On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 9:29:31 AM UTC-10, Roy wrote:
> On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 12:05:26 PM UTC-6, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 4:54:21 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > > On 9/11/2016 1:05 AM, dsi1 wrote:
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> > > > There's not much point in judging the way people ate who are far removed from our place and time. People in the future will think it abhorrent that we killed animals so that we could partake of their flesh.
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> > > Could be. Animals eat animals though so is it such a bad thing to do?
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> > Animals have no souls or carry with them the concept of evil. All animals that kill and eat animals have no problem with it - except humans. A lot of humans consider eating flesh to be a bad thing so the answer to your question depends on who you ask.
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> And our concept of evil is imparted into our being through the religious kooks of the world who influence parents and their children. The concept that humans are inherently evil from the time of conception is one of the biggies. "Original Sin" goes way back but is still taught today.
> Causes nothing but trouble IMHO.
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> As far as eating flesh is concerned...what about the flesh of the plants that we eat? Carrots and lettuce have feelings too, so it is said. When you cut into a beet, maybe that is real blood that the beet "sees" pouring out of its poor savaged body.
> If you believe everything the Bible reveals you will know that the Earth and all it contains is for OUR use so animals are certainly fair game.
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We have religion simply because we are aware of our own mortality. Without that, we could live like the animals - without morality. One can choose to believe in the concept of original sin or not, the only thing I know is that once man has eaten of the tree of knowledge, he can never go back and live like animals again.