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Because the boards so slow...
A somewhat controversial questions stemming from a post on the Money Management board this weekend...
Do you think pets go to Heaven???
Re: Because the boards so slow...
I do believe in an afterlife, and I believe that we do go somewhere, where that is I'll only know when I go there (hopefully when I'm 95).
However, I was surprised at the amount of people who said they don't think pets go anywhere, and one that said that they can't go to Heaven because "God didn't give them a soul"...How do we know that, and aren't all animals God's creatures???
There were some funny responses, like one from someone who said it'd be akward to run into the cows you ate everytime you had a steak, and what that conversation would be, like.
If anything I think that if there is an afterlife, and its Heaven I'd hope that all the things that are important to me in life are waiting for me there in the afterlife, and that would include my dogs.
Sure. I would like to think that when I die I will get to see Rusty again. I have dreamt of my old dogs though - they seemed pretty happy in my dreams, so I'm assuming that they're happy wherever their souls are now...
Have you ever seen that show on TLC with the medium? What is it... Long Island Medium? She did a question and answer show and said that she also communicates with animals.
Haven't seen that show, I'll have to check it out.
Photo taken at 16 months old
This.
This reminds me of this Will Rogers quote:
"If dogs don't go to heaven, when I die I want to go wherever they went."
I am a Christian and I do believe in heaven and like a couple pps I have read in the Bible that animals will be in heaven so I like to think this is not all the time I will have with my pets.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
That makes me laugh. I wonder if the cows and other animals would follow us vegetarians around. We'd be like the pied piper of heaven.
If heaven exists, which I doubt most days, then I think animals would go there. LIke someone else said, why would god exclude anything he created?
Most of the time I look at the things my dog does and am convinced that reincarnation is true. The way she has selective hearing makes me think she was a husband at some point. And the way she watches my every move in the kitchen makes me think she was a chef.
Tired after a long morning of hiking and swimming.
I would love to believe this.. and keep believing it.
So then I pose this question: Who does your dog belong to in Heaven? We adopted our dog when she was 9... so someday she will pass on. Will she be my dog in heaven, or will she revert to her previous owners?
I don't believe in heaven, or a God for that matter. But - my boss is a born-again Christian, and we've talked religion at work. His view, which he has shared with me, is that our associations don't go with us to heaven. That his wife won't be his wife in heaven, she'll just be there with Jesus. Same with pets - they'll be there, but not as our pets. My boss' view is that everyone is equal and the same in heaven - people of "high" or "low" stature in our society (pastor/priest, president, famous people contrasted with criminals, homeless, the poor and disadvantaged) will just be people in heaven, and that our spouses/children/pets/family will just be people in heaven. He has said that as long as you claim Jesus as your savior, you'll be with everyone else, all equal, in heaven.
It's just another way of looking at it, of course.
I just believe that once I die, I'll go back to the earth. My spirit will hopefully live on in the minds and hearts of the people living that know me, and I believe the same for my pets.
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Ditto Anita (as always!)
When I was a child and believed in heaven, my church (pentecostal) taught that animals did not go to heaven. They were not made in god's likeness and therefore did not have a soul. One of my earliest rebellions against my church's teachings was choosing to believe that my dog would go to heaven. I couldn't see the point of going to heaven if my pets (and my "unsaved" friends, for that matter) wouldn't be there with me.