On the Internet site of the German FINANCIAL TIMES Deutschland of November 28, 2005 is a report of the ecumenical worship service celebrating the opening and dedication of the new animal testing center at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen, Germany. There the Protestant-Lutheran woman pastor and the Catholic pastoral referent, who conducted the worship service, tried to make the audience believe that animals voluntarily make themselves available for the experiments. Quote: »I am a creature of God. I have feelings; sometimes I don’t feel like working. Sometimes I just lie around because I’m in a lot of pain. Sometimes I’m sad, because members of my family have died. But I feel good when I look at my home that so many people have given money for, only for us, the experimental animals. We make ourselves available; we do our best for good results. This is our profession. This is our task; that’s why we’re here. It isn’t an easy profession, because in the end, we have to die for mankind. For this, we expect gentleness, respect, care and thanks to God.«

As long as the churches deliver to the people who earn their money and prestige with animal testing the moral arguments for their deeds, they will be co-responsible for the suffering of the animals. This has nothing to do with the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. He came to redeem man and animal and all life from need and torture. He taught: »Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you!« or said the other way round: »Do not do to someone else what you do not want to have done to you!«