Sarah Palin takes aim at vegetarians in Going Rogue

examiner.com ^ | 11-15-09 | Daelyn Fortney

[Grizzled Bear]

I have been a “Freeper” for several years......I had another screen name before this one but I don’t need to explain any of this to your paranoid little mind.......

Dane? Isdatchu???!!!

[Texas Eagle]

Unfortunately Palin’s viewpoints on vegetarianism is not only narrow minded but is also widely shared. Palin’s view on animals as being just meat is also shared by a considerable portion of our country.

"Lighten up, Frances. She's just crackin' wise."

[redhotright]

If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?

Following the same logic, it could also be reasonably said: If god had not intended for us to be cannibals, how came he made us out of meat?

LOL

[fhayek]

Animals were not killing other animals before the fall of man....that is before Sin. After the fall of man, which God did not intend...everything changed.....and has degenerated since then.

Either you believe the Bible or you don’t.....and in Eden...God’s intent and creation is perfect. No death, no eating dead animals, no animals killing other animals.....Please....read the Bible.

ROTFLMAO!

[BnBlFlag]

That’s fer sure!

[johncocktoasten]

“My opinion of the majority of vegetarians is that they could care less about the eating of meat and (humane) killing of animals for meat. They just want something to feel superior to other people about.”

BINGO! This is the personality of your local lefty voting numbskull. Fat women with hairy underarms, who complain that the world smells bad except right after the weekly shower. Erudite men who believe that better building architecture and union labor are our best defenses against another 9/11. They are individuals who hate themselves, hate the world, and can’t find the exit.

[Olympia90]

Yeah, I HIGHLY doubt Sarah said any of this. For sure we would have heard about it from the MSM.

[Olympia90]

Yeah, I HIGHLY doubt Sarah said any of this. For sure we would have already heard it blasted from the MSM. Sounds like a colossal joke.

[rbmillerjr]

“many if not Most Seventh day Adventists are Vegetarians and according to several studies, live longer and healthier lives than the general population”

Yes, my opinion is that vegetarians are morons. Little did I know that those goobers knocking on my door were peddling
TofuTurkey.

[Claud]

Biblically speaking, it's clear to me that this world is to be restored to an Edenic state, with no death. The lion lying down with the lamb, eating ... what? Not each other.

If you're talking about the "new heavens and the new earth", then what *was* on Earth may not necessarily be what *will be*. Man will have powers far greater than he had in the Garden. It is quite possible that animal life will be perfected and granted qualities above its nature as well.

And who's overintellectualizing, seriously?! Frankly, I think it's pretentious for us in the 21st century to sit here and crack open the Bible and pontificate on what we personally see as if no one else has pored over the thing for the last 2000 years. As if the same prior generations who handed us this book, who founded our churches, have absolutely nothing to teach us.

This is not the teaching of "some sect" RegulatorCountry. This is a debate that's been going on for a long time within Christianity.

[kevkrom]

Vegetables are not food. Vegetables are what food eats.

[RegulatorCountry]

Frankly, I think it's pretentious for us in the 21st century to sit here and crack open the Bible and pontificate on what we personally see as if no one else has pored over the thing for the last 2000 years. As if the same prior generations who handed us this book, who founded our churches, have absolutely nothing to teach us.

This particular debate was resolved by the Protestant Reformation, frankly. That it continues is a bit of a puzzle. Martin Luther wrote upon the topic, as did John Calvin. But, John Wesley's 1781 sermon The General Deliverance is likely the most direct and to-the-point.

Layer upon layer of religious bureaucracy and gold-plated priesthoods have been rather more interested in perpetuation of power than conveying simple, Biblical truths; the plain Word seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle, and continues to be. Referring back to the plain truths and the actual words themselves, is an excellent test of doctrine, as to accuracy or the lack of it.

In the words of Wesley, away with vulgar prejudice, and thet the plain Word of God take its place.

[Claud]

This particular debate was resolved by the Protestant Reformation, frankly....Referring back to the plain truths and the actual words themselves, is an excellent test of doctrine, as to accuracy or the lack of it.

Resolved? Really? Well, we are sidetracking the thread, but if the "plain truth" of the "actual words" was what the Reformation was after, it should've listened when Martin Luther upbraided his fellow reformers with the following:

Who ever read in the Scriptures, that "my body" is the same as the "sign of my body"? or, that "is" is the same as "it signifies"? What language in the world ever spoke so? It is only then the devil, that imposes upon us by these fanatical men. Not one of the Fathers of the Church, though so numerous, ever spoke as the Sacramentarians: not one of them ever said, "It is only bread and wine; or, the body and blood of Christ is not there present."

Who is being literal here? Luther? Or his opponents?

[XEHRpa]

Oops. Mea culpa. “No soup for me.”