A Michael Broad Blog
This would be a great manger cat Furby has his version of the M mark (photo added by Michael) There are a lot of nativity scenes in my area this time of year celebrating the birth of Jesus. However, none of them are completely accurate if this story is to be believed. Today I’d …
Animal advocates in southern Utah have stumped up a $7k reward to find out who is shooting at cats and dogs in the area. The area is Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona places were you’ll find the crumbling remains of the polygamous, fundamentalist Mormon community. This isolated community, living in a bygone age, …
Christianity is behind the hatred of cats in the Middle Ages supported by the independence of the cat making them outsiders akin to atheists and all this was supported by papal bulls from three popes who were cat haters.
It is not haram to have a cat. Domestic cats are considered pure. This applies to what is in their mouth because Muslims are allowed to eat the food and drink the water that has been eaten and drunk by a cat.
It’s okay for Christians to hate cats so says a Christian writer on christiantoday.com. On another Christian website, the site owner says that if you don’t like cats you have a problem with the Lord. This is because the Lord made everything and everything he made is good. “Through him all things were made; …
It could be argued that 1233 is the year when people in general became suspicious about black cats. You can blame a gentleman whose name is Konrad von Marburg. The 13th century was a time of huge superstition. Heretics were demonised by the church. There was the Inquisition. Heretics were those people who held …
Dogs get a bum deal by Muslims. They see them as unclean. By this I mean ritually unclean. If a Muslim handles a dog he may need to ritually purify himself to get rid of their uncleanliness before praying. That is how I understand it. There are two stories in the papers today which …
All religions should promote cat welfare and, in fact, animal welfare. If religion does not do that and achieve progress in that goal it is not a worthy religion. It is a religion that is not worth being part of. This is supported by the well known Abraham Lincoln saying: ‘I care not much …
