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Hallelujah Diet - Drawing in religious mainstream crowds!
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Teehee..... K, now I'm not religious, but when I went to log in to Yahoo this mourn, on the front page was this video talking about a 72 year old preacher who is drawing crowds in by the hundreds to his seminars. They don't really come to see him Preaching about God, per say, but to see him talk about Vegetarianism! Like wow eh!.... He says people should all go back to the way that God directed them to eat in Genesis. He runs around the room full of energy talking about Vegetariansim. He was diagnosed with having a tumor when he was 42 and changed his diet.
He preaches about "How to Eliminate Sickness". Reverend George Malkmus tells his followers how he healed his own colon cancer and other diseases more than 20 years ago. This is what is attracting people to his seminars. Yeay.... I say go for it! Wake up america!
Of course I am pagan / pantheist, and not into dogmatic religion AT ALL, but to have mainstream Americans start changing their diet as a whole is good ya?
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Re: HALLELUJAH!!
Sat, December 29, 2007 - 10:20 PMMaybe once they kick the meat habit they will come to their senses and kick the god habit. -
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Re: HALLELUJAH!!
Tue, January 15, 2008 - 10:30 PMyup this is wonderful.
There are many religious movements that advocate vegetarianism.
Taiwan is going through a huge movement led by a very charismatic woman, and she advocates vegetarianism too.
The link from "good"ness, morality and "God"liness to animal welfare is not a hard one to make...after all once people understand the concept of dominion and the clear exception to eat meat...made in all faiths "of the book" (islam, chiristianity and judaism)
and once someone makes the connection that all the "rules" and "restrictions" are against animal foods, and all the accepted foods (or "fasting" foods) are vegetarian (vegan) foods...than the link is easy to make.
the one to animal RIGHTS is not as obvious, but it can be made...after all, I made the opposite journey...;-) I "came back" to God through animal rights.
But regardless of our individual beliefs about religion, the fact is that one of the major fronts of the animal rights revolution in the next few years will be in religion. Most major religions are having to "deal with" vegetarianism in varying degrees...and while maybe some of us may not be religious, most people in this world identify themselves as belonging to a religion, so if we can make vegetarianism a religious imperative...HALLELUJAH indeed.
I think for that reason we should all educate ourselves as much as possible about religions, and know how to make the religious link to vegetarianism as much as possible...because after all the animals don't really care about our own opinions on God, they just want to live free of pain and suffering, and if quoting a bit of scripture, or talking about God can save them, I think its worth it.
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