My cousin and I have this on going debate and i wanted to see what other people think. My cousin is Catholic and wont eat meat on Fridays durring lent but she will eat fish. When I asked her why, she told me because fish isnt meat. It doesnt make sense to me since fish is an animal, it should be considered meat. What do you think?
2007-09-04 08:16:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If fish is not a meat, what is it?
2007-09-04 08:29:14 · update #1
In the first century, Jews fasted on Mondays and Thursdays. The original Christians were all Jewish and were used to the fasting as a spiritual discipline. They moved the fast days to Wednesdays and Fridays, because Judas engineered Jesus' arrest on a Wednesday and Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Most often that fast took the form of avoiding meat in the diet. In those days, meat was a luxury food. You either had to buy it in a market or you had to own enough land to keep cattle. On the other hand, anyone could grow vegetables or forage for them, and anyone could catch a fish in a lake or a stream. You could buy better fish and vegetables, but the point is that you could eat without money if you were poor. So meat was rich people's food and fish was poor people's food. That is why the most common form of fasting was to omit meat and eat fish.
2007-09-04 08:21:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think you have asked a great question. I'm actually currently debating this with my Catholic family at this very moment. My wife is vegan and from the research that we have done, flesh is flesh, like one of the other posters has already said. So to answer your question why is it ok for Catholics to eat fish during lent? Because the Church said so. I am a Christian and although I don't agree with the Catholic Church and its "religions" at times, I've seen it bring people closer to a relationship with Jesus Christ.
2016-04-03 03:26:03 · answer #2 · answered by Gail 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah my cousin is a vegitarian and I told her a fish is still an animal, and it's still meat. For some reason they think the cute cows and fluffy chicks are more important than the ugly fish I guess.
2007-09-04 08:21:47 · answer #3 · answered by Tanjo22 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fish is technically meat but it's also very different than all land dwelling flesh so... it's just a different category of meat.
2007-09-04 08:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Neutrality(NO) 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The same folks that tell ya it is ok for a priest to commit pedophilia, but not ok for consent adults to be homosexuals, have also told you fish is a plant.
What is the problem with that?
2007-09-04 08:35:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Eat anything you want. The "don't eat meat on Friday" nonsense is a part of the catholic cult. Catholics are not saved Christians. Catholicism is a Babylonian pagan cult that takes a few out of context Christian concepts to deceive.
2007-09-04 08:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋
this catholic theology is not BIBLICAL.it is a man made tradition . the truth is a vegetarian diet was GOD'S original plan.. ancd ther are some animals that are forbidden. check it out in Deuteronmy, ans Numbers .. these are the diet principles JESUS used.and that is good enough for me.
2007-09-04 08:22:59 · answer #7 · answered by spotlite 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fish is not an animal.
Fish is not meat.
Beef is meat.
Your cousin is right.
2007-09-04 08:22:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's just another meaningless tradition......
I'm born again and saved by the blood of Christ.....
Eat away, my friend. We are not saved by what goes into our bodies......we are saved by grace
2007-09-04 08:21:30 · answer #9 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
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2007-09-04 08:28:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