Dale Partridge - Has Pet Idolatry Become A Cultural Craze？ - Dale Partridge

00:00:00.000 On this episode of Real Christianity, 0.56

00:00:01.200 we are talking about the cultural obsession

00:00:03.940 of pet idolatry.

00:00:06.280 It's something that is plaguing America

00:00:07.680 and it's important.

00:00:08.600 All that coming up right now. 0.62

00:00:28.480 Welcome to Real Christianity. 0.82

00:00:29.540 my name is Dale Partridge. We are going to have a great conversation about pets today.

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00:01:51.220 All right, we're gonna dive into this conversation

00:01:53.900 the cultural obsession of pet idolatry.

00:02:01.900 Okay, to be clear, just to start it off,

00:02:03.960 I want you to know that I love dogs.

00:02:07.420 We're actually planning to get ourselves

00:02:10.480 a Rhodesian Ridgeback. 0.68

00:02:12.700 When we move, we're in the middle of trying to build a house 1.00

00:02:16.480 and we're going to have some acreage 0.99

00:02:18.540 and we want to have a Rhodesian Ridgeback there

00:02:21.360 to help protect our children from mountain lions and some of the other coyotes and different things

00:02:26.580 that are ranging around the area that we live. Now, I want to say this because I'm not saying

00:02:33.820 that Christians shouldn't have pets. This is not the focus of the discussion. I want you to take

00:02:40.180 this within context of what I'm really talking about, as you will see here in a second. So this

00:02:46.600 week, I released a tweet that said, quote, the absurd number of dog parks being built across

00:02:53.500 America is telling. We have rejected children to such a degree that many cities are building more

00:03:00.280 recreation sites for pets than playgrounds for kids. Namely, our culture is so selfish that it's

00:03:07.300 now shaping civics. All previous generations would see spending $225,000 of taxpayer money on pet

00:03:14.560 pleasure, as foolish and idiotic. But cities always follow culture and culture always follows 1.00

00:03:21.220 what they worship. When Christ isn't seen as Lord, pet praise and childlessness are two sad

00:03:28.760 consequences." So this was kind of a bit of a social media storm. And actually, I believe the

00:03:35.980 comments proved my point, as you will see many people on Instagram, I think there was over 500

00:03:40.920 comments there, defending this cultural desire and obsession and fixation on pet idolatry. You can

00:03:50.760 see it clearly in the comments. I posted it also on Twitter, which there's a little bit of a storm

00:03:56.140 there as well. I found a quote by GK Chesterton that I thought was quite fitting for our discussion

00:04:02.240 today. He says, quote, wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice, end quote.

00:04:09.600 Now, this is certainly true of our culture, which is bloodthirsty when it comes to abortion

00:04:15.660 and compassionate when it comes to adopting or caring for a pet.

00:04:20.160 We all know that in America, it'll cost you about $5,000 and up to one year in jail if

00:04:26.380 you damage or destruct an eagle egg.

00:04:30.000 I think it's even if you touch an eagle egg.

00:04:32.760 While anyone, say, in a state like California can kill their baby all the way up to full 0.56

00:04:36.920 term.

00:04:37.200 Now, I'm fully aware of the kind of vast responsibility between the differences, I should

00:04:45.340 say, between the cost of a pet and the cost of a child. But I just want to say something to

00:04:49.500 illustrate a point. In America, animal adoptions are about 22 to 1 over human adoptions. 3.5

00:04:59.500 million pet adoptions are happening per year and about 135,000 human adoptions per year. And I

00:05:06.700 know you're thinking, of course, adopting a child is like $35,000 and kids are way more expensive

00:05:10.940 and all the things that are coming up. The reality is, is that in our culture, you know, people spend

00:05:16.820 that much money on their pets, as you're going to see here just in a second. I actually was looking

00:05:20.480 up online. I was trying to find some stats on the cost of raising a child. There's varying, like

00:05:27.820 wildly, radically different numbers on the internet, but I was trying to find even just

00:05:33.340 stats on babies, what it would cost for a baby. And people were trying to say that it was like

00:05:38.080 $1,500 or $2,000 a month. And I'm like, I've had three babies and I'm about to have another one.

