'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.' A simple phrase that completely destroys your argument.
If a horse can think for itself, then Darwin was right all along, re. the Great Apes - especially Chimpanzees. Thanks for reinforcing the Facts of Evolution, via neurological evidence.
Chimps can be trained, but they're still wild animals. Despite training, a fully-grown male chimpanzee is so strong, he can rip your head off without knowing it. Dogs =/= apes.
...but I guess you lot are right, re. animals not having 'souls'. After all, when was the last time a leopard killed a gazelle over it's religious beliefs - or lack of such? Show me footage of a huge group of gazelles chasing & ultimately bullying a leopard to force it to become vegetarian (ending with scenes of it eating grass, alongside said gazelles), and I will become a Christian, no questions asked.
Good luck with that, though.
Moral: The day you can force a person to believe, as well as go through the motions, is when - at the same time - you can persuade a lion to eat nut loaf & granola. Or, like that nutbar in Kiev did, believe that your God would make that lion eat said Vegan food, and not you. Forcing a system of belief (political and/or religious) on people is ultimately doomed to failure. Just ask Muammar Gaddafi.
@Canuovea
Well there was an alternative to dealing with 'witches' the way they did:
Live and let live.
It wouldn't have killed them to be tolerant, would it not? Right-wing fundies to this day, take note. Three words: Quakers. Unitarian Universalists.
