Re: Theos-World En: vegetarianism
Nov 05, 2003 05:42 PM
by Bart Lidofsky
stevestubbs wrote:
The spiritual basis for vegetarianism in Buddhism is that it observes
one of the Five Grave Precepts, which forbids us to kill. The same
precept was made part of Judaism, but they interpreted it rather
loosely as applying only to human beings of their own tribe.
Bullshit. The precept, translated from Hebrew, states, "don't murder."
There's a difference between murder and killing.
Bart
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