00:05:43.420 And there's no way that we're paying $1,500 to $2,000 a month for this baby.

00:05:47.820 They were all these liberal sites that were factoring in like

00:05:51.020 formula and all these other things that you just don't need and not take any consideration

00:05:58.980 that your hand-me-down clothing or gifts from a baby shower or any of these things.

00:06:03.340 And so they wanted to make having a child seem like financially burdensome.

00:06:08.520 That was really the overarching theme of all these websites.

00:06:12.260 And so, yes, children, you know, have a price.

00:06:16.740 But today, the amount of money that people spend on pets, it's not much different.

00:06:22.180 And so, but my point is what I'm saying is that we have a culture,

00:06:26.160 essentially, that has literally designed itself to offer things like human abortions

00:06:32.540 and pet adoption for basically free, right? 0.89

00:06:36.880 So you can kill a baby and adopt a pet for basically free,

00:06:41.640 while hospital birth of a child and human adoption 0.97

00:06:46.320 is like tens of thousands of dollars.

00:06:48.700 So what we have is a society that rewards people

00:06:51.680 with convenience and the removal of financial barriers 0.60

00:06:55.580 when it comes to killing children

00:06:57.620 and acquiring a pet for its citizens.

00:07:01.920 And it burdens those same civilians when it comes to adopting or caring for children.

00:07:08.560 And so we have something that's going on even systematically in our culture.

00:07:12.680 Essentially, what I'm trying to say here is that in America, we are disincentivizing a culture of children and promoting a culture of pets.

00:07:24.340 That's really at the core of our societal ethos right now or our legal system or our financial system or our social system at the very least.

00:07:36.780 And so we have things that are changing all around us in regards to pets.

00:07:40.800 We have pets on planes and in grocery stores now.

00:07:43.280 We have pets in strollers and we have pets in car seats now.

00:07:47.120 We have pets with insurance policies and annual dental work.

00:07:51.840 We have doggy daycares.

00:07:53.860 We have dog sitters. We have vegan dogs. We have pets named after their grandparents. That was a

00:08:00.180 real thing I saw online. We have dogs that take Xanax and organic supplements. We have pets that

00:08:07.000 have birthday parties. We have people calling themselves dog moms and dog dads and referring

00:08:12.920 to themselves or their pets as fur babies. On top of that, we actually have a market.

00:08:18.760 I think the global market share that I saw online for pet clothing was $5 billion for pet clothing.

00:08:26.920 And so to not see the culture's movement to view pets as the replacement for children

00:08:33.520 is just utter blindness. I mean, this is certainly happening right before our eyes.

00:08:39.220 Doug Wilson said in a video on this topic, he says, quote,

00:08:43.460 people are projecting onto their pets sentiments and affections that ought to be rendered toward

00:08:49.760 a child, end quote. This is certainly what we're seeing. We have a culture that has elevated

00:08:56.340 animals to a place of intrinsic value or esteem that is reserved strictly for humans. And it's

00:09:04.080 not that we should reject the care for pets. We like pets. The problem is not the animal here.

00:09:09.080 But what we're having is that people are prioritizing them over children and then raising them to this societal status where they have equal care, protection, and dignity before the law or before at least the cultural theme of the day.

00:09:30.800 And what this does is it actually makes, when you elevate animals to be essentially the same

00:09:39.240 as humans, you essentially say that humans are animals. And that's really what's behind this

00:09:46.640 way of thinking for this community that's pushing this movement. Bible-believing Christians are not 0.97

00:09:52.020 the ones that are aggressively driving the movement of pet idolatry in our culture.

00:09:58.300 It's really the liberals and the atheists that are doing that.

00:10:01.620 The truth is pets and humans are not the same.

00:10:04.580 They're not the same.

00:10:06.000 Humans are made in the image of God.

00:10:07.940 Pets are not.

00:10:09.520 Humans have eternal souls.

00:10:13.200 Animals do not.

00:10:14.900 Humans will experience the resurrection of their bodies.

