Would you? Could you? Should you?

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Hi Tom

 

> I agree we have a long way to go on the civilisation front, but I don't believe culture or religious beliefs are ever an excuse for

> mistreatment of animals, gays, women, or anyone. A free, open, secular, democratic society where rights and liberties are

> protected is the only way to go.

 

You'll let us know when you find such a society? :-)

 

BB

Peter

 

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I don't think they had those problems when the Bible was written. Although

not a Christian I hope for respect for everyone's religions.

 

Jo

 

> What's god got to say about food miles, overpackaging and

> processing, labour exploitation, cash crops, genetically modified

> crops and monocultural growing systems leading to soil erosion and

> nitrate build ups in the ground water as entailed in the commercial

> mass production of cocoa, soya and chick peas???

 

 

 

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They're not in my book!

 

Jo

 

 

They don't actually make straight-jackets anymore. But why is someone conversing with god religious & someone conversing with fairies insane?

 

 

 

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LOL

 

To Pagans an apple is symbolic of life.

 

Jo

 

>

> Once upon a time a fairy was flying around nothing and was getting very

> bored so decided to create a heaven and an earth.The fairy took six days

to

> making all kinds of creatures , making man and women the guardians of the

> earth. The fairy said to the man and woman " I give you all the fruit

bearing

> seeds across the whole earth that shall be yours for food and for the

> animals the green plants " in fact everything that has the breathe of life

> in it that shall be yours for food. Man and woman knew they weren't

supposed

> to eat from one tree ' the tree of knowledge of good an bad 'so they

didn't.

> The fairy was a Good/God fairy and let them stay in the garden to eat from

> the tree of life to live forever and ever.

> Now boys and girls do you know what would of happened if they had eaten

> from the tree of knowledge of good and bad. They would have been waved out

> of the garden by the good fairy because the fairy didn't want them to eat

> from the tree of life while they had eaten from the tree of knowledge of

> good and bad, because they would have lived forever doing wrong and the

> God/fairy didn't want them living forever doing wrong.

> So their lives would have been in hardship only for a short time.

>

> Aren't we the lucky ones

>

> S

> What a God/fairy.

>

> S

>

>

>

> >

> > This is turning into bible class....can we please have more from the

> fairies!

> > Pete H

> > AKA The valley vegan.

> > > interpretation

> > >the bible is full of contradictions...

> > >in genesis it sez " all the plants and nuts will be as your meat " (i'm

> > >paraphrasing.), and a few other places veggieness is definately

> touted(its a

> > >very essene thought)..

> > >its in places like after the flood that god allows noah to eat

> animals.....

> > >

> > >

> > >In a message dated 5/5/03 12:07:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

> > >janewwt writes:

> > >

> > > I'm not a Christian so maybe I'm missing the point. But

the

> > > argument that I get from Christians supporting meat eating is that the

> > > big-man upstairs put animals on the earth for humans use (inc eating).

> Is

> > > there a passage in the bible that explicitly states this, or, is it

down

> to

> > > subjective interpretation? Is it that this passage only refers to

seeds

> > > because 'he' hadn't got around to creating other animals yet? Sorry

for

> > > asking possibly v. naive questions, but I want to be fully prepared

for

> my

> > > next 'lively debate' with my brother who happens to be a Christian

> > > meat-eater (interesting how siblings can be so different).

> > > I'll certainly look at the web-site you suggested,

> > >

> > >

> >

> > Peter H

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