James doesn't espouse eternal damnation for all who don't think like he does, does he.
Buddhists generally do not believe in eternal damnation for anyone, as far as I am aware.
If Christians and Muslims stopped eating meat ...
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James doesn't espouse eternal damnation for all who don't think like he does, does he.
Buddhists generally do not believe in eternal damnation for anyone, as far as I am aware.
Both are acts of lacking mercy.
Of course not.
...he does eat non-vegetarians, however.
http://www.sciforums.com/encyclopedia/James_R
Oh and as a former catholic i was taught that it was a catholic law not to eat meat on certain fridays. Not sure if it was just a tradition or a law i just did a search on it and found this statement
Found at http://www.catholic-pages.com/life/fridaymeat.asp
So it does not seem that it is a tradition at all but is written into catholic law.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
Found at http://www.catholic-pages.com/life/fridaymeat.asp
So it does not seem that it is a tradition at all but is written into catholic law.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
The Catholics are their own denomination--split from the Bible-based church that is simply Christianity. It was alll about power and control. The Catholics have their own Bible. They have their own laws, rules, regulations, and versions of how you get into Heaven. (They say you work your way into Heaven by doing good deeds. (HOGWASH!) They have their own leaders (Popes, bishops, priests etc) who are always good for a scandal or two. They have their own empire--the Vatican, which is richer than many countries. They have you recite "I believe in one Catholic, apostolic church" when you visit them. I almost choked on that when I got caught up reciting the rest of the harmless/generic verse last time I was in a Catholic church for a baptism. Catholics are an interesting/deceived group. I used to be one. I know firsthand.
Like I said earlier, both are acts lacking mercy.
Do you think that the pleasure you get from eating meat, outweighs the suffering of animals who are held in cruel circumstances in captivity and then brutally killed?
If you are so sure you know the whole truth about God, so sure that you think you can preach eternal damnation to everyone who doesn't believe the same things you - then why seek such worldy pleasures such as meat-eating?
Does your faith in God, your knowledge of God, your service to God, not fill you with enough bliss, and instead you need to go seek for pleasure elsewhere?
I would imagine that someone who has such full certainty of God that he feels confident declaring eternal damnation to everyone who doesn't believe as he does, would have no need to indulge in worldy pleasures, which usually involve acts of cruelty toward oneself and other living beings.
I would imagine that someone who has full certainty of God would be harmless to all living beings. And certainly wouldn't eat them just to satisfy his tongue.
According to the Bible-- the beasts of the Earth were placed here for our use.
Well you should get over it becuase if it wasnt for eating meat you wouldnt be here.
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M*W: Now I'm confused. I thought I knew how the human reproductive system worked, but maybe there is something I have missed. What does eating meat have to do with human reproduction? (I'm assuming that Signal is a human being).
Catholics are christians sandy. and they are bible based though not from the twisted lets ignore the bible when i don't like what it says faith you belong to
Not really.
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M*W: Some say that's what happened to the Neanderthals when they included meat in their diet. The added protein caused their brains to grow bigger and have more intellect. I've also read that the inclusion of meat in their diets caused them to die out due to autoimmune disease. So many theories, so little time.
pj's already fisked this, but what's another good fisking cost us, really?
We - if being uncharitable - view it rather the other way around. (It's complicated, so neither version is really completely true.)
Some of it. The same is true of a lot of denominations, of course.
Nooooo....
To some degree, sure.
Prove it. (You suspect that God isn't able to identify an asshole?)
Sure: like Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson and Jim Bakker.
It's richer than a couple of them. The little ones.
No, they don't, you git.
I almost choked on your intolerance.
You forgot devious and evil.
Seemingly not. Otherwise, how could the baptismal Creed catch you off guard?
We - if being uncharitable - view it rather the other way around. (It's complicated, so neither version is really completely true.)
Some of it. The same is true of a lot of denominations, of course.
Nooooo....
To some degree, sure.
Prove it. (You suspect that God isn't able to identify an asshole?)
Sure: like Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson and Jim Bakker.
It's richer than a couple of them. The little ones.
No, they don't, you git.
I almost choked on your intolerance.
You forgot devious and evil.
Seemingly not. Otherwise, how could the baptismal Creed catch you off guard?
What drives you to this belief? On what is it based?
Furthermore, given that both religious and atheist eat meat, and both religious and atheist are vegetarian, I struggle to see a correlation between eating meat and religious philosophy. For your hypothesis to hold any water, surely there must be a correlation to investigate? Is there a study that supports this hypothesis?
I also struggle to see the connection between the physical consumption of meat and the method one uses to kill the meat? How is the physical consumption of a dead animal, for example, lacking in mercy? Is eating the meat from a naturally-deceased animal - or one that has been killed by a "natural" predator - acceptable to you?
But at present I see no necessary relationship between the two.
So please feel free to provide some supporting evidence for your beliefs - at least an explanation of how the two variables (meat-eating and religious philosophy) are in any way connected?