Atheists can say anything they damn well please. In fact, they claim the unborn are not human and we need a trained biologist to determine what a woman is. They are all a bunch of insane loons, so what?
The bottom line is, you either view the human species as mere animals, or you treat them as above the animal real by saying that they were created in the image of God himself, thus assigning them protection from what human beings do to animals. It is either that, or you can sit back and watch the powers that be treat human beings like humans treat animals, which is to herd them around, enslave them in zoos for our entertainment, use them as beasts of burden, or kill and eat them. Only the Judeo-Christian religion makes such a distinction from what I know.
Now left-wing groups like PETA make no such distinction, often treating animals better than human beings. But to be fair, if there is no God, why the hell not? Adolf Hitler, for example, loved animals more than people, especially his German Shepherds. The Nazi's passed cutting-edge legislation to protect animals as well while he led the chronically sick and handicapped Germans to the basements of hospitals to end their lives because they were a burden on the state.
No doubt, they would have also done this to animals had they had similar problems.
This is the type of government we have today, who value animal life more than human life
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