(April 26, 2010 at 4:29 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Fluké, do you think vegetarianism is only a social group? There is very much a doctrine there (eating meat is bad, as its unhealthy and/or immoral) and has some very hardcore fundamentalists defending it (even outcasting other vegetarians when they do eat cheese or eggs or drink milk). Sae's example really is a good one. And it would not be fair to other vegetarians to compare them to these fundamentalists and condemn them as crackpots either. Now I realise you probably don't generalize all theists either but it seems my fellow Pastafarian here did.
Vegetarianism doesn't claim to be the voice of God on Earth, proclaim to have truths which are unsubstantiated and claims that we should follow their agenda to be rewarded with salvation.
It may be a social group on a basic point, but it operates on a different level to the rest. That's how I see it anyway.
