The animals were created to help humans. If we value them more than us, we are perverting the order of creation.
We are created to help the animals.
And no I don't ever believe I am a pervert for protecting them, helping them, and saving them.
They are nurtured, allowed to have a good quality of life in my hands, I can't see how G-d would condemn me for that.
I ask no other to do as I do.
I no more believe animals are evil than a new born child.
If this means G-d will reject me from entering heaven, then so be it. I could not bear the thought of loving G-ds creations as being wrong.
Or standing back and allowing the abuse and evil of man to go on about me, and forcing me to do nothing.
I prefer to be dead than live a enslaved soulless life.
Not at all Skippy. I think you completely misunderstood. Not everything is a package deal in this world.
Just because I said animals have a more limited level of free choice and therfore a lower level of soul, does NOT mean they are evil.
Animals in many ways are better than humans and we have an obligation never to harm them needlessly.
It is not a sin to care for animals, it's a wonderful thing. But when you value them more than human life, then things have simply gone out of proportion.
However, man was NOT created to serve the animals. If the animals were leading us the human race would all be dead pretty fast.
It's the other way around. Animals can do things we can't like plow a field all day...for instance. Each creation has it's own unique purpose. When each one fulfills it's mission, then that's pure good.
P.S. Perverted doesn't mean a "pervert" in the sexual sense of the word. Look it up. It just means things have gone out of whack.
G-d created man last, and he went UP in levels as he created stuff.
There is a certain order to this creation, a certain reason why G-d created some things before others, and we need to be aware of this order if the world is to function properly.