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New theological trend of confessing sins to plants leaves vegetarians with much to answer for
American Thinker ^ | 09/20/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/20/2019 7:33:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Do leftists ever think through the implications of their bright lightbulb poppings?

One of their latest stupidities, via Glen Reynolds of Instapundit (who has a fine curation), came a couple days ago from the Presbyterian side of things, with seminarians at New York's Union Theological Seminary offering up their 'confessions' to plants, an act than makes even less sense than trying to talk to a goat.

According to the Washington Examiner, they tweeted:

"Today in chapel, we confessed to plants," the nation's oldest independent seminary declared Tuesday on Twitter. "Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor. What do you confess to the plants in your life?"

Which sounds nice until you recognize the implications of the whole idiocy for those who eat plants, such as vegetarians.

After all, I actually eat plants myself, wolf them down actually, and if the idea is to apply human standards to the flora and fauna, it's hard to find a more monstrous act than fricassee-ing up that spinach with diced garlic, or boiling that broccoli up in stir-fry sauce ... and eating it. I grow my own food actually and tear off the ears from the corn and rip out the beets by the roots, and slice into little pieces those tomatos I grow with a vicious knife and watch them bleed, tearing them away from their mother bush ... and eating them.

Then I do even worse ... serving them up with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

And by this stupid leftwing logic, I am far from the biggest sinner against plants for the now-confessable act of eating them.


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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; climatesins; confession; sins; theology
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1 posted on 09/20/2019 7:33:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"Today in chapel, we confessed to plants,"


2 posted on 09/20/2019 7:35:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“leaves vegetarians with much to answer for”

Revolutionary Justice!

An eye for a leaf!


3 posted on 09/20/2019 7:37:29 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: SeekAndFind

Pagans making a comeback..


4 posted on 09/20/2019 7:38:38 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: SeekAndFind

I confess, my german shepherd dog peed on a plant and I didn’t stop him.


5 posted on 09/20/2019 7:39:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: BenLurkin

Students at Union Theological Seminary confess to plants.


6 posted on 09/20/2019 7:44:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Un-fricking-believable


7 posted on 09/20/2019 7:45:30 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Neo pagan schizophrenics now run seminaries.


8 posted on 09/20/2019 7:47:52 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: SeekAndFind

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4


9 posted on 09/20/2019 7:50:22 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (:¬| Beep beep)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this a prank by the instructor? It better be.


10 posted on 09/20/2019 7:50:51 AM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some people confess to their creator. And some people confess to their priest. And now some people confess to their marijuana plant. Had to happen I guess...


11 posted on 09/20/2019 7:52:14 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

The nice thing about confessing your sins to plants is that you can eat the plant and then no one will ever know what you confessed about.


12 posted on 09/20/2019 7:56:34 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, I guess Bro. Meliad could hear my confession.........


13 posted on 09/20/2019 7:57:19 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: SeekAndFind

Idiocracy was a documentary...................


14 posted on 09/20/2019 7:57:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, if they are Methodist plants.......Philo and Rhoda Dendron...............


15 posted on 09/20/2019 7:59:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: BenLurkin

Ask any vegetable, and the chances are good...
That the vegetable will respond to youuuuuu.

Book of Frank.


16 posted on 09/20/2019 8:00:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They definitely need to beg forgiveness for turning plants into cheeseburgers. Damn cannibals!


17 posted on 09/20/2019 8:10:13 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: faithhopecharity

Better than confessing to a pervy priest.


18 posted on 09/20/2019 8:20:45 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

The ancient idea of the scapegoat meant the goat would take on the sins of the people and be driven out into the desert. Does the plant take on the sins of the person who confesses to him/her/it? If it is a potted plant, it could then be taken out to the desert and left to die. Of course if a wild animal ate it first then the animal would carry the sins.


19 posted on 09/20/2019 8:25:53 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


20 posted on 09/20/2019 8:26:57 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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