How is fish not a meat?

Question

For all the people who don't eat meat on Fridays during Lent, but you can eat fish....... how is fish not a meat? I don't like seafood, but fish looks like a meat to me.

And don't go slamming me for asking; because i am a Christian; just never understood the fish and Lent thing.

Answer 1

Gosh, i have always wondered the same thing. How can people say they don't eat "meat" on Friday's yet eat fish. I always thoguht it was meat too. Great question.

Answer 2

I thought that this "rule" was eliminated from the Catholic doctrine at Vatican II. Anyways, it was traditionally an act of penance to remember Christ's suffering on Good Friday. I don't think there is any significance to the choice of fish over animal meat, but fish is less filling and this light meal was just a way for folks to sustain their strength but make a small sacrifice for their faith.

Answer 3

Of course fish is a meat - it is a dead animal - the 'tradition' goes back to when any meat other than fish was a 'rich' mans food, but fish could be caught, so was considered a 'poor' mans food, so in having fish on Fridays it meant you were depriving yourself, as you weren't eating a 'luxury' food - and Jesus was crucified on a Friday.

Answer 4

I don't know, but the idea spills over even among secular-minded people: "Oh, I'm a vegetarian, too! I just eat fish!"

Okay. If you have to, you know, cut a head off in order to eat it? It ain't vegetarian!

I believe it was because beef and pork were luxury items in the medieval era, and fish was easier to come by (just walk to the river and get you one!)

Answer 5

Lent. 40 days of morning for Tammuz,s death. Fish, one of the creatures that the Sun-god Nimrod oversees when his soul captured Sun sets and he becomes the fist god Neptune. This is one of the many festivals and feasts that the Roman Catholic church 'Christianized'.

Answer 6

Friend, I am a Christian also, Apostolic Pentacost. We have to see that the catholic Church has change many laws & rule & twisted many scriptures around to fit their man made ideals, I will eat fish or any kind of meat any date or day, when you'r hungry you'r hungry. You have many different ideals out there, But there is only ONE TRUTH

Answer 7

Good question. I've seen my husband fillet fish, and they do indeed have blood, so I'm not getting the distinction either. Maybe its because they're not mammals? If its the mammal thing, would that mean its okay to eat chicken?

Answer 8

Fish is meat. I comes from an animal. It has a face.

(Isn't that what the vegan bumper stickers says, "Don't eat anything with a face!")

Answer 9

The fish and Lent thing is not in the bible. It's an aded tradition due to the catholic church.

Answer 10

I am a therapist. As far as I know the fish is 100% meat.