RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?
November 29, 2017 at 4:55 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 5:17 am by Fake Messiah.)
Alexmahone has a point. If this world was designed by anyone who has even a grain of compassion then there really is no reason not to avoid this predator-prey madness that stains our world with so much blood. The populations of various species could be controlled by tinkering with fertility rates rather than disease and predation. Life could have been based on photosynthesis and chemosynthesis and there would be no continual slaughter happening every day, let alone the pollution, food shortage and diseases that come from growing livestock.
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"
