Moral persons

(cont'd)

It's hard to believe that people would claim something so nonsensical as legal personhood for chimpanzees, though they are being consistent with their worldview which says that there's nothing special about human beings (you have to wonder how they can deny the specialness of humans).

William Wilberforce was one of the founders of the SPCA. As a Christian, he appealed to humans' moral responsibility to kindly care for animals - and this was consistent with his worldview that humans are accountable persons who can choose to do what's morally right.

Sometimes you hear that Christians have no business "moralizing," that they should keep their values to themselves, that God's standards are not for the world at large but just for believers. I have to disagree. God's standards for behavior are light in the darkness of a confusing world.