command thingy

[brionon]

If it says-''Thou shall not Kill'' why aren't you all vegetarians ?

[Ethel]

Who says we are all Christians?

However, the Bible refers to the killing of people, not animals. In the Book of Matthew, Jesus explains the sixth commandment as meaning 'Thou Shalt Not Murder'.

Christians have actively participated in killing through the ages - in war, and as capital punishment. This is not considered sinful as there is no intent to murder from personal hatred of that person.

[pie+mash]

Because I'm not religious, and I love meat.

[dot.hawkes]

so if we didn't raise sheep and cattlew to eat, what would we do with them? leave them to eat the grass in the sumer? Which if we had a food shortage due to being none flesh eating we would have to eat in some form ourselves? Or should we put the sheep and cattle in a field and watch them look cute? What will we do in the winter when there is not enough grass and they need hay and other supplements? Shall we spend money on it just so they can be turned out in the spring intop the lush fields and meadoes just to look pretty again? If we didn't use Sheep cattle pigs and chickens etc for food, what would their purpose be domestically? they would have to all be turned outy into the wild i guess.

[Ethel]

Dot - you can be sure that if the whole of the UK was vegan the only place you would see chickens, pigs, sheep and cows would be in specialist 'rare breeds' zoos and so on.

[Lonnie]

'Thou Shalt not Kill' what?. it doesn't say, when you eat vegetables, are we not killing them?. eating them alive, boilng them alive, and so it goes on etc, etc.

[makemesmile]

I agree with the first comment. The bible is a primative peoples' story book/attempt at explaining some stuff they didn't understand (in my opinion - but I respect others). And not being a Christian, I'm not bound by it's rules.

[Quizmonster]

Only the first four of the Ten Commandments are specifically 'religious'. The remaining six are purely devised to ensure society - ie people, not animals - has a code to live by in relation one to another. It's really quite a good idea not to commit adultery, tell lies, kill each other and so on.

[makemesmile]

It's just a shame that some people need a book to work it out for them.

[CLOWN TICKLE]

In Genesis, it describes Adam and Eve eating, fruit grains and vegetables and then later after they disobeyed god animals were slaughtered to provide clothes to cover up their sin, as a christian in various debates it is humans who must not be killed, PS Im a meat eater

[Octavius]

Genesis 9:1-6
After the flood God gave animals into the hand of man and said that "every moving thing" is food for us, just like plants are food. Killing man is forbidden because man is in God's image, but killing animals for food is authorized since they are not in God's image.

This passage expressly states, both that God permits man to eat animal meat, and that God's rules against killing people do not apply to animals.

[Octavius]

Brionon your bi-annual attempts at condemning THE CHURCH always make me smile.

You might have been better asking:

If the bible say's, 'thou shall not kill', then why do we?

[brionon]

Oct. I don't Kill ,not spiders or flies, nothing.

[Octavius]

Do you ever kill time?

[morbidstorm]

also what about germs?

[sponsmith]

BTW, how do you know we are not "all" vegetarians?

[mbuzzburrows]

Because the ten commandments come under the myth section of this "history and myths" section!