So if you may have been a sheep or a cow in a previous life, it is conceivable that you may have been a tiger as well. So the tiger is part of the family too, correct? So how come when you are a tiger it is okay to eat your brothers and sisters (sheep and cows),but not when you are a human? Wouldn't it be the same thing? And if not, why not?
Tigers, lions, wolves, dogs, cats and other carnivorous animals are supposed to eat meat. That is their prescribed food. Their bodies are designed to digest meat (for example, they have pointed teeth for ripping flesh, their intestinal tract is shorter than that of herbivores to allow rapidly decaying meat to pass out quickly, and their stomachs have stronger acids in order to break down meat). When humans are compared to both herbivorous and carnivorous animals, it is shown that humans are much closer to the herbivores than the carnivores.
Oh, I don't doubt it's a personal problem as well.. but to have minimal experience with people of minority religions and believe the world is out to get you for your religion doesn't help. This lady actually said that all non-Christians had it really easy in society, which I supposed made her feel attacking me was okay. (She lumped all non-Christians into the same 'secular' mold, which bound us together and allowed us to have a conspiracy against her kind.) So she was nuts, yeah, but I've actually seen this pattern before. I don't know if it's just Christians, but it's more ironic when it's them.
Most non-Christians (except the Muslims) aren't against Christianity because they worship Jesus Christ or the Trinity, they view Christianity negatively because of Christian intolerance of other religious views and lifestyles such as homosexuality. Hindus don't mind if you worship Jesus (in fact some Hindus may well pray to Jesus and Mary as incarnations of God). However, many Hindus are against Christianity for their strong proselytizing and missionary work, which destroys families in many cases when one member of the family converts to Christianity. Sita Ram Goel, author of
Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression, recounts in another of his books,
How I Became a Hindu, how he met a Christian man in a mission in India. This man would live in the mission until the day he died, since his family had rejected him. He had converted to Christianity, and a while afterwards, he ate beef as he was told that his conversion was not complete until he did it. It was this act that caused his wife to leave him. This is the problem that many Hindus have with Christianity.
Non-Christians do not have it "easy" in society. It is hard here in Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country with a sizeable Chinese minority, to find vegetarian food. There are vegetarian restaurants and stalls, but not everywhere has them and it can be hard to find vegetarian food. Soap, shaving foam and other products we use daily all contain animal fat and getting special vegetarian alternatives can be difficult. I'm just glad that there are enough.
So non-Christians don't have it easier than Christians. And it's not the Christians' faith in God that people are "persecuting", it's their rigid intolerance of things like other religions, homosexuality etc.
