"Do Unto Others..." Vegetarianism and Religion http://protectacow.typepad.com/
Major stumbling blocks for many Christians are the belief that Christ ate meat and the many references to meat in the New Testament. But close study of the original Greek manuscripts shows that the vast majority of the words translated as "meat" are trophe, brome, and other words that simply mean "food" or "eating" in the broadest sense. For example, in the Gospel of St. Luke (8:55) we read that Jesus raised a woman from the dead and "commanded to give her meat." The original Greek word translated as "meat" is phago, which means only "to eat." So what Christ actually said was, "Let her eat." The Greek word for meat is kreas ("flesh"), and it is never used in connection with Christ. Nowhere in the New Testament is there any direct reference to Jesus eating meat. This is in line with Isaiah's famous prophecy about Jesus's appearance: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good."
Clement of Alexandria, an early Church father, recommended a fleshless diet, citing the example of the apostle Matthew, who "partook of seeds, and nuts, and vegetables, without flesh." St. Jerome, another leader of the early Christian Church, who gave the authorized Latin version of the Bible still in use today, wrote, "The preparation of vegetables, fruit, and pulse is easy, and does not require expensive cooks." He felt such a diet was the best for a life devoted to the pursuit of wisdom. St. John Chrysostom considered meat-eating to be a cruel and unnatural habit for Christians. "We imitate but the ways of wolves, but the ways of leopards, or rather we are even worse than these. For to them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, but us God hath honored with speech and a sense of equity, and we have become worse than the wild beasts." St. Benedict, who founded the Benedictine Order in A.D. 529, stipulated vegetable foods as the staple for his monks. The Trappist order uniformly prohibited meat, eggs, and other flesh foods from its founding in the seventeenth century. The regulations were relaxed by the Vatican Councils of the 1960s, but most of the Trappists still follow the original teachings. Remarkably enough, however, many Trappist monasteries raise cattle for slaughter to support themselves financially.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church strongly recommends vegetarianism for its members. Although little known to the general public, the huge American breakfast cereals industry got its start at an Adventist health resort run by Dr. John H. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg was constantly devising new varieties of vegetarian breakfast foods for the wealthy patients of his Battle Creek Sanitorium. One of his inventions was cornflakes, which he later marketed nationwide. Over the course of time, he gradually separated his business from the Seventh Day Adventist Church and formed the company that still bears his name.
The largest concentration of vegetarians in the world is found in India, the homeland of Buddhism and Hinduism. Buddhism began as a reaction to widespread animal slaughter that was being carried out through perversion of religious rituals. Buddha put an end to these practices by propounding his doctrine of ahimsa, or nonviolence.
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SONGS OF THE VEDAS AND SCENES FROM THE SANCTUARY : OXEN HAYMAKINGby RALPHLAURINO833 views
EVEN AS A MOTHER WOULD CHERISH HER ONLY CHILD,WITH HER LIFE-EVEN THUS TOWARDS ALL BEINGS LET HIM CULTIVATE A BOUNDLESS HEART--LORD BUDDHA [KARANIYA METTHA SUTHRA] THE DISCOURSE ON LOVING-KINDNESS
001flyD 1 year ago
SABBE TASANTI DANDASSA
SABBE BHAYANTHI MACCUNO
ATTANAM UPAMAM KATVA
MA HANEYYA NA GHATAYE--LORD BUDDHA
MEANING:-"ALL ARE AFRAID OF BEING HURT,ALL FEAR DEATH.TAKING ONE'S OWN SELF AS A MODEL,ONE SHOULD NOT KILL AND CAUSE TO BE KILLED."--LORD BUDDHA
DHAMMAPADA-DANDA VAGGA-1
001flyD 1 year ago
sometimes I dream of cow-milk.
travisgallery 1 year ago
Wow, the old cream machine, way cool.
ChristopherClausColm 1 year ago