Okay, question. Didn't Adam and Eve not eat any animals when they were still in Eden? Does that make them non-human until they get cast out? What about the parts of Revelation which suggest that in the end times there would be no more death in the post-millennial paradise (therefore no more slaughtering animals for food)? Jesus himself only ate fish, and if options like tofu had existed in the eastern Mediterranean diet at the time he might not have even done that.
What's the angle here? That attempting to abandon meat-eating is a denial of original sin or of God's design (which makes it impossible to be Saved)? Why not just make that argument instead of invoking this pseudoscientific bullshit from an obvious position of ignorance? It'd still be wrong, but internally consistent with some interpretation of your archaic belief system. Meanwhile the planet is on fucking fire and we now scientifically understand the role animal agriculture/meat production plays in accelerating that process. Maybe we should...stop doing so much of that. What if that's God's message, asshole?
i literally fainted from lack of b12 while reading this, too complicated ыыы
edit: anyway, i took my b12 supplements, anyway, i believe this encapsulates a much broader question of how the human mind perceives and adopts foreign ideas and addresses inconsistencies that emerge from contradicting beliefs; i found jonathan haidt's "The Righteous Mind" book shining an interesting light on this issue
tldr of the book: people are scared of foreign stuff, and other people gaslighting their beliefs onto them while appealing to their emotions seems to be the most effective strategy to convince someone
disclaimer: the author is probably a lib, but the psychology component is interesting
people are scared of foreign stuff, and other people gaslighting their beliefs onto them while appealing to their emotions seems to be the most effective strategy to convince someone
Okay, question. Didn't Adam and Eve not eat any animals when they were still in Eden? Does that make them non-human until they get cast out? What about the parts of Revelation which suggest that in the end times there would be no more death in the post-millennial paradise (therefore no more slaughtering animals for food)? Jesus himself only ate fish, and if options like tofu had existed in the eastern Mediterranean diet at the time he might not have even done that.
What's the angle here? That attempting to abandon meat-eating is a denial of original sin or of God's design (which makes it impossible to be Saved)? Why not just make that argument instead of invoking this pseudoscientific bullshit from an obvious position of ignorance? It'd still be wrong, but internally consistent with some interpretation of your archaic belief system. Meanwhile the planet is on fucking fire and we now scientifically understand the role animal agriculture/meat production plays in accelerating that process. Maybe we should...stop doing so much of that. What if that's God's message, asshole?
i literally fainted from lack of b12 while reading this, too complicated ыыы
edit: anyway, i took my b12 supplements, anyway, i believe this encapsulates a much broader question of how the human mind perceives and adopts foreign ideas and addresses inconsistencies that emerge from contradicting beliefs; i found jonathan haidt's "The Righteous Mind" book shining an interesting light on this issue
tldr of the book: people are scared of foreign stuff, and other people gaslighting their beliefs onto them while appealing to their emotions seems to be the most effective strategy to convince someone
disclaimer: the author is probably a lib, but the psychology component is interesting
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