Christianity asserts that humans are the highest form of intelligent life created by God, that we alone are created in the image and likeness of such a divine "intelligence," and all other species are lesser forms of intelligence than our own.
As a religion, however, Christianity uses commands to tell us what and how to love and to live, and why, and for our obedience or disobedience to its commands - which it assures us come unfiltered directly from "God" - it promises heavenly reward or threatens eternal punishment.
As a result, Christianity wants us to believe that the highest form of intelligence God created on earth must be treated and trained as no better than that of a dog being trained not to piss inside on the rug, while denying that God had any moral obligation to come up with a better “plan” to save us all from the Auschwitz he keeps fully operational in the afterlife called hell (in which he intends to keep our pain receptors equally healthy and fully operational for all eternity as well), even while insisting such a "divine intelligence" could easily have done so.
This is exactly like worshiping a dog owner who throws disobedient dogs who fail to follow his commands into an open fire while denying that dog owner has any responsibility to either come up with a better system for training his dogs or to do something with the dog that does not require unnecessarily torturing it to death.
But if you're a Roman Catholic, the only command you must follow to avoid being thrown into the fires that are kept burning by your God is NOT to question the "wisdom" of such training, but to argue that all those who find themselves being burned alive for all eternity - God's sinfully disobedient "dogs" - clearly deserve it.
And that is the moral yardstick that Catholics insist makes a person "better," by being terrorized into obedience, and calling it "love."
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