Posted on 01/07/2025 11:12:57 AM PST by DallasBiff
In a world where meat is often a token of comfort, health, hospitality, and abundance, one can be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at the conjunction “meat and evil.” Why pull meat into the orbit of harm, pestilence, ill-will, and privation? From another perspective, the answer is obvious: meat—the flesh of slaughtered animals taken for food—is the remnant of a feeling creature who was recently alive and whose death was premature, violent, and often gratuitous. The truth is that meat has a checkered history in the West. From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production in today’s world, meat is well-marbled with evil and its minions: sin, violence, injustice, destruction, suffering, and death. Beyond keeping company with these obtrusive forms of evil, meat’s success at remaining, nevertheless, in our collective good graces illuminates some of evil’s subtler shades too. We might learn something of insidiousness, self-deception, rationalization, and bad faith by exploring why the ever-strengthening consensus that habitual meat-eating is unhealthful, morally dubious, and environmentally damaging is often still no match for a philosopher’s savor of cheeseburgers. My aim is to consider meat’s fitness for a place in the Western history of evil by reflecting briefly on its outsized roles at the bookends of this narrative: meat’s primeval history in Genesis, and its contribution today to ethical and environmental problems of arguably apocalyptic proportions.
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How much of my paycheck is taken to support this wanker?
Well, I heard liberals taste just like chicken..
Indicting Judaism and Capitalism in a sentence fragment:
“From its origin-story in Abrahamic religion to its industrial production in today’s world”
Atheism and communism have such a superior record!
God says it’s okay in the Deuteronomy food laws. Who cares what likely perverts say.
“..The liberals hate meat....”
Except when it’s stuck where the sun don’t shine. Then, they seemed to like it just fine...and like it a lot. Just ask their mighty demi-god, odongo!!!
After sin came into the world, who was the first one on record to kill an animal for man’s sake?
God (Genesis 3:21).
Blood and death is the consequence of sin and Jesus took that consequence for us. Animals are collateral damage.
The Left, run by the spirit of antichrist, wants nothing to do with the truth, sin and its consequences, or redemption by the blood of the Lamb.
You can bet the guy loves abortion.
If there’s one thing that Christianity Islam, and Judsism agree upon, it’s that eating meat is OK.
Ergo, we should "trust science", as well as believing in GOD's design.
Col 2:16, 17
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
Col 2:20, 21
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”
Simple answer. Too much.
Think I'll have a tri-tip for dinner. Too bad you were a cow.
“…is the remnant of a feeling creature …”
When it builds the pyramids or writes a sonnet about somebodies Easter bonnet let me know.
The killing of an animal for my consumption is certainly more humane than the killing of the animal by another animal for consumption, don’t ya think?
Yep, but only us Christians are blessed to put bacon on our cheeseburger.
These nutballs....
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