Eating meat becomes tied up in religious teachings

by | Jul 23, 2019 | 5 Ag Stories, News

Today?s program discusses whether you should eat meat. There are two sides to this debate, and has now spread to messages from churches. Not fringe religions, but mainstream Protestant religions.

The observations of a meat eating theologian, who explains the inclusion of eating meat in religious teachings and, he says, abandoning the real text of The Bible.

A new book, “What Would Jesus Really Eat? The Biblical Case for Eating Meat,” looks at what The Bible has to say about using and eating animals from several different perspectives. The book, co-authored by Palm Beach Atlantic University professor and pastor Wes Jamison, PhD, tackles topics including the challenges to Christian meat-eating, human exceptionalism and humanity’s dominion over other living creatures.

In a recent interview with Ron Hays, from the Radio Oklahoma Network, Jamison explained that animal rights activists have attempted to impose their agenda on Christians, targeting their faith and presenting the consumption of meat as immoral in the Biblical sense.

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