Do All Dogs Go To Heaven? New Books Seem To Think So

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I have a calling. Are you questioning my feelings?
Feelings are good. If God exists, God built the possibility of neurons into the universe at the creation, and neurons make feelings possible. I love my cat, and love is a feeling. If my cat will not be with me in the new creation, God’s purpose of instantiating the possibility of feeling will be frustrated.

Besides, there are many people I’d less like to spend eternity with than my beloved cat!
 
Geez, people!

Heaven is NOT like a mausoleum.

If you make it to heaven, you will be sharing ETERNAL JOY WITH GOD.

Do you really think you will be bothered about who else might be sharing God’s “space” with you? And what are you going to do - complain to God by saying, “Hey, God - you know, this heaven is fine and all, but I really would like my mother-in-law located somewhere else.”

I cannot believe how this question has taken a turn from animals in heaven to people thinking they are not going to like who is in heaven with them 🤷
 
Heaven is NOT like a mausoleum.
Of course not. but it’s imaginary, so we can imagine it how we want.
If you make it to heaven, you will be sharing ETERNAL JOY WITH GOD.
Indeed.
Do you really think you will be bothered about who else might be sharing God’s “space” with you? And what are you going to do - complain to God by saying, “Hey, God - you know, this heaven is fine and all, but I really would like my mother-in-law located somewhere else.”
If there is space in heaven, we may be concerned, as we would want our loved ones with us.
I cannot believe how this question has taken a turn from animals in heaven to people thinking they are not going to like who is in heaven with them
Start with a silly question and you end up with silly answers.
 
A Franciscan. Go figure.

Anyway, I’m willing to bet the same author denies that anyone goes to hell, including animals.

If knowing God as he is in himself is what heaven is all about, then what rationale is there for animals to be there? Unless perhaps they would exist for our sake.
i busted out laughing reading this… 😃

cuz for one thing, i never thought about animals going to Hell… that’s a funny concept…

but hey… this is a great argument against animals going to Heaven… cuz if they go There, they’d have to (some anyhow) also go to Hell, right??

Anyhow… i agree w/ your inference that this guy (the wirter) is a lib who thinks most people end up in Heaven… everyone except maybe ( then again, there’s always that MAYBE… can’t be judgmental… :rolleyes:) Hitler and Stalin, i reckon…

that’s not what Jesus said… He said tht there are “few who find” the way to etenral life…

(St Mt 7:13, 21… etc)

but what the heck, that was just Jesus…

What do others have to say on the subject?:rolleyes:
 
I may not know much…

but i know this one hting…

animals don’t go to Heaven…

i know this cuz i don’t like dogs… not too thrilled about cats either…

If there were dogs in Heaven i would NOT be… uh… in Heaven…

i guess i could have my own little pc of property… where i have a huge sign that says NO Dogs…

but then i don’t want big signs in Heaven either…
 
I may not know much…
but i know this one hting…
animals don’t go to Heaven…
i know this cuz i don’t like dogs… not too thrilled about cats either…
That’s a weak argument. I don’t like Republicans, but I would never say they don’t go to heaven just because I don’t want them there!
 
That’s a weak argument. I don’t like Republicans, but I would never say they don’t go to heaven just because I don’t want them there!
dont worry there will be no republicans in your heaven[for in my Father’s house there are many mansions] - but first just make sure you build your heaven here and then make sure you get there - seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things shall be added or subtracted for you - twinc
 
I may not know much…

but i know this one hting…

animals don’t go to Heaven…

i know this cuz i don’t like dogs… not too thrilled about cats either…

If there were dogs in Heaven i would NOT be… uh… in Heaven…

i guess i could have my own little pc of property… where i have a huge sign that says NO Dogs…

but then i don’t want big signs in Heaven either…
 
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twinc:
dont worry there will be no dogs in your heaven provided that …see reply to St.Anastasia - twinc
 
That’s a weak argument. I don’t like Republicans, but I would never say they don’t go to heaven just because I don’t want them there!
um… i was being somewhat facetious…

i don’t like democrats but i suppose one or two might might make it… (if they convert before death)😃
 
um… i was being somewhat facetious… i don’t like democrats but i suppose one or two might might make it… (if they convert before death)😃
I understand! I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Jesus would no doubt be apolitical if he lived here too.

