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God's Green World
(Christian Ecology
Group)
From The Vegetarian (May/June 1984)
This is an interesting little booklet containing a collection of
essays giving the thoughts of some Christians on various topical
issues such as Nuclear Weapons, Economics, Power and Authority. Two
chapters will be of particular concern for vegetarians; �Christians
and Animals� by Barry Miles which sets out to show that it is wrong
for Christians to devalue animals and that the scriptures say we must
treat them with compassion. Roger Shorter�s chapter on �Vegetarianism�
touches on the question of �was Jesus a vegetarian?� and though he
gives no final answer, he provides a considerable amount of evidence
from the bible that meat-eating has been over-emphasised by the
incorrect translation of various words for �food�.
Definitely
worth buying if you are interested in this topic, or if you need to
counter the oft-met criticism that �it�s all right to eat meat because
the bible says animals were put on earth solely for the benefit of
man.�
Reproduced with thanks to the Vegetarian Society.
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