Clergy: Veggie Jesus Ad Is Sacrilegious

AP - My Yahoo ^ | April 18, 2003 | Associated Press

[Calpernia]

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Christian and Jewish clergy say a billboard that promotes vegetarianism by claiming "Jesus was the prince of peas" is historically inaccurate and sacrilegious.

The billboard includes a picture of Jesus with an orange slice in place of a halo and was erected by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, to coincide with Passover and Easter.

PETA's Bruce Friedrich said the campaign is meant to provoke the thought that if people are eating meat, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

"The way that animals are treated on factory farms and slaughterhouses is egregiously cruel and mocks God," Friedrich said.

But Rabbi David Ostrich of Temple Beth-el, said historical evidence indicates that Jesus, like other Jews of the time, was a meat eater. He said a ritual part of the Passover meal was a lamb slaughtered in the Temple in Jerusalem.

[Calpernia]

Humor of the Day

[SubMareener]

Not only did Jesus eat meat, but He cast demons out of people into pigs!

[Calpernia]

The catholics didn't enjoy that billboard :)

[Calpernia]

hmmm, possessed bacon :)

[k2blader]

Hm, PETA and Christophobic billboards. I sense a pattern.

PETA sign equates pig with Lamb (He died for your sins)

[kcvl]

If you find that funny, you will love these...

http://www.peta.org/mc/ads.html#veg

[Calpernia]

PETA.org

[Calpernia]

I smell a new version of the Carni'ran (carnivoir + Koran)

[k2blader]

Haa!!

:-)

[Calpernia]

AHHH! Some of those ads were horrible!

[Calpernia]

This is disgusting!

Anyone hear this court case?

http://1010wins.com/siteSearch/winstopstories_story_094150731.html

Or it is now politically correct to deny your baby proper nutrition as long as no animals were harmed?

Two parents accused of nearly starving to death their infant daughter by putting her on their own strict diet were found guilty Friday of assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.

[Jhoffa_]

I thought John the Babtist would have come much closer to the "vegan" model than Christ.

Regardless, their ad is insulting. Every Christian should be offended at this numbskullery.. (well, it's a word now.)

[Calpernia]

Found their ad:

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[Rockitz]

Vegetarians are weak in faith, so this could be expected.

Paul says in Romans, "Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables."

Romans 14:1-2

[Chairman Fred]

"Nuns with Guns".

Has a certain ring to it..

[Calpernia]

If you get a second, check out the ad here: http://www.peta.org/pdfs/adjcveg.pdf

See some of the spins PETA is throughing out there. Now Jesus never caught fish. The fish was only symbolic of Christians.

Yup, Carni'ran.

[nickcarraway]

Dis anyone read the parable of the Prodigal Son? and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry; 24 for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to make merry. Luke 15:25 From the context of this parable, killing the fatted calf is not seen as anegative thing.

[EBITDA]

John the Baptist would offend the Petans because he ate locusts.

[Calpernia]

[Jhoffa_]

Yes, locusts & honey..

But a "locust" isn't an animal, right?

PETA = People for the ethical treatment of animals.

Ahh, then again you're probably right. There's no sense in expecting them to be logical or consistant.

I am frankly surprised they aren't out protecting "endangered" bacteria and viruses by now.