The Religious Tennets of Vegetarianism

"To have life requires one to have a soul."

You're arguement cannot be true, unless you're premises are proven to be valid and as far as I know nobody has proven the existance of a soul. Correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe that this is called a Fallacy of Composition.

So bugs have souls?
Amoebas?
What about sea urchins?
Trees?

They all "have life" technically speaking.

Anything with a mind and has consciousness would have the life energy inside of it. Which is ones spirt or soul.

Tree's do have life but to say they had a soul would mean the tree would have a mind.

I believe insects and such have life energy inside of them. Some of you may disagree.

i beleive everything has life to some extent, regardless of a conscience. after all a conscience is just chemical signals sent to the brain.


everyone go watch Ghost in the Shell, that will definatly get you thinking about how to define life.

One quote from the Bible ends this one for me:

"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you." Genesis 9:3

I swore I wouldn't post in this thread anymore at all due to the deep-seated ignorance and hate you showed at the begining of the thread, but your last post brought up a Great point.

Genesis 9:3
"Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; even as the green herb I have given you all things.

Genesis 9:4
"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."

That is all, I am done. There is no need for me to post here on this anymore. Thank you for bringing up that biblical vegetarian point.

Your reply actually only expounded further. Flesh, "the flesh", have been used to refer to MAN kind not animal.

It doesn't say Man, it says "Flesh". Both man and animals have flesh, therefore it applies to both. It is very specific in that it says all flesh, and not "the flesh of man". It says "Flesh with the life thereof", both animals and humans have flesh, both animals and humans have life. Simple as that. Both animals and humans have spirit/soul. "Spirit" is just another word for Consciousness, consciousness is an effect of the soul. Though there is no known modern "scientific" proof for the soul, the way to verify the presence of the soul is if there is consciousness (spirit).

Both animals and humans have flesh, and spirit/soul, and therefore life. This verse clearly is an instruction to be vegetarian.

(I may or may not comment here anymore.. I don't know.. that just had to be cleared up.)