You've seen it, you can't help but see it. They run it on every channel! Sara McLachlan's "Arms of the Angels" begins playing (which will immediately melt anyone with that piano intro) and you are prepared for a tear jerker. Here is comes, it's a commercial for.......neglected animals. And there is Sara McLachlan herself advocating for abused animals and trying to get me to send money. Okay, I am the first to melt at the sight of a sweet little kitten or puppy. As a matter of fact, just like night I saw a itty-bitty kitten on the sidewalk and stopped to try and get it (what I would have done with it I have no idea). And to the producer of this commercial credit, he picked the cutest, saddest little animals to put on there. DISCLAIMER! I do not, in any form or fashion, condone the abuse or neglect of animals. Beating an animal until it is dead is ridiculous, inhumane, and honestly is a sign of something far deeper psychologically. But, I wonder...
Where are the commercials for the neglected and abused children or women? Yeah, we see the commercials for the starving children in foreign countries but what about in our own backyard? DISCLAIMER AGAIN! I do not advocate the removal of the foreign children's commercial, I am just asking a question. I mean, we have superstar singers like Sara Mclachlan spending her time and energy fighting for abused animals, but yet where are the superstars standing up for abused children? I'm sure they're out there, but I don't see a commercial running on every major station known to man! If you think this is sort of a retarded subject to write about, or if you think I am being too cruel, allow me to present you with something...
There have been many nations who have placed animals above humans by worshiping them. Egypt worshiped cats as animals of the gods. They were placed in high esteem in the temples and with the pharoahs, all the while they had millions of Israelites in slavery. Their own people were starving to death and suffering, but the cats were worshiped. We see what happened to Egypt. Once the most powerful nation in the world, not it is a speck on the map. I'm not saying that the worship of cats brought the dynasty down. I am saying that their misappropriated priorities did bring them down. Their priorities were way off base, and the worship of man and animals instead of worshiping and following the God of the universe did bring them down (in my opinion).
Okay, so this went a little further than I wanted. I was just blown away that we cry out over the abuse and neglect of animals, but remain silent when it comes to the rape, beatings, and even emotional abuse of children. We say, "well we can't do anything about that, but that cat over there is being abused! OUTRAGE!!! MAKE A COMMERCIAL!!!" We overlook human abuse but scream about animal abuse. Where are out priorities? And I didn't mean to equivilate the abuse of animals to the fall of the Egyptian empire, but I wonder...what's next for us?
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