Is God a Vegetarian?: Christianity, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights

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Summary: Utterly fantastic!
Review: One of the most important things about this book is that it does NOT, I repeat NOT, try to reinvent Jesus as a vegetarian. There have been some attempts to try to "prove" Jesus was vegetarian, but the author finds the evidence for such reinventions to not be compelling. The author basically concludes that some consumption of meat is biblically acceptable, so long as the animal has been treated with care and compassion during its life. On the other hand, the author also concludes that vegetarian is preferred, and factory farming would have to be contemptable in God's eyes. By the way, I'm personally an agnostic, and one of the reasons why I have turned away from Christianity is that the Christian church, in general, does not see the obvious truth to the immorality of factory farming. This book is must reading.

Rating:
Summary: Utterly fantastic!
Review: One of the most important things about this book is that it does NOT, I repeat NOT, try to reinvent Jesus as a vegetarian. There have been some attempts to try to "prove" Jesus was vegetarian, but the author finds the evidence for such reinventions to not be compelling. The author basically concludes that some consumption of meat is biblically acceptable, so long as the animal has been treated with care and compassion during its life. On the other hand, the author also concludes that vegetarian is preferred, and factory farming would have to be contemptable in God's eyes. By the way, I'm personally an agnostic, and one of the reasons why I have turned away from Christianity is that the Christian church, in general, does not see the obvious truth to the immorality of factory farming. This book is must reading.

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Summary: Affirmational for Christian vegetarians
Review: This an intelligent, well-argued book. It will help Christianvegetarians to explain themselves and witness vegetarianism toChristian non-vegetarians.... this is a very worthwhile book forthose who realize that God is about peace and not violence of anykind. Killing animals unneccesarily is cruel and neither God norJesus would condone it if we had the chance to ask them, and this bookgives scriptural and historical information to explain why.

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