People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to retire their groundhog and replace him with an animatronic substitute.
Every February 2, Phil is taken from his hole and held up to
flashing lights and crowds. PETA claims that this is a highly stressful
experience for him. They also claim that his current accommodations don’t allow
him to dig, burrow, or forage like normal groundhogs.
“It’s no kind of life for these animals,”
according to PETA’s president. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club could not be
reached immediately for comment.
Articles appear in the news daily about ways robots and
artificial intelligence can and will replace humans. We’re told that entire
industries that can be automated are at risk.
Of course, this has been the way of progress across history.
Horses as a mode of transportation were largely replaced by automobiles driven
by humans, which may now be replaced by autonomous vehicles. Automation is
affecting everything from farming to factory workers to individual
entrepreneurs.
I was a typesetter in college, using machines that have now
been obsolete for more than three decades. In fact, the occupation of
typesetting is now obsolete as well. I became a graphic artist while in
seminary, a manual job that has been replaced by software tools nearly anyone
can use.
However, while human innovation changes, human nature does
not. I feel the same fears and cherish the same hopes as my grandparents and
their grandparents. As a result, God’s word is just as relevant as when it was
first inspired.
An unchanging word for a changing world
Consequently, Christians do not need to “make the Bible
relevant” today. Our job is to communicate the intended meaning of the
text to the issues and opportunities of our day, knowing that the same Spirit
who inspired the Bible will use its timeless truth in our lives.
Scripture is still “profitable for teaching,…
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