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Re: a Post to alt.hindu Why this Ramakrishna- Vivekananda bashing?
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: a Post to alt.hindu Why this Ramakrishna- Vivekananda bashing?
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From: ptbast@wpi.edu (Pete Bastien)
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Date: 18 Jan 1995 16:15:26 GMT
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Distribution: world
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From news@WPI.EDU Wed Jan 18 11: 05:18 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Organization
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References: <3fhhpc$2ag@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
Vijay Sadananda Pai (vijaypai@kachori.rice.edu) wrote (in part):
: Speaking the words of the Vedas is not narrow-minded or sectarian.
: Almost every religion has a vegetarian tradition at its heart, although
: most of them have lost it by now. Early books in even Judaism and
: Christianity require vegetarianism. There is a lot of evidence that
: Jesus was a vegetarian. Vegetarianism is the most nonsectarian
: moral rule one could find in many such scriptures.
Although this is not directly related to the topic at hand, I would like
to see this evidence that Jesus was a vegetarian. Did he not eat fish
with his disciples? Did he not participate in the Passover Supper which
includes the ritual sacrifice of a lamb and the consuming of the entire
lamb (the leftovers are burnt in a fire)? These two incidents would certain
lend credibility to the idea that Jesus was not a vegetarian.
As to the religous basis for vegetarianism among early Christian, the
doctrine states that it is not what one consumes that make the person
good or evil, but rather how that person acts. This was a break from
the Jewish idea of ritual cleanliness.
