I have been noting this more recently and it seems to be a trend, at least with people I converse with on the regular. The really religious types aren’t animal people or downright dont like them. The more chill or agnostic types seem to be more apt to love animals.
I could go on my theory of this but I’m interested to see if anyone thinks this is a trend.
They might just be more human friendly 🤷♂️. The atheist Western person often loves animals because they’re afraid of people (which turns into hatred after some years of propaganda and loneliness), can’t form or maintain proper relationships for a number of reasons (trauma, ideology that thinks men are wolves to their fellow man) and, sometimes, it’s because they can’t control people the way they can control animals.
This reminds me of that one line “I can tolerate racism but I won’t stand for animal abuse” or something like that by the blonde girl in Community, lol.
Ps: I have a big chubby cat called Jezebel that’s as pampered as a young princess, and I still understand that’s just an animal. If I had to decide on saving the lives of either a random person or my cat, I would save the random person with no hesitation. Who wouldn’t do the same besides thoroughly confused people?