Megachurch Pastor Over Gorilla’s Death: Americans Have Lost Their Minds

Megachurch pastor Perry Noble is fed up with America’s reaction to Harambe the gorilla—namely, that hundreds of thousands are enraged an animal had to die for a child to live.  

The NewSpring pastor does not beat around the bush when addressing the more than 300,000 who called for #JusticeForHarambe.  

I wonder if the same 300,000 people have been equally bothered by Christians being beheaded/tortured in the Middle East?
I wonder if the same 300,000 people were as upset when all of the dirt was exposed on planned parenthood?
I wonder if the same 300,000 people were as upset when Dr. Kermitt Gosnell murdered a child after a botched abortion?
I feel bad for the gorilla…but…I would argue that human life simply has more value.
The Bible states in Genesis 1:27 that God made man and woman (and no other creature) in His own image.
Psalm 139 talks about how we were custom designed by the hands of our Creator. 

The sentiments sound eerily familiar, as similar thoughts circulated when a dentist hunted and killed an African lion named Cecil.  

The shooter, Walter Palmer, was stalked and harassed, unable to leave his home.  

Now, the mother of the boy Harambe was shot to save faces similar predicaments.  

“But now we are reaching the next—and scary—phase of these kinds of stories, in which an internet mob demands that someone pay for the death,” Variety’s German Lopez writes.  

“Specifically, people are asking for punishment of the parents of the (3-year-old) boy who was able to crawl into Harambe’s enclosure. They argue that the gorilla’s death is really the parents’ fault, because the parents didn’t pay attention to their kid, and the zoo only had to kill the gorilla once the child snuck in and was put in danger,” Lopez said.  

Noble argues, as does the boy’s mother, Michelle Gregg, that the boy’s fall was an accident. The zoo director himself argued he would make the same call to shoot Harambe if given a do-over.  

While the internet mob clacks death threats against the family, Noble stands by the Greggs and the zoo.  

“However, it was very clear in this situation that a human life was at stake and when you consider that life against the feelings of some people who most likely never even saw the gorilla, putting the gorilla down, though tragic, was absolutely the right call,” he concludes.