An Email Response to One Claiming the Real God Justified Meat Eating in "Genesis"

   You've mentioned a number of the justifications in Genesis for eating animal flesh. Remember these things:

1. The original dietary covenant given by God was for all creatures to be vegetarian, not just humans.

     "And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.'" l: 29-30.

Orthodox Jewish Rabbis admit that God's original dietary covenant stated that humans were to eat vegetation only.  This is unquestionable, as we can see from the above scripture.

2. Do you, the reader of scripture, have the moral discernment to understand that God doesn't change (his) mind? Even the New Testament says we are to test the spirit. What kind of spirit is being presented who wants us to kill other creatures and to eat their corpses, when obviously the animals don't want to be killed, and our bodies don't want to become unhealthy, which is what inevitable occurs when habitually ingesting animal flesh?

3. Those who revised the Old Testament understood that they were contradicting a very clear command to be vegetarian, so they warmed up to it:

4. Suddenly, in chapter 4 of Genesis, God accepts the slaughtered animals of Abel, and refuses to accept the vegetarian offerings of Cain.  How can this be logical, since God just before commanded vegetarianism?

  But get this, one of the Mysteries of the Bible is why Abel's name in ancient Hebrew means vain, illusory, unsatisfying. Why is Abel's name associated with what is negative?  Because the name Abel itself is allegorical.  In the original Old Testament, Abel was recognized as the first human who specifically kills other creatures. Abel's name itself is allegorical, because it means one who negates El, or Deity.  El is a name for God in Ancient Hebrew.  And Ab, like the Ab in Abnormal, is a prefix of negation.  Abel is one who negates or obscures God, precisely because he disobeys God's original command to be vegetarian, and kills God's creatures. Abel's name is in fact the root of our word Evil.

5. No sane person, and certainly no really objective scholar believes that the Old Testament, Torah, or Tanakh has not been revised. Even some orthodox Jews admit it.

6. So, the God who is presented in "Genesis" is Schizophrenic, first saying all creatures are sacred, don't kill them and eat them, eat vegetation, and then later condoning the killing of animals.  Let's be totally accurate, however.  It is not God who is schizophrenic, but the presentation of God by false scribes who revised the original Torah.

7. Yes, the God described in Genesis suddenly makes commands that directly contradict his previous commands. Orthodox Jews describe it as the divine compromise, that is, God allowing humans to eat flesh, because humans are too weak to eat vegetation only.

8. So now we have a God who sanctions animal sacrifices as opposed to condemning them.

9. We see the Covenant of Carnivorism finally made specific in chapter 9 of Genesis:

"The fear and the dread of you shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the birds of the sky--everything with which the earth is astir--and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hand. Every creature that lives shall be yours to eat; as with the green grasses, I give you all these." Genesis 9: 2-3

10. Wow! Is this God or the Devil?  Instead of the compassionate God who told all creatures to eat vegetation, and to maintaining a paradise free of bloodshed, we now have God stating that all creatures are to live in fear and dread of humans.  Who is going to believe in this contradictory God?  Only those addicted to the evils that it is claimed God sanctions.  Documents in Hebrew history outside of the Old Testament also point out that demons initiated the animal sacrifices.

11. Certainly the above scriptures are one of the biggest lies ever put into the scriptures. By whom?  By cattlemen wanting to have a divine sanction for killing animals and selling their corpses to eat for a profit.  Money! Mammon!  (You cannot serve both God and Money.)

12. Do you know the vast amount of medical research literature now specifically proving what Hindus and Buddhists have documented for millennia, that animal fat promotes disease?  Go to Peta, EarthSave, to John Robbins' Diet for a New America. If you're on the net, search Vegan, or even just Vegetarian, and you'll come up with plenty of documentation showing that animal fat contributes to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke, a weakening of the immune system.

13. My site discusses these questions in detail, and shows how it is logical to infer, from the abundant evidence in the original Old and New Testament and Koran, that all these documents originally taught vegetarianism.

14. Remember, Quantity is not equal to Quality.  The people who revised the scriptures made sure that there are more scriptures stating that God sanctioned animal sacrifices than there are scriptures condemning animal sacrifices. But in the Old Testament, New Testament, and Koran, as they now exist, there is still plenty of evidence remaining for the original vegetarian teachings.

15.  We grow spiritually only if we wish to look at our selves honestly.  Think about the cruelty  caused each time you eat flesh, or eggs, or even drink milk. Animals are brutally slaughtered, enslaved on ranches or worse, animal factories, and these animals are not treated like sentient beings.

It was the biggest leap I took in my life, admitting that I caused cruelty and pain when I ate flesh. It was much more important than getting a ph. d. or writing awards, etc.

16. When you come to my site, you'll see a summary of the statistical study by William Harris in his The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism that the carnivorous nations of the world are also the most imperialistic nations and also the nations with the highest rate of violent crime. That's right, there are statistics showing that carnivorous cultures are more violent that vegetarian ones.  Ever hear of Buddhists, Jains and Hindus invading other nations beyond border disputes?  Maybe a few times in their thousands of years of history.  But the Christian nations of Europe and the United States are like the Sunni Muslim countries, chronically looking for new nations to conquer.

17.  In Genesis 49 Jacob prophesies on the heads of the 12 tribes.  Remembering that Levites, the family of Levi, are those who sacrificed animals in the temple, note what Jacob says of Simeon and Levi:

     Simeon and Levi are a pair;
     Their weapons are tools of lawlessness.
     Let not my person be included in their council,
     Let not my being be counted in their assembly.
     For when angry they slay men,
     And when pleased they slay oxen.
     Curse be their anger, so fierce,
     And their wrath so relentless.

Jacob's attitude is obviously against their killing, their wrath, their fierceness. Jacob here is presented as in harmony with the original vegetarian covenant, and the above scriptures confirm what Esdras said of the patriarchs, that they were in harmony with the later prophets who also denounced the animal sacrifices.

18. Humility, admitting we may be wrong, is a great step towards personal liberation. Pray, meditate, ask the powers that be to help you do what is most in line with the all-compassionate creative forces in the universe.

 So now we have in the Old Testament a God who promotes disease and a shorter longevity, not to speak of the states of depression and despair that accompany the diet of carnivores.

     Who is going to believe this garbage, or promote it?  Only people interested in selling animal foods, or cholesterol junkies, those people in denial who don't want to admit that they are doing anything wrong.  Hey, if we really believe that we already know all that is essential to our spiritual lives, and that we don't have to change anything, we're really in deep trouble.

   Cholesterol junkies are in denial, about the lose/lose situation they find themselves in: the animals lose their lives; and the carnivores lose their health.  Because they don't want to admit that they have an addiction to eating the corpses of brutally murdered animals, the cholesterol junkies of the world gather around the rewritten scriptures of the Torah, the New Testament, and the Koran, which not only justify carnivorism and killing animals, but slavery!, sexism!, bigotry towards homosexuals!  Wow, with teachings like that from God, who needs a Devil?

Jesus said the Devil was the father of lies,
And being masked as God is the Devil's best disguise.

    Cholesterol junkies, flesh eaters, cause more harm to themselves, other creatures, and the environment that all the heroin and cocaine addicts of the world combined.

   Did you know that in Hebrew history, in works such as the Ethiopic Book of Enoch and "Jubilees," Demons originated animal sacrifices and the Passover?

  Deity is perfect health, perfect harmony, Life, not Death.

  The body of the Carnivore is comprised of animal corpses is a hidden grave, is a walking grave, a sepulcher, a walking tomb, a mobile Temple of Suffering and Death.

 Thus the terrible moods, the angst, the depression and despair that mark all carnivorous cultures.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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