May I?
I think what Ervin is trying to point out is the fact that some people go veg*n(<--this is just a short way of spelling vegetarian/vegan) for religious reasons, whereas some people refuse to do so because their holy book says it's okay to eat animal products.
Personally, I didn't go veg for religious reasons. While I was still a Xian when I became a vegetarian, I wasn't thinking about my invisible sky-daddy, what he would think about me if I stopped eating meat, or why he would even put animals on this earth in the first place. All I was the thinking about were my little animal friends(please don't judge me on the way I phrased that).
Ervin, if that indeed is what you're trying to say, well, this may've been said a million times before but I'll just repeat it for the hell of it, we don't need a god to be good people!
As for the whole compassion over killing stuff, one can be compassionate and still eat meat. Compassion can only go so far, nobody's perfect. Not even me. I mean, I'm not even a vegan (yet), I still eat dairy products. It's just that only so many people take their compassion [for animals, in this case] as far as their diet. Others go as far as rescuing animals from a shelter. This is all regardless of whether or we believe in "god"(And allow me to point out that on a veg*n message board that I frequent, there is quite a large number of atheists and agnostics, myself included).
I think what Ervin is trying to point out is the fact that some people go veg*n(<--this is just a short way of spelling vegetarian/vegan) for religious reasons, whereas some people refuse to do so because their holy book says it's okay to eat animal products.
Personally, I didn't go veg for religious reasons. While I was still a Xian when I became a vegetarian, I wasn't thinking about my invisible sky-daddy, what he would think about me if I stopped eating meat, or why he would even put animals on this earth in the first place. All I was the thinking about were my little animal friends(please don't judge me on the way I phrased that).
Ervin, if that indeed is what you're trying to say, well, this may've been said a million times before but I'll just repeat it for the hell of it, we don't need a god to be good people!
As for the whole compassion over killing stuff, one can be compassionate and still eat meat. Compassion can only go so far, nobody's perfect. Not even me. I mean, I'm not even a vegan (yet), I still eat dairy products. It's just that only so many people take their compassion [for animals, in this case] as far as their diet. Others go as far as rescuing animals from a shelter. This is all regardless of whether or we believe in "god"(And allow me to point out that on a veg*n message board that I frequent, there is quite a large number of atheists and agnostics, myself included).
Don’t ask.
