* I could have shared that the only prayer that Jesus Christ – the ultra-nonviolent “ Prince of Peace ” – offers in the entire Bible has as one of its core verses the phrase “ Your will be done ; on Earth as it is in Heaven ”; essentially calling for us to alter course and make choices in this life that are as merciful and as loving as those that will be made in Paul ’ s perfect Paradise to come – and this , to all beings without exception ( see Matthew 9:13 , Matthew 10:29 , Matthew 23:25-27 , Luke 14:5 where Jesus speaks lovingly about animals &/ or non-lovingly about animal eaters ).
* And , after all of this had been said & done , I could have posed a poignant and very important question for all Christians – namely this one : Seeing as how there is clearly just as much Biblical evidence to support a vegan God of unconditional Love as there is to proclaim a non-vegan god of a far more limited Grace , why would anyone choose to champion the latter version of God – the one who shows a lesser Goodness ?
Of course , in the interest of concision , I am not going to be delving into any of those areas here in any depth . Instead , what I am going to do is pose two simple questions – for Christians the two most important questions that can be posed related to God ' s will for us and our animal cousins ...
* The first question is pretty straight forward , and goes as follows : if God created us humans to regularly eat animals , then why didn ' t he give us the digestive system required to effectively do so ?
* And the second question is somewhat like it – namely : if God created animals to be used by us humans as food , and if God created animals ' brains in such a way as to make them self-aware ( and therefore terrified of confinement & abuse & death ), and if God made animals ' bodies with nerve endings so that they suffer immensely when abused & murdered ... then WHY would you worship such a god ; a god who is at best fully incompetent , and at worst flagrantly inconsiderate – if not even diabolically cruel ?
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