Christ's Mess
or
"Not in my Name!"
Here A.Nonymous is delving into religion, and the utter carnage caused in the name of Jesus at Christmas time.......
While they die because of Karma,
Doesn't mean that they have armour,
The pain that they release will come to you like a debtor's lease,
Go on chew all you like, do you still feel hungry like a pike?
They get caught and stuffed you know,
That's why your world is full of woe.
And as for plants, do they repay?
Of course they do, so sow they may.
ON THE MASS KILLING OF ANIMALS:
It is likely that Jesus was a Vegetarian, it is known that Jesus's cousin, John the Baptist, was an Essene.
Essenes were a popular communal sect who were forbidden to sacrifice animals, they also would not eat meat, it is believed they ate un-leven bread (without yeast) as they recognised that yeast was a living entity. Both of these acts were considered unlawful.
However the New Testamount states that John ate locust* which if he was an Essene he could only do it the locust were killed by natural causes eg. died of stavation having eaten all that surrounds them. Others declare that Locusts are the Carob husk of the bean, which would certainly have been an approved food in the Essene doctrine.
Paul also refers to followers of Jesus abstaining from alcohol and meat.
Later when the Chritian Chuch (Ebonites) is established, it is known that the first appointed bishop is Jesus' brother James.... who is also recorded as being a vegetarian.
This is a small circle of vegetarians, the possibility of Jesus being vegetarian is looking very likely. Especially as in surviving texts, all of Jesus's other followers are not listed as being meat-eaters ie "Mary of Madelene could easliy eat 3 donner kebabs more than any of Jesus's deciples......" or "Mark was very dissapointed that there were no food sellers in Bethlehem selling minced lamb in a yeast risen bun........"
Also Jesus gets his diciples who are fishermen to pack in their job of killing fish for profit and follow him.
We also know that Jesus discusses sin/karma with his followes this is shown in detail in The Pool of Bethseda...
After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, [a]Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”
The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”
8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.
And that day was the Sabbath. The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”
He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your bed and walk.’ ”
Then they asked him, “Who is the Man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a multitude being in that place. Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
The man departed and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
*The most commonly held view of John’s diet, based on text in Mark,is that he ate locusts, a migratory form of grasshopper of the family Acrididae, still commonly consumed by desert peoples in Arabia. Others have suggested
the word translated “locusts” refers to the beans of the carob tree, commonly called “St. John’s bread.” However, the
Greek word translated “locusts,” (akris/ακρις) seems to clearly refer to a species of grasshopper. The problem is such eating of “flesh,” even if that of an insect, seems to contradict the sources that emphasize his ascetic vegetarian ideal.
Paul, for example, refers to members of the Jesus movement who abstain from eating meat and drinking wine (Roman
14:1-4). We also have traditions that James, the brother of Jesus, practiced a strictly vegetarian lifestyle, which was also common among the Jewish Christian community that became known as the “Ebionites,”possible solution to this confusion about John’s desert diet is found in the fragments we have of the lost “Gospel of the
Ebionites,” as quoted by the 4th-century Christian writer Epiphanius (Panarion 30.13.4-5), who hated the group but
fortunately, nonetheless, can’t resist quoting them–thus preserving some precious material. The Greek word for locusts
(akris/?κρ?δες) is very similar to the Greek word for “honey cake” (enkris/?γκρ?ς) that is used for the “manna” that the Israelites ate in the desert in the days of Moses. According to this ancient text was not locusts but these cakes cooked in olive oil. If this is the case then John would have eaten a cake of some type, made from a desert plant, similar to the “manna” that the ancient Israelites ate in the desert in the days of Moses. This “bread from heaven” is described as “like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey” (Exodus 16:31; Numbers 11:8). This kind of “pancake” baked in oil, and sweetened with honey, would then reflect and emulate the ideal holiness of the desert wanderings of Israel when the people had to look to God alone for “daily bread.”https://jamestabor.com/did-john-the-baptist-eat-bugs-beans-or-pancakes/
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