On 11/28/2014 10:59 AM, Derek wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:15:26 GMT, and/or
> www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:
>
>> Many portions of the Vedic literature describe how the
>> Supreme Being is the maintainer of innumerable living
>> entities, humans as well as the animals, and is alive in
>> the heart of every living being. Only those with
>> spiritual consciousness can see the same Supreme Being in
>> His expansion as Supersoul within every creature. To be
>> kind and spiritual toward humans and be a killer or enemy
>> toward animals is not a balanced philosophy, and exhibits
>> one's spiritual ignorance.
>>
>> The next reason for being vegetarian is to consider the
>> amount of fear and suffering that animals experience in
>> the slaughter industry. There are countless stories of
>> how in fear cows cry, scream, and sometimes fall down
>> dead while inside or even before they are taken into the
>> slaughter house. Or how the veins of dead pigs are so big
>> that it shows they have practically exploded from the
>> fear the pig felt and the adrenalin that was produced
>> while it was being led to slaughter. This certainly
>> causes an immense amount of violence to permeate the
>> atmosphere, which goes out and falls back on us in some
>> form. Furthermore, the adrenalin and fear in the animal
>> also produces toxins which then permeate the body of
>> these animals, which meat-eaters ingest. People who
>> consume such things cannot help but be effected by it. It
>> causes tensions within them individually, which then
>> spreads in their relations with others.
>>
>> The ancient Vedic text of the Manu-samhita (5.45-8) says,
>> "He who injures innoxious beings from a wish to give
>> himself pleasure never finds happiness, neither living
>> nor dead. He who does not seek to cause the suffering of
>> bonds and death to living creatures, but desires the good
>> of all beings, obtains endless bliss. . . Meat can never
>> be obtained without injury to living creatures, and
>> injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the
>> attainment of heavenly bliss; let him therefore shun the
>> use of meat."
>
> Yeah, well, maybe you ought to learn just how cruel your religion really.
>
> http://dailym.ai/1tyw9tZ

Sweet mother of ****. Those pictures are shocking beyond words.

Religion is shit. There are plenty of vile irrational belief systems,
but religion is among the worst.