On January 27, I sent this little text to my friends, after reading that it was the bats that were taken as scapegoats for the type of Coronavirus that we have not yet brought under control.
About Coronavirus.
Now, let’s surely not try to eliminate all the bats from the earth?
Well, the forests have not been planted by men, but by these beasts that do not bother anyone, but only by our ignorance and disrespect for nature that we call (Wild life), while the wildest species on earth are us, the Bipeds.
Here’s how some philosophers see us:
Biped
Masculine name .
Meaning : Animal, including man, who walks on two feet.
Synonym (1) Man , Male and Female
Quotes (4) “Man is first and foremost the race of a biped.”
Jacques Attali
“Man is an omnivorous biped who wears suspenders. « Thomas Carlyle »
Few bipeds since Adam have deserved the name of man. « Marguerite Yourcenar »
“Everything depends on the whim of two or three featherless bipeds who play with the human species.”
« Paul-Louis Courier »
While the so-called pure animals (per the Bible) are already transferring all their stresses which is the cause of a lot of disease which we suffer, what then of these animals that I would describe as untouchable.
If it is true that they are responsible for our setbacks, which I bitterly deplore, on the other hand, I would say that it is the revenge of static animals on dynamic animals that have failed to respect the privilege of being on the highest rung of the ladder that determines the level of importance of the creatures in creation.
See illustration below: Copied from the book: The Journey of Soul of : Rhada Soami Satsang Beas
From the Genesis of the world in the Bible, we had been warned about the inadmissibility of the consumption of animals entrusted to us to serve us, not to serve us as food, but, as in the case that matters to us now: Bats are there to plant our forests.
How do you understand the following verses?
Genesis 9:2-6
2 You will be a subject of fear and dread for every animal on earth, for every bird of heaven, for all that moves on earth, and for all the fish of the sea: they are delivered into your hands.
3 Anything that moves and has life will serve as food: I give you all this like green grass.
4 Only, you will not eat flesh with his soul, with his blood.
5 Know it too, I will ask for the blood of your souls, I will ask every animal again; and I will ask for the soul of man again from man, from the man who is his brother.
6 If someone sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for God made man in his image.
This was The Lord answers which as a blessing in disguised as a refusal to Noah’s sons who wanted to eat the animals. Could you say this was a permission as many religious leaders understands it ?
Do you believe that the behavior displayed by man gives credit to the image that God wants him to project?
Here is for our generation who claims to be civilized:
Roman 14: 1-2
1 welcome to one who is weak in faith, and do not argue about opinions. (I’m sorry to discuss it because feel compelled to do so according to what I see are being done.)
2 Such believes that he can eat everything: another who is weak, eats only vegetables. ( Meaning: To strengthen us, vegetables are the only prescriptions, animal meat makes us weak, just like now.)
Roman 20-21
20 for a food, do not destroy God’s work. In truth all things are pure; but it is wrong for man, when he eats, to become a stumbling block.
21 It is good not to eat meat, not to drink wine, and to refrain from what may be for your brother an opportunity to fall, scandal or weakness.
(I will not comment, you should make your own decision, all I can say, I your servant, I am a vegetarian for more than 30 years and I am doing well.)
However, I have a question, when are we going to respect all living as a whole?
The privilege of being endowed with the faculty of reasoning must also be accompanied by discernment. But, we launch ourselves headlong into all kinds of adventures believing we will express our superiority.
We must not confuse madness with wisdom, it looks like they go hand in hand. Is that a requirement? Let it be known that; one does not learn to be wise, you become wise.