JESUS WAS NOT A VEGAN!
‘Was Jesus a vegetarian or a vegan?’ the answer has to be a resounding ‘No!’
As a secular Humanist, though not to my regret a vegetarian, simply from lack
of willpower when it comes to abandoning my beloved bacon sandwiches.
I am willing to concede to the belief that the historical Jesus
probably existed, at least as a religious cult leader who made certain
claims to divinity and achieved something of a following in his lifetime. He
was not the Son of God as far as I am concerned.
Taking the assumption that he did do as the Gospel authors claim, the
case is strongly asserted that Jesus, 1/. Ate meat. 2/. Jesus held virtually no
respect for animal and plant life, and 3/. practiced not only carnivorous
rituals but also cannibalistic ones.
The Bible’s own evidence reads as follows; 1/. Mark 14;
12 to 21. describes the meal for the last supper, as consisting of the
traditional Jewish sacrificial Passover lamb. There is no such thing as
vegetarian lamb. Jesus happily ate mutton. 2/. Matthew 8;18 to 34 Demonstrates
that Jesus was no lover of pigs and figs. Jesus kindly exorcises two men
possessed by demons, but he does so by casting the demons into the bodies of a
herd of swine, and sends the pigs over the cliffs to their doom in the sea
below. Surely the demons could have been eliminated without having to harm any
other animal, especially for a God and a vegetarian? In Jewish Mosaic law pigs
were regarded as sacred animals.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, the poor fig tree suffered worse in Matthew
21;18 to 22. I quote; "In the morning when he returned to the city
(Jerusalem), Jesus was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the side of the road,
he went to it and found nothing at all on it but leaves. Then he said to it,
‘May no fruit ever come from you again.’ and the fig tree withered at once.
Apostles witnessing this act of nature vandalism were sorely vexed and today
few priests ever refer to this disturbing chapter in the life of Jesus meek,
mild and merciful. I wonder why. It is interesting that the Bible notes
that even Jesus's loyal apostles found this behaviour disturbing.
3/. The Last Supper meal ritual involving the transformation of the bread
and wine into the flesh and blood of Christ has given the Church the rite of the
Eucharist, but this is an act of symbolized cannibalism concerning the physical
digestion of a portion of the human god incarnate. Yeuch!
Perhaps now Christians will stop trying to patronize vegetarians in an
attempt to convert them by telling them Jesus was one of their own. He
wasn’t. They might as well try to convince someone who is into freefall
parachuting that Jesus was fond of the sport too. It seems that whatever your
interest, a religionist will use it to get you to convert to their creed.
Arthur Chappell
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