00:10:18.040 Animals will not.

00:10:19.840 Now, I know there's a big discussion on,

00:10:21.480 will there be animals in heaven?

00:10:22.560 I believe there will be animals in heaven.

00:10:24.000 I don't believe every animal that ever lived on earth

00:10:26.400 will be resurrected and be in heaven because we have the restored heavens in the earth.

00:10:31.760 This earth will actually be restored. I believe that God will actually have animals in the new

00:10:36.840 heavens and new earth, but I don't think it's going to be the animals that we had on this earth.

00:10:40.880 And so this is important to just see as an overarching theme because our death cult culture

00:10:48.500 is rapidly decreasing the value of human life. And one way that they're doing that is by elevating

00:10:54.680 the life of animals to be essentially equal to the life of humans. In a study mentioned by Dennis

00:11:01.840 Prager, 40 to 50% of people said that they would save their dog over a stranger in a life-threatening

00:11:09.700 situation. Again, this just simply illustrates the misprioritized station our culture is nurturing

00:11:20.280 around pets. And it shows, again, us rendering those sentiments and affections that Doug was

00:11:28.320 talking about toward animals in an improper way. According to the World Animal Foundation,

00:11:34.620 the pet care market is worth $207 billion around the globe. But the U.S. citizens radically,

00:11:41.820 actually, this is a fun fact, outspend the rest of the world on pets. $123 billion per year we

00:11:49.960 spend on pets. The UK pet owners, I believe this stat is right, only are spending about $7.5 billion.

00:11:56.760 That was double, however, since 2005 in the UK. China spent $31.89 billion. Europeans spent around

00:12:05.300 $21.2 billion. And Australians spent $30.7 billion. But again, we have $123 billion per year

00:12:13.900 that America is spending on the pet industry.

00:12:17.640 I also heard a quote that there are now more pets

00:12:20.760 in Portland, Oregon and Seattle and San Francisco

00:12:23.700 than there are children.

00:12:24.640 That obviously makes sense.

00:12:26.600 That shouldn't probably shock anyone

00:12:28.220 because nobody's getting married anymore.

00:12:30.120 Nobody's having kids anymore

00:12:31.220 because we are living in a society

00:12:32.780 that is incredibly selfish.

00:12:34.900 And so it makes me think of a quote by Leonard Ravenhill

00:12:38.320 who said this probably 70 years ago.

00:12:41.940 He was born in 1907.

00:12:43.360 So, you know, in the middle of his ministry, I'm thinking is maybe in the 1950s, but he

00:12:48.740 says, quote, today, Christians spend more money on dog food than missions, end quote.

00:12:55.020 Honestly, I would not be shocked to learn that the average Christian spends more money

00:13:01.480 on their pet than they do giving to their church or giving to the poor or supporting 0.53

00:13:08.680 missions or other parachurch ministries around the world.

00:13:12.860 Pets have truly become an idol in this generation,

00:13:16.020 and it has certainly influenced Christians in the church

00:13:19.280 because we're not questioning

00:13:20.500 why we're doing some of these things in the culture.

00:13:24.900 Previous generations would look at this

00:13:26.380 as radically strange, odd behavior.

00:13:30.520 People are literally satisfying their need for love,

00:13:34.860 this desire for love with their pets.

00:13:37.620 They become essentially the replacement figures

00:13:40.360 of spouses or children, or in some cases, God, they literally wake up. The priority of their

00:13:48.500 day is to care for their dog and to receive love from their dog and to give love to their dog.

00:13:53.600 And again, they're reprioritizing where that love should be focused upon something that is

00:14:03.960 not the object of right affection. And so this is a multifaceted problem. So I know that you're

00:14:12.000 thinking about all the reasons why these things happen. And I'll talk a little bit about that in

00:14:16.060 a second. But 1 John 2.15 reminds us, it says, quote, do not love the world or the things in

00:14:23.620 the world, end quote. Now, I'm going to make a case that things in the world could include

00:14:29.660 creatures that were made that are not humans. I'm thinking that things in the world could

00:14:36.120 include a cat or a dog. It is a creature and we shouldn't be worshiping or idolizing the creature

00:14:42.100 ever. All of our affection and worship and focus should be going towards God primarily.

