The real Jesus/Yeshua had a message of nonviolence, love and compassion to everyone. He didn't hurt and kill anyone.
Research proves that Jesus/Yeshua was a vegan (i.e. he didn't use, hurt, kill, exploit and steal from animals): http://circleofcompassion.org/articles/articles-will/article-lostreligionjesus.htm (book review by Will Tuttle, who has written the wonderful book World Peace Diet (www.worldpeacediet.org)
The
Bible doesn't accurately reflect what he taught; it is a mix of his
teachings and Church redactions. So he would have never justified us
killing and eating animals for trivial reasons such as “taste”,
convenience or habit, which is the reason that people enslave, hurt,
kill and eat animals today. Clearly inflicting unnecessary suffering and
death upon an individual can never be justified: http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/what-michael-vick-taught-us/
So
when he said we should treat others as we ourselves want to be treated
ourselves, and to love our neighbor as ourselves, he referred to
everyone (human and nonhuman animals).
If we don't want to be killed, we shouldn't kill another being.
If we don't want someone else to steal our family, we shouldn't steal their family.
If we want to find our purpose in this world, we shouldn't steal others purpose.
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Gammalt inlägg:
Thanks for many nice and compassionate words!
I would like to comment on this:
Quote: "Yes, there was a time when we were to eat meat, but that time was long ago and is long gone. "
It has always been unethical to take somees life, to deprive someone on his/her purpose of this life.
I think that statements ascribed to Jesus partaking of the Jewish ritual
passover (innocent lamb), and eating fish, are later redactions. I
think the historical Jesus understood it is wrong to oppress other
sentient beings, and that his radical message of love and compassion to
all sentient beings, radically threatened the power elite.
"From the viewpoint of its deepest and most eternal and universal
teachings‚to love God, and to love our neighbor as ourself‚ the Bible
unequivocally condemns animal slavery just as it condemns human slavery.
We must stop using the Bible to justify animal abuse, but rather use it
to guide us in our quest for peace and justice for all beings."
http://www.worldpeacediet.com/2012/03/bible-unequivocally-condemns-animal-slavery/
[I also think the book World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle will be very
helpful to you all; it surely is for me. ]
Learn more here: www.vegankit.com
and www.worldpeacediet.org
I don't agree with all of this, but this is the perspective from a Christian vegan:
"I worship Jesus Christ and live by the bible. I understand it well and
also understand it is subject to perspective of the individual reading
it. I was provided a vegan diet by the almighty. I am a Christian vegan
who does not support in the torture of the life that has been placed on
this earth. I do not use Jesus to support torture and killing of any
living being. Yes, there was a time when we were to eat meat, but that
time was long ago and is long gone. In that time animals were not
electrocuted via their anus. They were not skinned alive, debeaked,
forcefed so we could eat their fatty liver, raped, ground up alive or
killed when there were not actually needed. We live in a world today
where we can have every one of our nutritional needs met without killing
any of the precious lives God has provided. When I stand before God,
with my arms outstretched ready to enter the kingdom, the first thing
God will see is me, not the blood on my hands."
- Christine Jakins, Vegan
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Debbie, Please read the links that I included.
Why do you think that Jesus would have inflicted unnecessary pain and
death, stolen the purpose of sentient fish, destroyed their families and
friend relationsships, just for a “taste” experience, custom or
tradition?
I think that Jesus showed love compassion and nonviolence to all living beings.
The Bible contains many sayings of Jesus, but it was also redacted by the Church. They decided what would be in the Bible.
Read more here:
http://bloganders.blogspot.no/2013/05/christianity-religion-bible-god-and.html
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