Though shalt not kill, remember this commandment?

Question

But this moral rule is out the door when reffering to SOME animals. People, we cant pick and choose what "rules" we want to obey. Wrong to kill your cat, right to kill a cow, a pig, a lamb. If God (a good God) wanted us to eat animals why would God create these animals with the ability to feel and suffer? Why not just create another type of plant with a meaty texture? Why something that roams and breathes and loves its family, too? Thats because its wrong, and just another hypocrisy. People, we cant just pick and choose what we want to accept as right. Books, beliefs, ect, all invented by other people. People who know nothing more than the rest of us.

Im not Christian, I dont care what the man-made book says.

Dear, there is no reason to kill for food. we are not barbarians in the jungle, we have millions of non-animal options and if you just open your eyes at Publix, youll see its not about carrots and lettuce. You cant justify death for tastebuds.

Answer 1

God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: "Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth. Dread fear of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures that move about on the ground and all the fishes of the sea; into your power they are delivered. Every creature that is alive shall be yours to eat; I give them all to you as I did the green plants. (Genesis 9:1-3)

The Catholic Church teaches:

+ It is a sin to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.

+ It is not a sin to kill animals with as little suffering as possible for food, clothing, and the health and safety of humans.

+ Medical and scientific experimentation on animals is a morally acceptable practice if it remains within reasonable limits and contributes to caring for or saving of human lives.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Yes you got a point but what can we expect? This commandment is said to have been handed down by the so-called God to Moses but Moses himself murdered countless of people afterward, in Deut 2:34 moses told that they captured and destroyed every town and put everyone to death; men, women and children, and left no survivors. In Deut 3:6, he again brag that "We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women and children, just as we did in the towns of King Sihon." If believers can even justify actions like this with endless reasoning, they can also do the same with animals.

Answer 3

The only true hypocrisy comes from those who choose to ignore the rest of the text that clears up the question asked. A typical choice made by argumentative people who do not really want an answer, they find there satisfaction in little minute statements which have been answered 100,000 times but have chosen to ignore it. Why even bother asking, when you already know that you will refuse the answer from the same book when it is shown to you?

Answer 4

The fifth commandment applied to people. I think it is you who are picking and chosing. God told the Israelites to KILL a lamb for the passover. God told Elijah to KILL an animal for the contest with the worshippers of Baal. And right after God gave the ten commandments, God told the Israelites to enter Jericho and kill all the inhabitants except those in the home of Rehab, the prostitute who had helped the Israelite spies. God KILLED the first born of all the families of Egypt during the Passover.

By they way, I am a vegetarian and a peace activist and a spiritual person. May I suggest that you turn your outrage about killing to places like Sudan where 3 million PEOPLE have been killed in the past 25 years? Or any other place in the world where genocide is being carried out by murder and purposeful starvation of entire populations. As for me, I will put my energy to helping people rather than getting my knickers in a wad over a cat.

Answer 5

1. Either you mean to say God created animals so we shouldn't eat them because they suffer and it makes us hypocrites - I say that's interesting but you really need a little more theology to back yourself up with
2. Or you seem to be saying that there is no god because a good god wouldn't let animals suffer - which I would argue that as long as we're here by chance and nature is such an ugly brutal place, let's remain on the top of the food chain where we put ourselves.

Sweetie, if you want to be a vegetarian for whatever reason that's ok with me. Just don't stamp your foot and tell me what a mean ol' hypocrite I am. It's not a compelling argument at all and only irritates the people you're trying to convince.

Answer 6

it says something in the new testament about it being an insult to god to refuse all food offered to his people.i know that this was a reference to the jews who became christians but were in a delemma about eating unclean foods like the gentiles who became christians.paul also said the same.i was a vegeterian for 4 years and had to give it up as i was constantly run down and sick.

Answer 7

Not that I believe what the bible says,( at least I've read it, and other books about religions, so I have made my own decisions,) But, the bible says that god put animals on the earth for the use of man, he didn't specify what that meant, also animals don't have "thoughts" about home or family, like humans do, because they don't have the same brain waves as man. Also, some cultures do eat cats, dogs, guinea pigs.

Answer 8

the rather ten commandments are: For i'm the Lord your God: You shall no longer have unusual Gods earlier me. You shall no longer take the call of the Lord your God in ineffective. you would be wanting to maintain holy the Lord’s Day. Honor your mothers and dads. You shall no longer kill. You shall no longer devote adultery. You shall no longer thieve. You shall no longer undergo fake witness against your neighbor. You shall no longer covet your neighbor’s spouse. You shall no longer covet your neighbor’s products. in case you spot the 2nd commandment of the Protestant ten commandments isn't interior the Catholic one. the reason for it rather is interior the bible it is not a separate sentence like the 9th and tenth Catholic commandment. the 2nd Protestant commandment is blanketed interior the 1st Catholic one.

Answer 9

I think you have a very kind heart.

While I don't think it is okay for us to mistreat or inhumanely kill animals, I do think it is okay for us to eat meat. We are a part of the food web. All living things take their nutrients from other living things, whether those be animals, plants, or dead organisms.

I personally choose to purchase meat from farmers who gave the animals a chance to live a healthy life, before being slaughtered.

*I feel this way without any scriptures. I have respect for all living things, and do not wish unnecessary harm on anything.

Answer 10

Well, we don't have to kill and eat any animals I guess. We could eat plants. But plants are alive too! Oh, and there are some now who won't kill the plants either, only eating seeds & stuff. Well, seeds contain the potential for life, so they're killing potential!
What the heck are we supposed to eat then? We can't all be Buddhist monks, for heaven's sake! What do they eat, by the way?
Go pick all the worms out of your front lawn in case your kid steps on one of them, and go pick up all the ants crawling in your sidewalk & driveway and put them somewhere safe, then we'll talk.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO STEP ON THEM. THEY FEEL AND SUFFER TOO. THEY ARE HELPLESS. STOP KILLING THEM!