Morality of Killing Animals

[Hawkeye]

Kasz216 said:

mesoteto said:
by the tenants of my faith which are the base for my morals i have been put on this earth in the top tier of the animal kingdom and given sway over the flora and fauna of this world (by me i mean mankind)

there for i deem it an immoral act to do anything less

however just b/c I have that standing does not mean I need to abuse that spot, I am a firm believer that (if not always practitioner) we should only take what we need and not always what we want

Actually there is a fairly good arguement that god would perfer it that people be vegetarians.

Lots of early Christian sects were vegetarian by law actually.

There is some evidence that Peter and Matthew were vegetarians.

Even some that jesus himself was.

The most notable one being...

And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food".

I didn't bother to check, but wans't that passage in genesis, before people had any considerable level of knoeldge? Once it became tough to be human, I thought it was acceptable for people to eat animals. The lion and the lamb got along in Eden ect, so people and animals started eating each other after the fall. Also, Jesus gives people fish to eat, which certainly is not a plant.