JESUS WAS A VEGETARIAN, OR SO THEY CLAIM!

By Ryan Hicks

There is a blasphemous group claiming that Jesus was a vegetarian. They blaspheme every step of the way, and for what reason, to prove Jesus was a new age vegetarian guru like they wish?

You can visit them at: http://www.jesusveg.com

Here are some of their blasphemies:

"There is a wealth of controversy surrounding Paul's writings, with some Christians taking it all as absolutely accurate, and most scholars agreeing that some of the letters were written many years after Paul's death. Paul was certainly writing to a specific community at a specific period in history. His writings on meat eating indicate a desire to include both Gentile converts (mostly meat eaters) and the Jewish Christian direct disciples of Jesus (mostly vegetarians). Paul has a great desire to accommodate slave owners (Philemon) and meat eaters, despite the direct contradiction of meat eating and slavery with Jesus' counsel that human beings should be compassionate and merciful."

"So how true to Jesus' life are the fish stories?
Evidence indicates that the post-resurrection stories are very late additions to the Gospels, and that the earliest accounts of the multiplication miracle (the story of the loaves and the fishes) did not originally include fish."

"Post-resurrection fish consumption
Most scholars agree that the post-resurrection stories of Jesus eating fish were added to the Gospels long after they were written, in order to settle various schisms in the early Church. (e.g., the Marcionites and other early Christians believed that Jesus did not actually return in the flesh. What better way to prove that he did than to depict him eating?) The scribes who added the stories were not, apparently, averse to eating fish. But since this is the only depiction anywhere in the Gospels of Jesus eating any animals at all, it seems clear that he was."

"Fish were added to the stories by Greek scribes, probably because the Greek word for fish, ixous, is an acronym for the phrase "Jesus Christ Son of God Savior." Indeed, the fish is still a symbol of Christianity today. In this very likely interpretation, the multiplication represents a prediction of the burgeoning Church, and has nothing to do with eating animals.

Also, some scholars contend that the Greek word for "fishweed" (a dried seaweed) has been mistranslated in this story as "fish" (see Rosen, Scholarly Works). It is certainly true that dried fishweed would be more likely in a basket with bread, and fishweed remains a popular food among Jewish and Arab peasants like the people to whom Jesus was speaking."

"Many billions of fish are killed every year for food in this country. We all understand that it is immoral, antithetical to Christian mercy, to torture dogs and cats. It is equally unchristian to torture or kill (or pay others to torture and kill) fishes and other animals. Although they may not be able to scream out in pain, fish have the same capacity for suffering and the same right to our Christian compassion as do dogs, cats, and other human beings."

"For example, in Jesus' time, animal sacrifice was an excuse for human beings to eat animal flesh, and Jesus challenged animal sacrifice at every turn. He drove those selling animals for sacrifice and consumption out of the temple, instituted baptism in place of animal sacrifice, said that God "requires mercy, not sacrifice," and eliminated animal sacrifice altogether at the Last Supper (a vegetarian Passover meal)."

These people make Jesus into some make-believe, effeminate, girly-boy vegetarian while they deny the Bible (see the picture below for their effeminate Roman Catholic-type "Jesus"), make up things to disprove the Bible, lump animal rights in with human rights as if they are on the same level, dreams up foolish theories about Jesus doing things because He was a vegetarian, etc. They have essentially made a savior for the vegetarians and those "poor tortured animals that are being slaughtered for evil man."