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Re: Vegetarianism and Religion. - August 5th 2010, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Bean View Post
Some people claim that Jesus was vegetarian himself (sorry, I don't have any sources atm). I'm confused as to how it would be 'against god' to be a vegetarian. What about people who try not to eat vegetables? Did the god not put those there for people to eat too? And the Ten Commandments.. is 'thou shalt not kill' not applicable to any other species besides humans?
The "thou shalt not kill" is what's taught now in the New Testament. In the Old Testament, it was the same except it added on "without reason". So it allowed killing of animals for food because somehow people have to eat. Newer versions cut out the "without reason". But that aside, you've got to consider the norms and practices of when it was written. Humans were higher than animals and didn't care too much about killing animals. Killing a bunch of animals for the fun of it I guess was frowned upon at the time because it's a waste of food. It'd only be done sometimes when parts of the bible commanded that communities be overthrown, men killed, woman and children killed/raped/made slaves and the farm animals killed so as to wipe out the entire community and pound it into the ground. So to answer your question, the Ten Commandments are meant for humans.