I was idly considering which of the Minor Prophets spoke best American, when a thought hit me. Given their stupid and superstitious belief in transubstantiation, which might have fooled the ignorant in the Dark Ages, but which today marks the Whore of Babylon as a liar,
“How could a vegan or vegetarian be a Catholic?” Drinking blood and eating meat is a non-starter. The fact that neither the wine nor the death cookie are animal to start with, and yet, once in your body turn to those things is rather like God playing a dirty trick on you.
Now, I am not saying that God can’t do whatever he likes,after all, He gave Moses a stick that turned into a snake, and that must have come as a surprise, first to Moses and then to “The Children of Israel”. But God, in that case, did not actually cause a person to commit a personally abhorrent action.
We have Jesus raising people from the dead – now, if you stood to inherit a fortune, then that was the sort of “rain on your parade”moment, but then worrying about money when someone’s just bought the farm is not a Godly thing to be doing anyway.
“Yes, yes,” I hear you say, “But did not God and various prophets strike people dead from time to time?”
Well, of course He did! You either haven’t read the Bible or are suggesting that I have not – a mistake in both cases!
God strikes people dead for the most just of reasons – remember that guy in
2Sa:6:6 –7? And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Uzzah touched the Ark of the Covenant and was smitten with a great smitance. He got what was coming – case closed.
But vegans and vegetarians… where are we with this one? Abel was a vegetarian and insulted God with an offering of roots, twigs and leaves –any Deity is bound to be upset by the implied “You’re a vegetarian like me aren’t you?” attitude. Abel’s action can only be seen as blasphemy: Able assumed God was like him. So when Cain had Abel buy a pine condo, it was a sort of “Divine Justice” (although from God’s leniency to Cain, you can see that the traffic wasn’t all one way.)
Nevertheless, if vegetarians and vegans want to keep the demand for, and thus the price of, prime beef down then I’m not going to stop them – God’ll see to them if they get too uppity. So what is the Roman Catholic Church doing here? Is it hanging on to a lie just because it always has done? Is the so-called Church refusing to admit the truth as usual? Is this another cover-up?
Your ideas are welcome.