The Catholic and other Christian religions teach
that animals have
no souls, that the word murder
refers only to violence toward humans
and not animals in slaughterhouses, Anyone who
has ever had a dog or a cat knows that beings who love
are beings with souls.
Jesus was an Essene vegetarian. For the first 325
years Christians were as well, until the nonvegetarian
Constantine became emperor and convened a conference
of bishops, the Council of Nicea, over which he appointed himself as leader.
At that time references to Jesus' vegetarianism were
removed from the Bible.
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