Posted on 07/23/2006 6:39:58 PM PDT by fruitarian108
What you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me.
CATHOLIC VEGETARIAN SAINTS
St Francis of Assisi, St Clare, stigmatist St Therese Neumann, St. Martin de Porres, St John Chrysostom, St Anthony of Padua who preached to fishes when humans would not listen.. St Nicholas of Tolentino* believed they were following the example of Jesus in not eating His animals. Trappists, Cistercians, Benedictines, Franciscans all have had a tradition of vegetarian diet, to which many still adhere. The pretzel was says George Cornell former AP religion writer a Lenten bread, symbolizing arms folded in prayer.. Lentils were named as such because they were a Lenten vegetarian alternative to animal flesh. Meatless Fridays were the last vestige of early Christian abstinence from meat in following Christ's example. A papal bull once excommunicated anyone who attended a bullfight because the barbaric cruelty in them. This was later amended to excommunicate only priests who blessed bullfighting. BIBLICAL ORIGINS Genesis 1: 29, Isaiah 65, Daniel 1 Exodus 26: 34 are some of the thousands of quotes in the Bible on vegetarian diet. The command to feed the hungry, given by Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount, implies vegetarianism since the flesh of animals yields 100 to 1000 lbs an acre, dairy products around 10,000 lbs. an acre, some vegetables, 81,000 lbs. an acre, and fruits from centenarian fruit trees 450,000 or more lbs. an acre. Therefore Genesis fruit trees yield 450 times what slaughterhouses yield. Daniel O'Steen, of National Right To Life, felt he must be consistent in his prolife stance and so many years ago became a vegetarian. Clare Obis, mother of 6 boys, created a successful media campaign when Mike Royko refused to allow her vegetarian gluten ribs in his cooking contest.
(Excerpt) Read more at groups.msn.com ...
Jesus spent a lot of time with fishermen, and removed
them from their occupation of smothering and suffocating
the innocent creatures the consumption of whom causes
stomach cancer, heart disease, choking etc.
http://www.christianveg.com
Fish on Friday was the final vestige of early Christian
vegetarianism in following Christ's example.
Dear L,
To God all the creatures He created are sacred.
He drove the moneychanging butchers out of the temple.
The Essene Gospel of Peace is one of many texts indicating
that Jesus was a member of that vegetarian Galileean group.
If you heard the screams of the slaughterhouse, perhaps
you would understand.
A cannibal might say
"If God did not want us to eat humans why did He make
them taste like meat?"
Meat is more addictive than coffee, since the preurine
in animal cells is trioxypurine, stronger than caffein
which is dioxypurine.
If you miss meat buy a veggieburger and whiz on it.
Genesis: 1: 29
Behold I have given you herbyielding seed. To you it
shall be for food.
God designed a fruitarian Garden of Eden in which
what plants and trees and vines and bushes dropped in our
laps and at our feet was
what we were to eat.
Please acquaint yourself with what John Wesley, General Booth of the
Salvation Army, St Francis, Ellen White of the Seventh
Day Adventists said about their following Christ's example
in not eating flesh.
http://groups.msn.com/christianveg
Scroll down left side for General Booth text
Humor is an objective response to the suffering of others.
Unlike you I do not accept that the political appointee
traslators of the Bible given their positions by
the bisexual King James necessarily translated
Jesus' Aramaic or Paul's Greek correctly.
One translation is that Jesus said 'ye are whited
sepulchres'. The Greek translation of Jesus' Aramaic
is sarcophagi... which means literally sarx flesh phagi
eater. Jesus said "Ye are flesheaters" and
metaphorically that anyone who eats the corpse of an animal becomes
a sarcophagus or portable cemetery of that animal
Unlike you I do not accept that the political appointee
traslators of the Bible given their positions by
the bisexual King James necessarily translated
Jesus' Aramaic or Paul's Greek correctly.
One translation is that Jesus said 'ye are whited
sepulchres'. The Greek translation of Jesus' Aramaic
is sarcophagi... which means literally sarx flesh phagi
eater. Jesus said "Ye are flesheaters" and
metaphorically that anyone who eats the corpse of an animal becomes
a sarcophagus or portable cemetery of that animal
Let me guess, not only was Jesus a vegetarian, He and all His Disciples were gay, right?
Etymology is not an exact science. I know of no etymologists
who speak Sanskrit, the mother of all language, or its children Greek, Latin, Aramaic,
Hebrew. I know of no one truly equipped to write of
the roots of words.
Catholics are equal in God's eyes to people of any other
path.
http://groups.msn.com/cleveland/purefood.msnw
what's in the hot dogs you promote
What's a coffin for a hot dog called? a bun
Thanks.
"The miracle of the loaves and tofu. < /sarc >
Jesus spent a lot of time with fishermen."
Ha! Good one.
Keep reading. I think the story continues after that point.
And if you are truly a fruitarian, well...more power to you. Onwards and upwards to breathatarianism! Don't get weighed down by that material sustenance.
Also, Jesus was not a vegetarian. When he said he had meat to eat that they knew not of, the disciples wouldn't have asked if anyone had bought groceries, they would have said, "Meat! You're eating meat now?"
Please acquaint yourself with what John Wesley, General Booth of the Salvation Army, St Francis, Ellen White of the Seventh Day Adventists said about their following Christ's example in not eating flesh.LOL. So, Christ Jesus offered his own flesh and blood to his disciples to eat and drink, and told them it was real food and drink and that they couldn't have eternal life without it, but he was really a crypto-vegetarian.
Riiiiiiiiiight ...
The ascetic life of monks is not to be confused with the life of the laity. As for the rest, I'm profoundly uninterested in the varied errors of modernist heretics.
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