Edward Tarte--Catholic Church--eating meat...

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[yunathin]

that's human man take-over of religion that Catholicism has so brutally gone through. i mean 100 some years ago the pope became infallible, c'mon man.

regarding rules in general- they are less meant as rules as they are guidelines. instead of them being something you just do or dont do like a drone, following these guidelines- such as adhering or refraining from something- enables you to become closer to God and shows your true desire to find and enjoy his presence etc etc

[edwardtarte]

@yunathin, you do not understand. When I was a seminarian and a priest, the official Catholic teaching was: if a Catholic deliberately disobeys the rule against eating meat on a Friday, and dies unrepentant, God tortures that person continuously forever in hell. 'Guideline' is not the right word.

[toppinzr]

Animals in factory farms are miserably mistreated. Veganism has many health advantages; it causes less global warming, and it's good for animals.

Just to let you know that eating meat isn't morally neutral.

[edwardtarte]

@toppinzr, thank you for giving me something that I must think about.

[edwardtarte]

Amer, you are incorrect. Atheists simply do not find any credible evidence that any god exists. I'll bet you are an atheist when it comes to Thor, Zeus, Poseidon, Ra, Baal, and hundreds of other gods. There is nothing arrogant or smug about that. It's just that I am an atheist about one more god than you

[edwardtarte]

@XinvalidnameX, we atheists find no credible evidence of the existence of any 'man that runs all,' nor any being 'that runs all'. I have read your comments, and they show much rudeness, that I do not appreciate. Rudeness is not all that they show, but in this reply I will leave it at that.

[BlondinNB]

You make a hell of a lot of sense to me, Edward.

[krunkmasterj]

jesus tells us in the bible that if we do not do penance our soul will parish, so therfor god is commanding us that we HAVE TO do penance we dont have the option to say i dont feel like doing it, and the church has the authority from jesus to the apostalic succesion to tell us what days to fast and abstain from meat, if they didnt command it no one would do it look at the protestants. giving up meat and fasting are forms of penance

[LuniaVideo]

@lrmswift Veggies often suffer from zinc and b12 deficiencies and need to get those through a supplement. Frankly if your diet needs a supplement to be complete, it's a shitty diet and there's something fundamentally wrong with it.

[LuniaVideo]

@lrmswift You honestly think our cavemen ancestors were vegetarians? MILLIONS of years of evolution have developed us into omnivores. I apologize for sounding crass, but if you knew even the slightest bit about developmental biology and nutrition you would realize the human body NEEDS meat to function properly.

Carbohydrates are the only non-essential macromolecule and vegans/vegetarians have a diet that is virtually all carbs.

[LuniaVideo]

@lrmswift You make the fatal mistake that eating meat is somehow morally wrong. It's not. It's morally ambiguous and neutral. You can bet that if the cow was a carnivore, it would sure as hell eat both of us.

Meat consumption has never been linked to cancer. Soy is horrible & has been linked to systemic cancer due to the simple fact that its a xenoestrogen.

Meat isn't laced with pesticies. Plants are & suffer the same problems nowadays that meat does - GMO crops, pesticides/insecticides, etc

[HxCdancingisforfags]

@toppinzr you sir are a moron

[colourmegone]

The clergy had an "out" in the Middle Ages, the barnacle goose (Lepas anatifera) which does not nest in Britain was thought to spring, fully grown, feathers and all, from barnacles. Thus since they were "... obviously “not born of the flesh” but from a barnacle, they could be eaten not just on Fridays but throughout Lent!" Source Arkive[dot]org.

[herrerik]

This guy is both clever and expressive.

Cudos to you Tarte (and keep up the excellent job)

[lrmswift]

I am a vegan and I am quite physically healthy. I dont need to kill animals to live or to enjoy food. I dont tell others what to do but i feel better spiritually speaking by not consuming the flesh of animals that have been slaughtered. Meat consumption is known to cause heart desease, various forms of cancer and other deseases. Especially the hormone and pesticide laced meat sold in this country.

[andromidius]

@oshnapgurlidid That's very sad. I hope you find something real to cling on to soon.