I just don’t like the nonsensical question that provoked this thread – as if Homo sapiens is the only one our of tens of millions of species that have evolved on earth that God cares about.
 
I understand! I’m neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Jesus would no doubt be apolitical if he lived here too.

I just don’t like the nonsensical question that provoked this thread – as if Homo sapiens is the only one our of tens of millions of species that have evolved on earth that God cares about.
its not that he doesn’t care… . its that they don’t have souls… they don’t know right from wrong…

that’s why it was comical to think… i mean, you know… it was comical to ME… to think of a dog suffering in Hell for his sins… 😃 Ok, so i have a weird sense of humor… :o but anyhow…

seems kinda logical that if they don’t have a soul they wouldnt go to Heaven… and if they don’t also go to Hell… they … agan,… wouldn’t go to Heaven… Heaven & Hell are irrelevent, it would seem… to animals… .

when i was a child i could’t believe my beloved pets would not go to Heaven & be with me… but i grew up… Now it makes total sense to me that they wouldn’t go There… cuz… again… they don’t know right from wrong…

of course some humans don’t seem to either… but that’s beside the point…
 
iseems kinda logical that if they don’t have a soul they wouldnt go to Heaven… and if they don’t also go to Hell… they … agan,… wouldn’t go to Heaven… Heaven & Hell are irrelevent, it would seem… to animals… .

That’s a rather old-fashioned way to imagine "heaven ‘’ – as a “place” where souls go.
of course some humans don’t seem to either… but that’s beside the point…
 
i busted out laughing reading this… 😃
LOL … yeah, sometimes the wrongness of a position can be so clear that you need a degree to believe it.
Anyhow… i agree w/ your inference that this guy (the wirter) is a lib who thinks most people end up in Heaven… everyone except maybe ( then again, there’s always that MAYBE… can’t be judgmental… :rolleyes:) Hitler and Stalin, i reckon…
Godwin’s Law! Godwin’s Law! Conversation OVER!

But I wouldn’t be suprised if this guy believed Stalin was a good guy and that Hitler was just misunderstood.
 
LOL … yeah, sometimes the wrongness of a position can be so clear that you need a degree to believe it.
Godwin’s Law! Godwin’s Law! Conversation OVER!

But I wouldn’t be suprised if this guy believed Stalin was a good guy and that Hitler was just misunderstood.
You’re free to disagree with Fr. Wintz’ speculations regarding animals and heaven. You’re not free to trash an entire religious order (“A Franciscan. Go figure” you said in your first post on this.) Neither are you free to accuse a Catholic priest in good standing - based on that disagreement - of thinking that “Stalin was a good guy and that Hitler was just misunderstood.” That’s just vile. To say nothing of being calumny.
 
You’re free to disagree with Fr. Wintz’ speculations regarding animals and heaven. You’re not free to trash an entire religious order (“A Franciscan. Go figure” you said in your first post on this.) Neither are you free to accuse a Catholic priest in good standing - based on that disagreement - of thinking that “Stalin was a good guy and that Hitler was just misunderstood.” That’s just vile. To say nothing of being calumny.
Fine. But in the last 40 years I have heard some pretty vile things from what used to be trustworthy sources, and I’m telling you, it’s easy enough to predict a person’s other views based on a few hints.
 
i busted out laughing reading this… 😃

cuz for one thing, i never thought about animals going to Hell… that’s a funny concept…

but hey… this is a great argument against animals going to Heaven… cuz if they go There, they’d have to (some anyhow) also go to Hell, right??
Not if, “All Dogs Go to Heaven”.

Seriously, this seems to be an area outside of revelation, either way. I have kept checking back and searched myself. I can find nothing definitive. In this case, laughing at a Franciscan for speculating makes no sense unless:
  1. You think the whole topic too stupid for speculation.
  2. You find it laugable that someone would have a definite opinion on this.
In this case:
  1. You should not speculate that there are no animals in heaven
  2. You should not be definite in your opinions.
 
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