Dog fights

Another good one from Pastor David Whiting:

I like animals, I really do, but COME ON...

Posted: 23 May 2009 08:52 AM PDT

Most of you have heard the story of Michael Vick. He just completed a two-year prison term because of a dog fighting conspiracy. For the next two months he will be on home confinement - except for church attendance and work.  He will be holding a construction job. He desires to get back into NFL, but many are saying that he should have a lifetime ban from the NFL. It seems, from what I read, that a majority of people feel he shouldn't be allowed to play football again.

And what bothers me about that is the story of Leonard Little.

Little is a NFL player for the St. Louis Rams.  He got drunk after a birthday party, got behind the wheel of a car and ended up killing another woman. He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, served 90 days in jail and went right back to the NFL. He was arrested again later for drunk driving, but he still plays for the Rams.

I just don't quite understand why Leonard Little takes a life because of a conscious decision to drink and drive and he still plays in the NFL. Michael Vick is guilty of cruelty to animals and many feel he should receive a lifetime ban from the game. What Vick has done is horrible and if being a felon automatically results in a lifetime ban from the sport, I'd be okay with that. But it is the inconsistency in people's judgments that bothers me. 

Am I looking too deeply into this to say that it is a result of our culture no longer believing that human beings are made in the image of God?  Am I reading too much into it to say that this is the result of a belief in atheistic evolution?  If atheistic evolution is true - why are human beings more valuable than dogs? They aren't because we are all here by chance - not by the special design and creation of The Creator.

In fact, it almost seems - based on these two stories - that perhaps the dogs are more valuable than people.