all paths lead to the same God who is called by infinite names such
as Shiva, Allah, Great Spirit, Kwon Yin, Divine Mother,
God, etc.

For me, the goal is prevention of suffering. I want to reduce my heavy tread
upon the earth by causing less suffering to other beings, those who can voice
their pain and those, like fish and plants, who cannot.

There is a debate among Biblical scholars about whether Jesus
materialized pickled fish (Greek word opsarion which means pickled fish
which would imply the chemical reproduction of fish molecules without killing),
real fish, or symbolic fish (wisdom).

Jesus was an Essene, a vegan/fruitarian group

We know that His followers from Francis of Assisi and St Anthony (who preached
to fishes) to Ellen White, founder of Adventists, Bramwell Booth and his father,
founders of Salvation Army, John Wesley, founder of Methodism
were vegetarian in the belief that they were emulating Him.

The Good Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep wished to eliminate
all suffering of any sentient creature.

If we obey His command to feed the hungry, the comparison is of 100 to 1000 lbs
of animal flesh per acre to as high as 450,000 lbs per acre of nuts, fruits,
seeds in tri level agriculture. Each centenarian apple tree can drop an average
TWO TONS of free food.

If we obey God's Eden plan, Genesis 1:29 says 'behold I have given you tree yielding
seed. To you it shall be for food.

Isaiah: I delight not in your blood sacrifice.

Isaiah: The lion shall lie down with the lamb. They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all my holy mountain.

Jesus threw butchers who were sacrificing lambs and doves
out of the temple. He said "My Father's
house is a house of prayer. You have
made it a den of thieves (can also
be translated butchers or thieves of
life.)

It is known that Constantine was
the first flesheating Christian emperor,
that he appointed others to remove
vegetarian passages from the Bible.

The Gospel of Mary and of Thomas
show that they, like all early
Christians, were vegetarian.

The pretzel, said George Cornell of AP,
symbolized arms folded in prayer.

One by one, vegetarian tenets
dropped away. Lentils became not
beans for all times, but only for Lent.
Next came meatless Fridays.
Then all traces of early Christian
nonviolent diet were gone.





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