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Re: a Post to alt.hindu Why this Ramakrishna- Vivekananda bashing?
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To: alt-hindu@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: a Post to alt.hindu Why this Ramakrishna- Vivekananda bashing?
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From: vijaypai@pi.rice.edu (Vijay Sadananda Pai)
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Date: 19 Jan 1995 21:03:43 GMT
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From news@larry.rice.edu Thu Jan 19 15: 51:18 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Rice University
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References: <3fk275$m5m@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3fk275$m5m@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, Pete Bastien <ptbast@wpi.edu> wrote:
>Vijay Sadananda Pai (vijaypai@kachori.rice.edu) wrote (in part):
>: 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
>Although this is not directly related to the topic at hand, I would like
>to see this evidence that Jesus was a vegetarian.
Note that, in the Greek text, Jesus is not "Jesus of Nazareth"
but rather "Jesus the Nazarene". The difference: of Nazareth just means
from a specific town, whereas Nazarene means belonging to a specific
sect. That particular sect is said to have practiced a somewhat
mystical form of Judaism which included 1) long beards
2) [mostly] vegetarian diets. Also, the Greek words for meat are
never used in connection with Jesus. Note that where the King
James Bible shows Jesus saying "Give her meat" the Greek says
only "Let her eat", for example. Most of the instances where food
was referred to has been translated as "meat" instead. There
are other examples that I am forgetting right now. The preface
to _The Higher Taste_ vegetarian cookbook discusses these.
I'm sure this has been discussed on many groups for years, so
there is no point starting it up again. I have only cited some
evidences. I am not very concerned with this.
>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.
Well, Christianity was mostly considered a sect of Judaism for a
while... There are still some sects, like 7th day adventists, who
are philosophically committed to vegetarianism and most of whom
also practice it.
-- Vijay
