Is hunting a sin?

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Just wanted your thoughts is hunting animals a sin if its done as an hobby. I never plan to hunt but wanted to know what are your thoughts…
 
Nope.

The steak you eat from the store came from a cow that’s just as dead as the deer that is the source of my steaks.
 
Perhaps if some shot and killed animals with no intention to actually use the animal. However, most hunters that do it for “sport” do still eat the meat.
 
WingsOfEagles said:
Perhaps if some shot and killed animals with no intention to actually use the animal. However, most hunters that do it for “sport” do still eat the meat.
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I have a cousin-in-law who has done hunting trips in Africa. He personally didn’t eat what he shot, but the local bearers, etc., butchered the animals and used everything but the bellow.

Not a sin.
 
Not a sin. I would love to hunt (I have my license and permits, I just lack the weapons at the moment, hopefully that will change after my 18th birthday in a few months)
 
Hunting is not a sin, but unethical if you kill an animal for anything other than to feed or clothe yourself or others.

I use to hunt, but grew out of it.

Henry David Thoreau’s words always come to mind when such discussions are brought up.
There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the “best men,” as the Algonquins called them. We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected. This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it. No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions. Such is oftenest the young man’s introduction to the forest, and the most original part of himself. He goes thither at first as a hunter and fisher, until at last, if he has the seeds of a better life in him, he distinguishes his proper objects, as a poet or naturalist it may be, and leaves the gun and fish-pole behind. The mass of men are still and always young in this respect. In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd’s dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd. Henry David Thoreau
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WingsOfEagles said:
Perhaps if some shot and killed animals with no intention to actually use the animal. However, most hunters that do it for “sport” do still eat the meat.
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But those who hunt for sport require a hunting license and is done to control the animal population, so it is not without cause.

Senselessly shooting or torturing animals for no purpose is disordered and would be considered sinful.
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Hunting is not a sin, but unethical if you kill an animal for anything other than to feed or clothe yourself or others.

I use to hunt, but grew out of it.

Henry David Thoreau’s words always come to mind when such discussions are brought up.

Jim
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So if it’s done for sport within the rules set by your State or Province’s conservation arm it is not unethical.

Properly controlled hunting improves herds.
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Hunting is not a sin, but unethical if you kill an animal for anything other than to feed or clothe yourself or others.
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I strongly disagree with this very very strange criteria on deciding when hunting is ethical/moral. There are other reasons to hunt which are perfectly ethical/ reasonable.
Sport, control of overpopulation, predator control are all good examples. Furthermore, just because one intends to eat the meat, hunting may be wrong: eg hunting an endangered species or violating other hunting laws.

Few people need to hunt to eat, yet as long as I eat the meat, hunting is ok?
 
No it is not a sin. If it was a large chunck of the posters here would in deep doodoo (inculding me)!! 🙂 😃

I can think of only one thing that may make it a sin and that is if you are hunting a fellow human being. :eek: 😛
 
As the AaA post stated, if it’s merely to derive pleasure from killing the animal, yes. But for meat and clothing…? Id be sinning right now stares at leather sofa. It’s not. I personally wouldn’t be able to shoot an animal. But I’m not vegan, so, really, I can’t say anything,
 
Why on earth would the OP think that hunting is a sin? I spent the fall & winter months salting and storing over 200 deer hides that were collected from hunters. The deer hides were shipped to a tannery to be made into leather and then given to the Iowa Veterans Home were veterans will make leather goods that they sell.
 
bzkoss236 said:
But those who hunt for sport require a hunting license and is done to control the animal population, so it is not without cause.

Senselessly shooting or torturing animals for no purpose is disordered and would be considered sinful.
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I think it gets into grey area if someone just shoots and leaves the animal (doesn’t happen often). My personal belief is that the animal should be used for food, clothing, etc.
 
tafan said:
I strongly disagree with this very very strange criteria on deciding when hunting is ethical/moral. There are other reasons to hunt which are perfectly ethical/ reasonable.
Sport, control of overpopulation, predator control are all good examples. Furthermore, just because one intends to eat the meat, hunting may be wrong: eg hunting an endangered species or violating other hunting laws.

Few people need to hunt to eat, yet as long as I eat the meat, hunting is ok?
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If you use the meat (or make sure someone does), then the animal didn’t die for nothing. There is also the factor of hunting your own versus buying it in the store. Some people might hunt in place of buying meats that were raised on a farm where animals lived poor conditions (if course there are more organic meats-but also more expensive).
 
Agree with much of what’s already been said–it’s generally not a sin to hunt for sport.

Also wanted to point out that, if you are not planning to use the meat yourself, many (if not all?) states will allow you to donate the meat (generally through a certified/licensed butcher) so that it can be used to feed the poor. That way, you can keep your “trophy” and still put the animal to good use. 🙂

Just my :twocents:
 
I don’t associate with hunters. I can’t really feel comfortable around someone who enjoys bloodshed for sport.

It’s often been said hunting controls the animal population, but that’s not true, it just throws it off balance. Besides, God put those animals there. Who am I to say I know better than Him?
 
No. Not a sin.

If you can recover the meat or the skin, that’s a good thing.

But, no, not a sin.

Some animals are outright dangerous pests … such as feral hogs … which can kill people easily and routinely destroy livestock and spread disease.

If an animal is a pest, as such, then hunting it and leaving the carcass for the vultures and foxes, is perfectly fine.

In addition, the population numbers of some animals has exploded out of control owing to the lack of natural predators and population control is needed.
 
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