00:14:48.880 Animals are not a primary place to receive or to offer love. They're not a primary place.

00:14:57.680 Okay, just hear me out here. They're not a primary place to offer or receive love. Now, the primary place is God and the secondary place is from people and those people have an order themselves. I mean, a husband should love his wife in a primary way and love his children in a primary, even secondary way and should love the people of his church, the people of God in a way and then there's love people in the world.

00:15:25.040 I mean, so there's, there is some degrees. I mean, we definitely have a discriminating love. I mean, I'm not supposed to love other women the way that I'm called to love my wife. I have a discriminatory dimension of that love. There's a hierarchical structure of love. The fact that I love my wife in a way that I don't love other women doesn't mean that I don't love women. It means that I don't love other women the way that I love my wife.

00:15:50.540 And the same thing is true is that Christ loves the church in a unique way, in a special way.

00:15:56.840 And so we have to realize that there's really not any passage of scripture calling us to love

00:16:02.540 animals. It doesn't exist. Now, what I will say is that we're called to care for animals

00:16:08.680 as they're glorious creatures that God has given to us. We are called to enjoy them,

00:16:16.460 use them for fulfilling God's mission upon our lives.

00:16:20.220 We might have animals that help us provide for our families

00:16:23.960 and feed our families, might work for our families

00:16:27.420 and be tools for our families,

00:16:29.920 but we're never to place our love in a primary way

00:16:35.040 into a pet or an animal.

00:16:37.120 That is a misprioritization of love.

00:16:40.820 And I think that is something,

00:16:42.340 sure, if you're listening to this podcast,

00:16:44.060 that probably isn't you,

00:16:45.440 but what I want you to realize is that we live in a world where that certainly is true of many

00:16:51.680 people. I want to talk just about this boom of dog parks for a second, because I think it really

00:16:58.340 is, again, telling. The boom started in 1979, and guess where? San Francisco, right? Of all places,

00:17:08.480 the dog park became essentially part of the liberal agenda of that time and has pushed

00:17:17.700 forward. It becomes essentially the easiest and most visible representation of this cultural

00:17:23.200 shift from children to pets. I think it's, again, it's not about the dog. It's not even about the

00:17:29.240 dog park. Beneath the dog park is starting to tell us the cultural shift that's causing

00:17:36.020 the thousands of dog parks to be created across the country. And so, it's essentially a public

00:17:42.880 indicator of an already existing societal delusion or shift, craze, whatever you want to call it.

00:17:50.820 And so, the trust for public lands shows that there was a 40% increase in the development of

00:17:58.180 public dog parks from 2009 to 2020. I expect that is continuing to grow. In other words,

00:18:04.500 the idea of the dog park is going viral in a civics sense. And it's, why? Why is it? Just ask

00:18:14.740 yourself the question, why are we having so many dog parks? Well, because it's meeting the already

00:18:18.800 existing desires of the people of our particular culture. We have this obsession with animals and

00:18:25.980 pets because of a variety of reasons. And we are now essentially creating what we want.

00:18:35.580 In America, we have nurtured such a gross degree of individualism and self-autonomy and independence

00:18:42.080 that young people don't even know how to get married anymore. They don't know how to date

00:18:45.400 anymore. They don't know how to court. They don't know how to start a relationship. Young men don't

00:18:49.720 know how to talk to women. Women don't know how to be in relationship with men. Birth control is on 1.00

00:18:54.780 the rise for those people that do get married. Many couples are pushing back children to their

00:18:58.420 late 30s. And this basically what this does is it pushes back grandparenting back a decade or so.

