Michael #fundie

Michael #fundie rr-bb.com

Not eating meat on purpose (when it is available, but you still avoid it) is not something Jesus instructed us to do.

You don't have to eat McDonald's everyday or anything like that, but to avoid meat is to imply you don't trust the Bible when it states (sorry for no verse) all food has been made clean to eat.

What do you not agree with here?

If it is good enough for the Word, it is good enough for me and you.

End of story.

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old comment by Zadic

Even if you were to try to claim that one should've been able to eat all food (which is a relative word btw) without worry because you believe your bible says it's okay to do so, it makes no sense for you to apply that statement to what we consider food thousands of years later (nothing that you said made any sense, but the sentence flows better if I ignore that). Where in your bible does it say that food will remain clean to eat? Besides the obvious chemicals and things like growth hormones which we add to our various food sources, how is it that you're using god to defend the shit that makes up a McDonalds meal? Nothing like it existed two thousands years ago with which to use as a reference. Anyway, I eat at McDonalds myself so I'm not attacking it, but I hardly think that god made their concoctions of high fat, salt, and sugar with low fibre and vitamins/minerals just for you to eat or that after Humans made it he made sure it was "clean" so it wouldn't harm you.

Use your fucking brain. End of story dumbass.

old comment by Julian

McDonalds sell meat? WTF! Seriously, where in the bible does it say thou shalt eat cardboard, tallow, faecal matter, arteries and assholes mixed into a patty and served in a sesame seed bun?

Not to mention Jesus said he was here to keep the OT Laws to the letter - Matthew 5:17-20.

17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven

Jesus said a lot of things like that. Jesus said only Jews get to go to heaven too.

It was Paul who made up the other stuff about other people being allowed in. He used to kill Christians. Nice trustworthy guy.

It was Peter, the first pope who made up the stuff about being allowed to eat pork. Why? He was hungry and wanted to eat some!

old comment by Neil

I love it when christians show their colors.

It doesn't matter if it's bad for you, it doesn't matter if it's horrible for the environment and we deforest and graze our pasturelands into deserts(see old testament Jews, the american southwest and modern Brazil, i.e. Mcdonald's rainforest) it doesn't matter if you torture it to death first-JESUS SAID IT'S
O.K! The very foundation of white trash theology.

I put forward a simple argument. Many vegetarians avoid meat (and many non-vegetarians limit consumption) for a variety of good reasons. Some of them are health related, and require discipline. Some are moral reasons, and require a very robust conscience in the individual. The christian consciously ignores all of these considerations in favor of a lazy redneck interpretation of one often-interpreted bible quote, which of course he already knows is suited to his tastes.

The conclusion I draw? That the average vegetarian(or even a pot smoking, Che Guevara t-shirt wearing, college dropout hippie vegan stereotype) is intellectually, ethically, and morally superior to the vast majority of christians, by orders of magnitude! I won't even talk about the self-discipline issues-imagine a serious vegan or hari krishna eating some meat and then praying to their victim for forgiveness!

Just for the record, this is coming from a guy who barbecues almost every weekend, will try any food at least once, and who worked as a butcher for over four years. I just have a solid distaste for some things. Not for meat, really, but for undisciplined, intellectually lazy, selfish assholes who think that the world owes them survival just 'cause jesus said so.

Michael #fundie rr-bb.com

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