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DebraH, You might still be a practicing Christian, even if you've moved on from the religion of your raising. Since dietary restrictions are part of that religion, and since up to about half of Adventists are practicing vegetarians, I’d guess Scripture is used often in intra-Adventist debates about what God would rather you did and didn’t eat. But outside that circle, not so much. A non-Adventist Christian might listen politely to your quotes, but if any of it sounded reasonable, they’d take it right back to their own pastor or study group leader, who’d bark it down because he eats meat himself and will tell you that Jesus did too, and that meat is a gift from God. I stopped looking to others to interpret what I could read with my own eyes, at some point soon after being no longer Catholic and soon before being no longer Christian. Those ancient texts are filled with wisdom, but they're extremely difficult to pin down on specifics because you can find a quote to argue your case as easily as another quote to help you argue the opposite case.
For me, Genesis got a lot more interesting and a lot less didactic once I noticed it had God basically lying to Adam and the serpent telling Eve the truth, about what would happen to them if they ate the forbidden fruit. And I took it as inspired comedy that the first “evil” they noticed and reacted to was their own nudity. Unfortunately, they had no lawyer who could have argued their case to their Creator. Someone who might have pointed out that they shouldn’t be banished from Eden because their transgression had occurred before they knew any better, before they knew right from wrong. Morally, it sounded like they were about two years old: The age where you do things not just that your parents would rather you didn't, but because you know your parents would rather you didn't. Because knowing that makes you want to do it more. |
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Oahspe, a modern 'Kosmon' bible, commands of its followers, "...thy change from a carnivorous man of contention, to an herbivorous man of peace. The four heads of the Beast shall be put away; and war shall be no more on the earth." I've long thought there is a direct correlation between violent behavior toward each other and the killing of animals, to whom we are closely related.
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Oahspe is a redical VEGAN supracest Mind Control Cult that has spawned many, many, UFO Doomsday Cults, all of them waiting for a UFO Rescue.
I would be very careful around TROLLS who pretend to ask innocent questions about has anyone heard about this book? Yes, we have heard about Oahspe, and this group is an INSANE MIND CONTROL CULT. These folks posting these things are trying to RECRUIT you. |
Oahspe is a redical VEGAN supracest Mind Control Cult that has spawned many, many, UFO Doomsday Cults, all of them waiting for a UFO Rescue.
I would be very careful around TROLLS who pretend to ask innocent questions about has anyone heard about this book? Yes, we have heard about Oahspe, and this group is an INSANE MIND CONTROL CULT. These folks posting these things are trying to RECRUIT you. |
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