hi everyone I want to talk a little bit
about religion and veganism so in most
religions that I have read about and
studied like Christianity Buddhism
Jainism etc I found that many of these
religions do teach compassion but it
also it's people's interpretation of
what's in the Bible they pick and choose
what they really want to read or what
they want to believe and they want to
misinterpret what other passages say now
you can definitely say that Christianity
and the Bible and Buddhism are all vegan
and if you really look at certain
passages yes they are vegans passages
like Genesis 1:29 and 30 like Buddhism
where the first precept is not to take a
life not to harm another but then people
twist the meanings because they want to
consume animals just because that is
what the religion religion mandates now
in certain religions like Jainism and
Buddhism they may or even in Hinduism
they may preach vegetarianism but they
still are part of the hurting paradigm
the hurting culture which is seeing
other animals as property and us food
and so if we are still consuming any
animal products no matter where it comes
from no matter how it's derived no
matter what labels are attached to it
we're still using exploiting and
stealing from animals non-human animals
so when we take a look at religion as a
whole it is still an institution and
institutions are here in this capitalist
society
maybe capitalist or communism or
whatever Society it's still based on one
thing herding animals seeing non-human
animals as property and us things to be
used especially for food so we're never
going to change anything in this society
unless we change the core paradigm which
is capitalism and capitalism is hurting
a hurting culture because Pepita means
head as a head of cows sheeps goats etc
so again the only way to change the
whole system is to create a new system
totally new and disregard the other
system which is hurting of animals
herding culture so even though religions
a lot of religions and spiritual
traditions teach compassion and love and
caring and so forth religions as a whole
as an institution does not it
continuously teaches and reinforces
people to consume animals and animal
products and I mean all animals products
may be animals used for food clothing
entertainment pets what-have-you we
still see other beings as property we
still see them as things to be used
we still think
they're things like their secretions to
be used and consumed I'm talking about
all animals and all animal products and
no matter how they're derived and so we
must be vegan we must stop eating the
flesh of animals and secretions of
animals dairy eggs honey etc animal
clothing animals for entertainment
testing etc we must also understand the
negative implications of pet ownership
and of sanctuaries now I'm not saying
that we should disregard all pet
relationship with humans or sanctuaries
I'm not saying they're all bad or
they're all not they don't have their
own you know positive place in the world
but as a whole we should strive to get
away from rescuing get away from
sanctuaries get away from a pet
ownership and focus more on vegan
advocacy because in my opinion pets and
sanctuaries there are many negative
implications and we must understand the
rescuing is a band-aid cure if we're not
for the majority of our time if we're
not promoting veganism for not
advocating for veganism and animal
rights then we're not really doing our
part if we're just rescuing rescuing
rescuing and talking about oh you need
to rescue and adopt and all these things
and not focusing on veganism then we're
not really focusing on the core problem
which is animals for food and yet yes
let's get people going vegan now I know
a lot of people don't want to hear about
these things but they must be heard the
truth must be heard no matter if people
like it or not
and so we get back to religion again
religion teaches us a lot of good things
but because you have to decipher the
meanings of things and also because it
was written in different languages
translated over eons of time to English
it has lost its true meaning it's true
translation because the Bible for
example was translated to or was written
in Hebrew and Greek supposedly and
because it's been translated so many
times with so many people and in
different versions it's really been
watered down there and lot of the Bible
wasn't even included there's a lot of
texts that have been buried or hidden or
lost and the truth yes people want to
suppress the truth because they don't
want basically religion is part of a
hurting culture so they don't want you
to know the truth about veganism now
there may be some hints or some passages
that are vegan but people don't majority
of people don't regard these passages
and these the Bible as a vegan Bible
they just continue consuming their
animal products and what happens in this
culture does hurting cultures the
culture itself wants to confuse you they
say one thing and then they say another
thing so they really confuses the person
they confuse the people they we are
based in a fear-based society so fear
and confusion and lies are really the
three biggest things of our hurting
society so in order to get away from
this is to understand that yeah there
are good things in the Bible we could
teach people certain passages or good
things about the Bible
the animals and each other and so forth
but in all in all we have to listen to
our hearts and not follow these books as
a whole because really they're just part
of an institution they're part of the
hurting culture and it's not gonna
change anything we need to create our
own communities of love our own world
our own system but is totally different
from the violent world that we live in
currently and we need to create loving
caring and peaceful world and
communities of love and we need to share
these principles and these ideas with
others so we need to share the ideas
that animal non-human animals or any one
for that matter are not property they're
not food they're not things in our
slade's
we need to free all animals now of
course there are very rare cases that
very hard situations where we just
cannot throw animals out onto the street
because that wouldn't be ethical
especially during cold weather and there
are a lot of them you know a lot of
situations where you just can't do that
we just can't release animals into
nature but at the same time let's focus
majority of our time on vegan advocacy
and some people say well your approaches
is all or nothing and it's like really
that's that's what it is
if we are running for the finish line if
we're striving for the finish line we're
striving for the finish line I mean yeah
we are striving for each goal to the
finish line for sure but we're actually
striving for the finish line if we want
to live in a Garden of Eden we preach
living in the Garden of Eden we don't
preach okay let's let's just you know
how make baby steps know baby steps are
for babies not for us we need to
advocate for veganism we need
educate for freeing everyone for non
slavery for non-violence for loving and
caring world let's implement what we
truly want what do we want we want the
animals to be free what do we want you
want all all the animals human non-human
we want the earth to be liberated we
want people to be vegan that's what we
want we want more and more and more
restaurants to convert to veganism to be
vegan all the businesses to eventually
to actually right now to be vegan
we don't want tomorrow we want now but
that's not the reality we know that it's
gonna take it's you know at least
several years for big changes to happen
and so again to recap religion we should
not follow religion as a whole as an
institution we should not follow we
should follow our hearts yes there are
good parts and good things about
religions and about the holy books like
Bible and so forth but at the same time
let's not take these things there's
truth as the word let's follow our
hearts let's promote veganism that's
really what I want to say if anybody has
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