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Originally Posted by Seanette
To our vegan poster, your choice of rhetoric (calling killing animals for food, which is authorized by the Lord, "murder" and using deliberately emotionally charged language such as "corpses") IS going to antagonize a lot of people, since that rhetoric makes you sound like you're passing a rather mean-spirited moral judgment on them, and willfully ignoring Scripture you don't like (the D&C 49 citation) doesn't help.
To me, you really do sound a bit self-righteous on the subject, and that does create some antagonism. (I'd say that even if I agreed with your basic position, although I don't, being an omnivore.)
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Like I said before, I just wanted to vent about that particular Sunday. I'm the one who was being attacked; so, naturally, I got defensive. I would agree with everything you said if I was the one starting to argue. I do use emotionally charged words, but only after being called "an apostate" or "ungrateful of God's creatures". Usually, people get all worked up seconds after learning that I'm vegan.They start quoting that scripture without understanding the meaning of it. That scripture is not against vegetarianism, but against requiring people to be vegetarians as the Shakers did. So, I actually love that scripture just as the one after it that talks about "no need"
