There’s a site (www.jesusveg.com) that’s supposed to support vegetarianism. I mean, if Jesus was a vegetarian, shouldn’t you be? But I think I read once that in those days everyone (around that area) was a vegetarian and it wasn’t until Caesar’s reign that people started eating meat. Is that true?
Yeah, and look where it got him! Nailed to a cross!
Now where’s my fire-treated animal corpse?
Let’s look at the Bible, shall we?
In John 21, Jesus cooks fish for his disciples to eat. PETA would be so horrified.
In the parable of the Prodigal SOn, Jesus talks approvingly of “killing the fatted calf” to celebrate the son’s return.
Jesus ate the Passover meal (which always featured roast lamb) with his disciples.
No, Jesus was NOT a vegetarian.
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Now where’s my fire-treated animal corpse?
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That reminds me of something funny I read in the Washington Times…about a lawsuit PETA and some guy are in because he cyber-squatted the site “www.peta.org” and made it a site about “People Eating Tasty Animals”. Pure genius, this guy! Because of the suit, though, he had to take it down. He’s appealing, however.
But don’t let that gem throw us off my original question…was everyone in that region a vegetarian at that time, making the argument that “Jesus was a vegetarian” moot?
Are fish a vegetable? I’m no bible scholar, but I’m pretty sure JC ate fish. At least we know he provided fish. And no, if Jesus was a vegetarian, that doesn’t mean I should be. Actually ,people didn’t start eating meat until 1822. My friend Mel told me so.
I was accosted by the PETA brigade a couple of years ago at the Mall in DC. They were trying to convince people that Jesus did not eat fish. Instead, He was known to partake of “fishweed.”
Yeah, as in the miracle of the loaves and the fishweed.
These people need to get a clue.
Well, that makes sense. Everyone knows that Jesus called to Peter to drag in his nets and pull in the vast amount of fishweed found in the waters. (John 21:1-14)
Perhaps closer to answering the OP: Didn’t Peter discuss abstaining from the meat from strangled animals during the Council at Jerusalem? that alone would seem to imply that eating meat in of itself was nothing new to the new Christians. Said Council happened not too long after the Jesus ascended back into Heaven, so we can figure that eating meat didn’t suddenly become in vogue in the short time from Jesus to Council.
This argument has shown up before. It has been advanced that Jesus kept kosher.
So after you take care of Johnny L. A. I’ll have a pastrami on rye.
And a Dr. Brown’s.
If Jesus was a vegetarian (a very big if) and it wasn’t considered important enough to mention anywhere in the Bible, I don’t think it could be considered important to be a vegetarian. Jesus was a carpenter, and they actually mention that. By this logic, all followers of Jesus should be carpenters, right?
I’m a vegetarian. And I believe in Jesus. But as for connecting the two . . . I have to be intellectually honest, and I know of no evidence at all for this claim.
Others have asserted it to me as if they know it to be a fact. When I ask for evidence, they provide only vague sentiments, and hints about Gnostic Gospels (so where’s the citation, guys?). Without any evidence to go on, I move to dismiss the case!
JC was not a vegetarian. And, no, most peoples of that time were not vegetarians. However, the poorer people ate far less meat, and beef was a rare luxury. JC ate fish, for sure, and fish was the “poor man’s protein”, so many of that time were what we call today “semi-vegetarians”, ie the only
“meat” was fish. But that was because they could not afford anything else. Many Jews probably ate lamb only on the Holidays, and beef very rarely.
However, there was at least one “Great world leader” who WAS a vegetarian- Hitler.
WOO HOO!!! You’re right! Send those PETA folks on over. I’ve got a garage to build!!!
Jesus ate fish, lamb, fatted calf and pita bread (unleavened). Look at the portraials of the last supper. We are talking about a southern BBQ without the corn-on-the-cob and okra. I understand he spent at least a little time diving in Mary Magdaline’s pond, too. So vegetarianism is right out.
If God wanted you to be a vegetarian, he would have given you multiple stomachs and a cud to chew. Who thinks up this shit? People with Cranial Rectomitis.
Danmit, I typoed portrayals! Get thee benind me Satan, but don’t expect me to reach for the soap.
Matthew 26: 26-27
Jesus took bread … and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Then he took the cup … saying "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant… "
Now, without getting into a massive argument about transubstantiation and the subsequent nature of Christ’s body and blood (was he of divine substance? was he flesh and blood? was he a carrot?), at the face of it, this is a clear invitation to order the large meat-lovers pizza with BBQ sauce.
Except on Fridays, when it’s two blue cod and a scoop of chips.
Besides, aren’t shoes made from leather? And didn’t Jesus feed people on loafers and fishes?
The very first time I set foot in California I got off a bus in San Francisco and saw a man holding a sign:
JESUS SAVES ALL VEGETARIANS
That was in 1980. These folks have been around for a while.
tcburnett:
Well, I guess that explains rabbits. And Galapagos lizards. And chimpanzees, our closest primate relatives. Maybe you ought to know what you’re talking about before you talk.
Daniel:
Yeah, and John Wayne Gacy ate meat. So I guess eating meat makes you a serial killer. Oh, and Hitler loved children and animals. So I guess if you love children and animals, you’re a genocidal anti-Semite. Oh, I’m sorry–did you have a point I was interrupting, or were you just being immature and needlessly diversive?
Skwerl:
Yes, isn’t trademark violation hilarious!!?? Golly, stealing other people’s intellectual property is a hoot!
Er…you egregiously misspelled, "Because he LOST the case, in part because by registering his site with a .org domain name, he fraudelently misrepresented himself as a nonprofit organization. Also because he used a trademark, ‘PETA,’ which he was not legally entitled to use and diluted its value, and because he violated the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act by appropriating a trademark which
was not his for his own commercial benefit.
The judge in the case found that ’ . . . Doughney had the requisite bad faith intent" to profit from PETA’s mark . . . he clearly intended to confuse, mislead, and divert Internet users into accessing his Web site, which contained information antithetical and therefore harmful to the goodwill represented by the PETA mark.’ The judge also noted that Doughney ‘has registered other Internet domain names, which are identical or similar to either marks or names of famous people or organizations he opposes,’ and ‘Doughney made reference to seeing what PETA would offer him if PETA did not like his Web site.’ "
Don’t make heroes out of criminals, OK?
BTW, no, Jesus was certainly not a vegetarian, and it doesn’t matter if he was. You shouldn’t be a vegetarian because someone else is; you should be one because you want to be.
Hitler was not a vegetarian. That was propaganda cooked up and promoted by Goebbels to help Hitler’s PR and give him some of the cachet of Gandhi (absurd as that sounds). There are reliable reports of Hitler eating meat, so it’s about time this falsehood was laid to rest.
Now, the late Hafez al-Assad was a vegetarian. Little-known fact. He was vegetarian for personal health reasons. Obviously not for ahimsa (nonviolence), as he wiped out the town of Hamath and killed several thousand people.