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The Difference Between Human Beings and Animals

The first difference between human beings and animals is that human beings have the capacity for reason. In other words, a human being has the ability to think. What it is within a human that thinks is that person’s soul.

Adherents of materialism teach that what we have been referring to as the soul is nothing other than the quivering of brain cells. Our thoughts, our comprehension, our imagination, are all simply the result of the various kinds of movement of brain material. When motion is activated in the brain, it causes a certain kind of thought, so that each manifestation of the spirit of a man has a physical explanation that corresponds to this variation in motion. Our entire system of thought is the result of this activity in the brain, and the entire intellectual life of a person is dependent on its quantity and pace of development.

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First, what Peterson describes about art and creativity proves the existence of the spiritual characteristic of human nature, and therefore that materialism wrong. Even the World Health Organization describes a human being as body, mind, and spirit. Second, his quote about the psychology of human creativity helps us understand this passage from “The Human Being and the Animal World,” where Fr. Lezhohubskyi writes the following: “The difference between the supporters of materialism and the adherents of real science is like the difference between a statue designed and made by a self-taught but uneducated craftsman and a statue that is the work of art of an accomplished artist. The one and the other are both made from the same material, stone for example, but the former lacks the beauty of the latter.”

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Here is a response to those who support abortion on the grounds that it is impossible to know for certain if the human being in the pre-natal time of one’s development is willing one’s own existence and is not being forced into existence, It is also a voice of sanity against those who say that they reject the identity originally assigned them. Assigned by whom? Definitely not by the God of the Blessed Trinity, who gives this revelation in Isaiah: “And from the beginning I am the same… I will work, and who shall turn it away?” (Isaiah 43:13) Other translations reinforce the point that “no one can change what I do” and “who can reverse it?” There is also the problem of when this identity was “assigned”. At birth? At conception? In the early days of pre-natal development? Such a dilemma shows the relation between abortion ideology and gender ideology, both dependent on evolutionary theory for their sustenance, or rather feeding frenzy.

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“Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in 108 person, and is the foundation of fundamental rights and obligations[19]—is only one possible form of family. And they suggest calling unions of people with different mixes of genders, in which to be a parent means simply to perform a certain role, equivalent to the traditional family

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There is an origin to human life. What Fr. Lezhohubskyi raised as a problem in 1905 is a very contemporary heresy, the idea that we create ourselves. In The Human Being and the Animal World, he provides a philosophical context that is still valid today, contrary to what schools of social work teach, for example, about human autonomy that legitimizes euthanasia; their contorted use of language resulting in the phrase medical aid in dying. It is not a modern and liberating evolution of thought and progress, but the same discredited materialist talking points, the attitude that “I will kill you and make it look like health care.”

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Here is the concluding line of the book: “Between the world of the animal and the world of the human being there exits an abyss that cannot be bridged, and even for the most developed of animals it cannot be traversed.” Consequently, we have a powerful reply to those who raise their voice in anger and shout, “we euthanize our pets, and no one can tell me we cannot euthanize grandma.”

The role of the God of the Blessed Trinity in the origin of human life had a defender in Fr. Teodosii Lezhohubskyi in the past century, just as it has defenders in the 21st century. Ann Coulter, for example, has the book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Her publisher, Penguin Random House, promotes it in this manner: “Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In Godless, Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion)… and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident).

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The adversaries Fr. Teodosii Lezhohubskyi addresses manipulated science to reduce human consciousness, intellect, and soul to principles of physics, chemistry, and biology. Today’s materialist ideologues have whitewashed human exceptionalism while elevating the earth to an object of worship. Both philosophies are idolatry, worshipping the physical in the absence of the spiritual on the one hand, and imposing a spiritual quality on the merely physical on the other. Here is Fr. Teodosii’s valuable advice:

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You know you're a human being, right?

It's possible, though, you don't realize

What this means.

No one else has your laugh,

No one else suffers the way you suffer.

Even your eyes are one of a kind.

Tomorrow you will disappear

From this earth

While other people will take your place.

Someone else will live and love –

Someone who is good, gracious, or bad.

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You will grow up, my son

And you will choose your path in life

And there will accompany you as you grow

All manner of anxieties It will be for you to choose

Your friends and your wife

Though your homeland

Has already been chosen for you

Among your choices will be your companions

And your spiritual brotherhood

Though your own dear mother

Has already been chosen for you

This means that wherever you may wander

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