(October 27, 2015 at 4:23 am)ignoramus Wrote: Also, if we evolved without intelligence and didn't learn to make fire, would we still be meat eaters today?
Humans were probably eating meat since they were apes, but still it's not good to eat meat anymore because these animals that "we" eat today are not the same animals. For starters today's cows and pigs have something like 50% of fat to meat ratio, while wild animals have 5% so that's one of the reason why so many people suffer cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and mental illnesses. Other reasons are truly appealing conditions livestock is being held in: they frequently walk in their own shit to their knuckles (if they are allowed to walk at all) and pumped with steroids and antibiotics and other stuff.
I mean if you eat meat you eat it for proteins and today you can get them from other sources, it's not stone-age anymore. For instance there are protein powders. I've been vegetarian for many years and for breakfast and dinner I blend some fruit and vegetables with a cup (usually 25 grams) of protein powder and it's more energetic, tastier and not to mention healthier.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
