"According to the laws of man, a person can be hanged when he commits murder, but he is not hanged when he kills lower animals. But according to the laws of God, one commits the same sin by killing an inferior animal as he does when he kills a man. We are punished by the laws of God for any of those actions. Those who do not believe in the laws of God or in their existence can continue to commit such sins, and they cannot recapacitate despite the innumerable sufferings in which they are placed for committing such sins, but that does not affect the existence of God or his eternal laws."