00:19:04.920 And now millions of empty nesters have no progeny to nurture. They have no grandkids to take care of

00:19:09.880 to spoil with time and investment and energy. And what they do is they've quenched their desire for

00:19:16.000 grandparenting with the puppy. That's what's happening all over the place. And why does this

00:19:22.120 whole conversation matter for Christians? Is Dale just ranting about another thing and he's mad about

00:19:26.320 some other problem that's going on? Well, it's again, we're talking about the deeper issue,

00:19:31.160 the deeper cultural shift from a culture that loves children and cares for pets to a culture

00:19:38.620 that idolizes pets and hates children. And so Christians really are the ones that need to 1.00

00:19:46.420 define culture, not conform to it. And it's clear that we live in a culture that worships, or again, 1.00

00:19:54.000 idolizes at least, pets and is hostile toward children and families. I mean, it is so hard.

00:20:02.280 We're in the middle of renting a house. We have friends that are in the middle of renting a house.

00:20:06.160 You know how hard it is to rent a house with three, four, five kids? I mean, there's literally

00:20:10.820 laws that prevent you from having a certain amount of kids in a bedroom and they want you to have.

00:20:15.040 I mean, everything is against big families in this culture. 0.87

00:20:18.960 I actually just saw Matt Walsh's wife talk about how many crazy looks she gets 0.98

00:20:25.020 while she walks around with six kids in the grocery store. 1.00

00:20:27.860 And she said something about, we need to normalize big families again.

00:20:31.440 And I think that's absolutely correct.

00:20:33.800 Now, it's clear that, you know, we're not quite to the point where we're bowing down to pets.

00:20:40.800 You know, we're not necessarily worshiping them in the physical sense.

00:20:45.040 We're not praying to them, but we're, honestly, we're not far from it.

00:20:48.580 I've actually heard some pretty twisted new age stuff that has to do with dogs.

00:20:53.140 What I mean about this conversation about worshiping or idolizing pets is what Jesus

00:20:58.000 said in Matthew 6, 21.

00:20:59.500 He says, quote, for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also, end quote.

00:21:06.140 In partnership with MetLife, there was a survey of 2000 dog and cat owners that found that

00:21:12.980 52% of respondents said they spend more money on their pets than they do on themselves each year.

00:21:22.660 Honestly, it's not a shocking statistic because we live in a sad time where

00:21:26.900 people, again, that might be a normal thing if you change that out with children.

00:21:32.100 And you go, well, yeah, you should be spending that money on

00:21:35.060 your children and blessing them and giving them a great education and providing them the resources

00:21:41.220 and tools that they might need to flourish and thrive and give God glory. But no, we're talking

00:21:46.740 about spending more money upon your animal than you do on yourself. About 40% of those respondents

00:21:55.440 said that having a pet is just as expensive as raising a child. About six in 10 said having a

00:22:04.400 pet is more expensive than they initially thought. An equal percentage said that they specifically

00:22:10.540 allocate about $200 from each paycheck. So $400 a month just for pet necessities. Okay. So again,

00:22:19.140 this is an exorbitant amount of money that we're talking about that is a mainline trend here in

00:22:26.960 our culture. So ultimately, what do we need to do? What's the point of this conversation?

00:22:30.460 Christians need to catechize the culture to clarify that pets are not a substitute for children. 0.89

00:22:36.860 This is something, this is a trend 1.00

00:22:38.780 that should not be adopted by Christians. 1.00

00:22:42.900 God commands Christians to marry. 1.00

00:22:45.520 He commands us to be fruitful and multiply. 0.99

00:22:47.800 Yeah, if you are single, 0.92

00:22:52.180 the command to you is to marry.

00:22:54.380 If you're thinking about 1 Corinthians 7,

00:22:57.140 Paul is saying, hey, if you are gifted

00:22:59.220 with the gift of celibacy,

00:23:02.440 then you can remain celibate

00:23:04.920 for the purpose of full-time ministry to the Lord Jesus Christ. But the gift is celibacy. The gift

00:23:09.580 is not singleness. Singleness is not a gift. Celibacy is. And so we know that God desires.

00:23:16.580 It's not good for man to be alone. And when Adam was alone, he didn't create, you know, he didn't

00:23:25.140 say to Adam, hey, you know what, Adam, I'm enough for you. Or hey, the animals are enough for you.

00:23:31.340 No, he gave him a wife, he gave him a wife.

