QOTW: ...who would it be? - The Pope

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Hello,

 

Very interesting question.

 

Even though I am not Catholic, I would say the Catholic Pope because what he

says,

believes, has so much influence on so many people throughout the world -

Catholic and

otherwise.

 

One would think that Catholic Franciscanism would embrace vegetarianism, since

Francis

of Assisi is depicted as being surrounded by animals (who he called " brother

and sister " ),

but I was disappointed to discover that most Franciscan monks and nuns

frequently eat

meat.

 

In fact, I was REALLY surprised to learn that Francis himself was said to have

eaten meat. If

that is indeed the case, then I think all of those little critters surrounding

him in paintings

and yard sculptures better run for their lives.

 

Not long ago, I asked a Franciscan nun who helped to run a farm at a monastary

how she

felt about raising animals there to be killed for " food. " She said, " Oh, now,

the man at the

slaughter house say that the cows are so happy when they walk towards the

slaughter pen

because they know they are serving God by willingly offering their lives for the

good of

others. They know that this is their purpose in life. "

 

To which I responded to the nun: " Well, when one of your cows TELLS me this,

then I will

believe it. Otherwise, I don't. "

 

Anyway, I would say the Catholic Pope is the one person I would most like to see

turn to

vegetarianism. Of course, I would like to see the entire world go veggie

(smile).

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" Old Man " Jim

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, " ~ PT ~ " <patchouli_troll wrote:

>

> Here is a question of the week we did once before

> about a year ago, but we have so many new

> members now and the answers back then were

> fun as I recall.

>

> QOTW for March 25th-31st:

>

> If you wished for anyone in the world that is not currently

> a vegetarian to become one [on their own], who would it be

> and why?

>