The Bible was altered at the Council of Nicea. Many changes were made, many misunderstandings codified. For example, the Greek word for "fish weed" (a dried seaweed) has been mistranslated in stories as "fish." The gospels were originally written in Greek and certainly not by original apostles.
Original Gospels:
10 billion animals are killed each year in the US alone for food. Cattle ranching produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars. - 2006 UN Report warning. Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" failed to mention that consuming meat and dairy is worse for the environment than all emissions from the automotive industry.
1) Factory farms produce massive amounts of dust and other contaminants that pollute the air. A study in Texas found that animal feedlots in the state produce more than 14 million pounds of particulate dust every year and that the dust "contains biologically active organisms such as bacteria, mold, and fungi from the feces and the feed."
2) According to the nonprofit group Greenpeace, all the wild animals and trees in more than 2.9 million acres of rainforest were destroyed in the 2004-2005 crop season in order to grow crops that are used to feed chickens and other animals in factory farms.
3) According to a 2006 UN report, the livestock sector causes more greenhouse gases worldwide than the entire transportation sector.
4) Nitrous oxide is about 300 times more potent as a global warming gas than carbon dioxide. According to the U.N., the meat, egg, and dairy industries account for a staggering 65 percent of worldwide nitrous oxide emissions.
5) According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the run-off from factory farms pollutes waterways more than all other industrial sources combined. The EPA reports that chicken, hog, and cattle excrement have polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states.
6) It takes 16 pounds of grain and 2,500 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat. One average meateater could consume that pound of meat during a meal, while 16 people could have been fed on the grain it takes to produce that pound of meat.
7) The meat industry causes more water pollution in the US than all other industries combined because the animals raised for food produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population -- 86,000 pounds per second. A typical pig factory farm generates a quantity of raw waste equal to that of a city of 12,000 people.
8) Every 2 seconds, a child starves to death somewhere in the world. Countries such as Ethiopia and some Central American countries use their farmland to supply the United States with cheap burgers instead of growing healthful grain foods for their own starving people.
9) The livestock population of the US consumes enough grain and soybeans to feed more than 5 times its human population. 90% of all corn and 80% of all grains and beans grown in the US are used to feed livestock animals.
10) 75 percent of U.S. topsoil has been lost to date, 85 percent of that loss is due to raising livestock for slaughter.
Meat is murder on the environment
A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.
Fortunately there is something we can do -- switch to a plant-based diet, or at the very least reduce our meat and dairy consumption.
Go vegan for human beings, sentient beings, earthlings, and the environment (woodstockFAS.org)
Many leading environmental organizations -- including the National Audubon Society, the WorldWatch Institute, the Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists -- have recognized that raising animals for food damages the environment more than anything else we do.
The meat industry is one of the most destructive ecological industries on the planet.
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"It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause any man to stumble" (Romans 14:21).
"Meats for the belly, and belly for meats; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body" (Corinthians 6:13)
"Jesus said, Blessed is the lion which the man shall eat, and the lion become man; and cursed is the man whom the lion shall eat, and the lion become man" (Gospel of Thomas 7.
VEDAS
Prophecy? The Vedas describe the future appearance of Isha putra, the son (putra) of God (Isha). He was born of an "unmarried woman" named Kumari (Mariam, Mary) Garbha Sambhava. He would visit India at the age of thirteen and go to the Himalayan mountains and do tapas (austerities or penances) to acquire spiritual maturity under the guidance of rishis (seers) and siddha-yogis (ascetics with magical powers) before going back to Palestine to preach to the people there.
This would explain why he was able to perform various miracles (siddhas). It would also explain why there are so many philosophical similarities between early Christianity and Hinduism/Mahayana Buddhism. Jesus was initiated into the Vedic wisdom of India and the Tibetan practices at Hemis Gompa.
He would naturally have based much of his own teachings on Vedic knowledge, much of which has been lost from the Christian fold through the ages. (This happened famously in Constantinople in 441 AD when the Romans decided to get rid of Jesus' teachings on reincarnation, karma, vegetarianism and instead rework the teachings to suit their ends).
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