00:23:34.120 And so God wants us to be married if we're Christians.

00:23:38.020 And he also wants us to be fruitful and multiply.

00:23:42.160 So he wants those marriages to be fruitful

00:23:43.760 in the sense that they are physically fruitful,

00:23:46.700 but I would say also spiritually fruitful

00:23:48.620 that we are actually giving God glory.

00:23:51.660 So he wants the image of God to fill the entire world.

00:23:56.660 world. Now, this is, again, the central purpose of marriage is, I would say, fundamentally,

00:24:03.980 children. It's obviously to give God glory and to represent the gospel and all those things there.

00:24:08.600 Definitely sex, the fundamental purpose of sex is children. And what I want you to realize is that 0.52

00:24:17.120 having a pet does not make you a parent. That's really something that we need to

00:24:22.600 reverse in this culture's thinking. But again, practically speaking, we as the church and those

00:24:29.560 of you who are fathers or mothers that are listening to this episode need to demonstrate

00:24:34.600 the glory and enjoyment of marriage and children to those that are around you.

00:24:41.560 You also need to be sure that you have not elevated a pet in your house to such a place

00:24:47.760 that your child views them as an equal family member or like a brother. I've actually heard

00:24:53.480 people say like, oh, you know, we have seven members of our family and they have two dogs

00:24:58.640 or whatever it is. I would guard against that kind of language because it really tells a narrative

00:25:05.020 that's untrue and incongruent with the scriptures. So the solution to pet obsession, in my opinion,

00:25:12.420 really is child glorification.

00:25:15.820 Now, I'm not talking about improper glorification,

00:25:18.580 but to give them the glory that they deserve

00:25:21.860 according to the value that God gave children

00:25:25.800 and the purpose that God gave children.

00:25:28.880 And this will take probably a generation or two

00:25:33.140 of faithful parents that raise children

00:25:36.220 in the nurture and admonition of the Lord

00:25:38.620 to have these God-honoring, gloriously obedient,

00:25:44.800 you know, parent-honoring children that people see

00:25:48.940 and they go, oh, what a wonderful thing.

00:25:51.660 Look at these wonderful children.

00:25:54.000 Right now, we have such a generation of people

00:25:56.100 that don't know how to raise kids

00:25:57.500 because they don't know how to discipline children.

00:25:58.880 They don't know how to love children.

00:26:01.040 And instead they abuse them and pervert them

00:26:03.420 and distort them and they don't guide them

00:26:06.400 or shepherd them and they create,

00:26:08.160 essentially hellions that society ends up hating because they're disruptive or annoying or whatever

00:26:14.560 it may be. And so we need to, again, work to really show the world that kids are a wonderful

00:26:20.900 thing. We need to uphold the truth of scripture, that it's a blessing to have a child. And we do

00:26:27.860 this through a variety of means. Obviously, the reversal of Roe v. Wade was a huge push by the

00:26:34.200 church to make that move in our culture today. But when this is done and the beauty of children

00:26:40.360 is seen, I believe that really is the long-term approach to this problem of pet idolatry.

00:26:47.660 I think that just my own situation, we had a pet when we first got married and we would say 0.98

00:26:54.100 stupid things like, oh, we're practicing for parenting. It's such a dumb idea. And once we 1.00

00:26:59.520 had a child, you know, our pet became, you know, and it lowered in its station properly. And then

00:27:06.420 a second child, it lowered again, and a third child, it lowered again, and a fourth child,

00:27:10.740 right? Like we are, we are recognizing even us 10 years ago, we're falling prey to some of these

00:27:17.600 unbiblical concepts of pet idolatry. And so just watch yourself, watch the culture around you,

00:27:24.360 take witness to what's happening and, you know, really work on raising godly children that the

00:27:31.940 world can look at and go, amen, we love those kids. Let's get some more of them. So hopefully

00:27:37.960 this episode is helpful. A little rant on this discussion of pets. If you're a regular listener

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Dale Partridge - July 05, 2023

Has Pet Idolatry Become A Cultural Craze？ - Dale Partridge

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