Posted on 04/21/2005 12:31:56 PM PDT by presidio9
PETA believes it may have a powerful new ally: the pope.
The star-studded animal rights group — whose high-profile spokespeople include Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson — is saying that Pope Benedict XVI is an animal-rights supporter and they’re hoping he will join their cause.
PETA wasted no time in firing off a letter to the pope yesterday, congratulating him and asking, “Would you please encourage people to consider the suffering of animals by lending a supportive word to our efforts?”
The letter cited comments made by the pope three years ago when he was Cardinal Ratzinger: “Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.”
“We’re not expecting him to appear in one of our ‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur’ ads,” a PETA spokesman told The Scoop, “but he’s got a history of speaking out about animal rights and now maybe Christians will understand and support our campaign against KFC.”
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PETA? As in the People for the Eating of Tasty Animals?
Ooh, that would make it tough for him to eat the Passover. (Not that anyone had the time to be that stupid back then anyway.)
Dualing Biblical Quotes™
You post one that you think supports your position and I'll post one that I think supports mine.
The first one to run out of quotes or patience, loses.
Why did you post Luke 15:22?
Maybe he can perform an exorcism on them.
He is said to be a strict vegan -- shunning all animal products -- and listens to vegan-oriented rock music.
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Vegan-oriented rock music. LOL
No, seriously, PETA is very much connected to these fringe groups, including ELF and the like. Those groups are exceptionally dangerous. We had one of these nutcases torch a car dealership here not long ago. The dealer has since remodeled and reopened...but rumor has it that during a recent spell of warm weather, he was camped outside of his showroom at night with a shotgun.
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You just made me hungry...weiner schnitzel...mmmmmmmm LOL
This is not about dualing Bible quotes. My quote was unambiguous and a direct quote of Christ. The farmer in the parable (who is actually God) instructs his sons (who are us) to kill the calf and eat veal. PeTA has made up nonsense about about Jesus several times in the past. Only the ignorant would ever listen to them.
That's Gen 9:3. Below is Gen 9:4:
"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat." (Genesis 9:4)
One of my FAVORITE things to eat. But only in Germany!
But your quote had nothing to do with eating meat.
My quote is unambigous and a direct quote of God and was His direction to not eat meat.
One of my FAVORITE things to eat. But only in Germany!
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My grandmother made it the best. I've tried to make it myself and have eaten it in restaurants, but I have never found anything close to Grandma's.
I've never even attempted. I know it won't be the same! You must have had a German grandma!
No, you need to get it through your head that animals are first and foremost, God's creation.
Just because you forget this and have no respect for His creation doesn't mean I'm confused.
No, you need to get it through your head that animals are first and foremost, God's creation.
It's obvious that I'm not the one who's confused here.
No, you need to get it through your head that animals are first and foremost, God's creation.
It's obvious that I'm not the one who's confused here.
No, you need to get it through your head that animals are first and foremost, God's creation.
It's obvious that I'm not the one who's confused here.
Sorry about the multiple posts. I kept getting 'document contains no data' when clicking on the 'Post' button.
Actually, she was Austrian...but the same or similar cuisine.
My mother, when she was newly married to Dad, wanted to get some cooking lessons from Grandma, so she could make my Dad's favorite dishes. Turns out that Grandma didn't really have recipes. She could show you how to do something, but there was nothing really written down. And measurements -- well, instead of, say, a cup of flour -- it was a handful (or two). My favorite was "one glub-glub" of some liquid -- that meant, you turn over the bottle and when it made the glub-glub noise, that was enough. LOL
Some restaurants around here use pork or chicken in heir weiner schnitzel because veal is very expensive. Pork or chicken is all right, but veal is the best.
I never "got" the Jesus is a vegetarian thingy. If Jesus is who He says He is (and He is)then He and the Father initiated animal sacrifice waaaaay back in the O.T. as a forerunner and picture of his own future sacrifice. In addition to that on more than one occasion he helped his disciples take in an enormous catch of fish, and the disciples offered him fish and honeycomb after the resurrection. As for considering animals on a par with humans, I seem to remember him sending 'bout a thousand pigs off a cliff when he sent the legion of demons into them. And, he told Peter to go catch a fish to take money out of its mouth for taxes for the two of them. Not saying that Jesus' disregarded animal life (he created 'em, and the Bible says his eye is on the sparrow), but the slogan about Jesus being a vegetarian always made me go...hmmmm???
"One glub-glub" I like that! wonder if that is two glubs or one glub? LOL
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