Animal Rights Groups Attempting To Co-opt Religion
"Animal rights activists are using religious messages to recruit a segment of the millennial generation that has little doctrinal anchor in order to advance their vegetarian agenda," says Wes Jamison, an ordained Baptist minister and Palm Beach Atlantic University associate professor of communications.
Two major factors are driving animal rights groups' attempts to engage people of faith, Jamison says. The first is that people motivated by religion tend to give generously, which is important to the $400 million/year animal rights industry. The second reason is people motivated by religious zeal tend to have sustained intensity over time....