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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (11406)	3/1/2002 8:08:08 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

That is an interesting link to JesusVeg.com ... jesusveg.com while so caught up in their own salvation and lives after death it would seem a very important aspect of how one conducts oneself on earth towards his fellow creatures.... One would think God would have instructed his "chosen" better in regards to animal care and less cruelty with them . Also indiscriminate sheep & goat herding turned the middle eastern North Africa into a desert waste~land 2000yrs ago. But the first Law of God always springs to mind : Thou shalt Not Kill .... Clearly there is something I must be missing in it's translation into deeds and compassion ? One would think that to be a true Christian , Moslem or Jew then it would follow a natural leaning towards being slightly vegetarian ?<G> Hard to imagine Adam and Eve standing by their BBQ after a fresh kill of one of the Garden's peaceful grazing lambs or other semi-sentient creatures. It would not seem so .... But the prophets tell us that the peaceable kingdom will be nonviolent and vegetarian; even the lion will lie down with the lamb (e.g., Isaiah 11). Jesus is the Prince of Peace, who ushers in this new age of nonviolence. When Christians pray, "Your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven," the one prayer given to us by Jesus, this obligates us to change our lives, to make choices that are as merciful and loving as possible. There will be no factory farms and slaughterhouses in heaven. God created every animal with the capacity for pain and suffering. But on today's factory farms, animals are dehorned, debeaked, and castrated without anesthesia. To maximize profits, they are crowded together in the least space possible, and are genetically bred, so that most suffer lameness, crippling leg deformities, or bone breaks, because their legs can't keep up with their scientifically enhanced bodies. Finally, they are trucked without food or water, through all weather extremes, to a frightening and hellish death. Interesting to note , that the lines of the prayer of: Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven "** ...was the prayer to Azhura Mazda , the God of Light & Good of the Zoroastrian Religion, one of the world's first great montheistic Religions from the prophet Zarathustra of Persia . The Jews were a very noisy bunch though & did like drowning out anyone else's beliefs they came across. And Jesus I suppose, or his "chronicler's " plagiarized that one too ? ;-)

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (11406)	3/6/2002 6:09:17 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

New York Post FUR FLIES OVER CINDY'S CATWALK AFTER eight long years of being touted as a spokesmodel for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Cindy Crawford has finally had enough of the guerrilla group. For her catwalk comeback on Monday, the mother of two modeled for designer Roberto Cavalli wearing a fur coat - causing shock and dismay in the PETA camp. In 1994, Crawford appeared with fellow supermodels Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Elle Macpherson, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss in PETA advertisements swearing they would "rather go naked than wear fur." In the print ads, Crawford was wearing only a faux fur hat. "The era of supermodels is over, a thing of the past," Lisa Lange, a PETA rep, slammed. "Cindy seemed very anti-fur, and in my heart I find it hard to believe she's turned her back on the animals." But Crawford's rep, Annett Wolf, said the dark-haired stunner never agreed to be in the 1994 ads and never believed in their credo. "It's time to set this straight," Wolf charged. "A long time ago, Cindy did a favor for Todd Oldham. Todd had designed a fake fur hat, and she modeled it." But, Wolf added, the photo was re-used by PETA in a magazine ad. The public was led to believe Cindy worked with the group and believed in its animals-first philosophy, Wolf said, but "Cindy has never been associated with PETA." "This is not fair to Cindy," Wolf added. "[PETA] is not her cause. When she is asked to model something - she does. That is her job. She has been really nice about the PETA ad, but it's just not her thing." Still PETA reps insist Crawford is taking a step backward. "Designing with fur is a thing of the past. Even P. Diddy's collection this year was fur-free," Lange said. "If the fur she wore was real, it is very sad for us and the animals. Those minks were killed by either having their necks broken or by being electrocuted." This is not the first time a model has gotten in trouble with PETA for wearing fur down the catwalk. In 1997, Campbell walked in a Fendi show clad in fur and PETA promptly fired her as a spokeswoman. "We fired Naomi Campbell as a PETA spokesperson because she so blatantly reversed her position. Naomi seemed cash-strapped and crazy when she started modeling fur again," Lange charged. Campbell, for her part, insisted that she wore fur in the Fendi show because she, too, was doing her job. She later claimed the group "took advantage" of her.