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- From: mayne@ds2.scri.fsu.edu (Bill Mayne)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Re: New Age paranoia
- Message-ID: <Nov.20.00.15.01.1992.7847@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 05:15:05 GMT
- Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu
- Reply-To: mayne@ds2.scri.fsu.edu (Bill Mayne)
- Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
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- In article <Nov.19.01.57.26.1992.826@geneva.rutgers.edu> altheimm@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu (Murray Altheim) writes:
- >
- >And in my experience, most pagans I have met are opposed to killing
- >animals for anything other than food, and believe that ALL life is
- >sacred...
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- In fact quite a few are opposed to killing animals even for food
- and are consequently vegetarians.
-
- In my opinion anyone who is not a vegetarian and who claims to
- believe the Bible, which attributes specific instructions and
- commandments for animal sacrifice to God, is extremely hypocritical
- to condemn the few who practice animal sacrifice on moral grounds,
- as opposed to theological disagreement. The fact that ritual animal
- sacrifice is no longer practiced by main stream Christians nor
- prescribed in the New Testament is no defense if you believe that
- God today is the same as the one in the Old Testament.
-
- Bill Mayne
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