Should Christians Hunt?

[AJ]

I believe that hunting is just fine... I agree that you should eat what you kill and not hunt for sport. I am definately a meat eater and love a good venison sausage link.

Of course our deer in Texas are pretty small, compared to other places in the US.... They are still very tasty though!

 

[Pwozen]

It says in the bible that god gave us every animal on earth to eat and kill

 

[mycatspice]

sure! as long as they are not wasteful!

 

[boerbok]

Hi All some thoughts about hunting.

Genisis 3:21 God made tunics of skin. Did God kill these animals so he could get the skin or not? To me he must have

Genisis 9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.
Again God gives Noah permission to hunt the animals.

Genisis 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the lord.

Lev 17:13 (God does not condemn hunting) He gives instruction on how to deal with the animal when hunted.

Prov 12:27 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting.

Luke 10:8 says: "Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you," This means that Jesus must have eaten meat and some of that must have been venision as well.

So there are grounds for hunting in the word. The question now is do we have to hunt. Well with all the shops and butchers we dont'.

But most animals these days are produced quickly and with drugs for deworming, anti biotics to keep the animal healthy. Licks to enhance food digestion ,vitamin supplements to keep the animal in top form.

The question now is do you want to eat this meat or go and hunt an animal that has lived in the wild and free of all these drugs.

My answer is yes .I would rather hunt the animal see where it lived make sure the meat is good and does not get mishandled.

Better than eating something which lived in a pen was fattened up and processed by people you dont know and who possably do not care as much about what you are going to eat as you would.

Venison also has a lot lower cholestrol. The Lord says we must take care of our bodies.We must practise stewardship over the earth.

This means Eat healthy and make sure there are animals for tomorrow to Hunt.

I dont think God meant stewardship to mean feedlots for mass scale meat production. Battrey chickens. Large areas of land denuded of vegitation to produce soya beans and vegitables for the non meat eaters. All must be in balance.

Food for thought?

 

[JVD]

Wow, you resurrected an old thread.

Hunting is fine. I do think you should eat what you kill.

I do respect the vegetarians that don't eat meat and do not like hunting. I don't have neary as much sympathy for the anti-hunters that are also meat eaters.

The 16 year old girl that hunts had good points...even for the vegetarians. If you are against taking another life, where do you draw the line. Somewhere between mosquitos and deer I would imagine. What is it that makes it OK to kill a mosquito and not a deer?

If you are so pacifistic that you would not kill a mosquito, I assume you would actually kill and even eat (horrors), a carrot. A carrot is alive, sometimes it is eaten while it is still alive. What makes an animals life more valuable then a plants?

Then there are other forms of life as well. Microscopic animal life for example.

You see, the line must be drawn somewhere. I think that it is best drawn between humans and all other forms of life. Humans have a responsibility to manage and respect life, but that includes the ability to take life as well.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

I'm a Christian and I don't hunt. Not by choice of course, as I'm here in Hawaii. If I was back home, I would enjoy humping through the woods, enjoying being outdoors with the wonderful world that God created. Then I would really call it a good day to knock down a 10pt. Just my opinion though.

 

[NothingButTheBlood]

Have you read the original post?
I directly said that my post had nothing to do with not eating meat and was specificcly about the question of christians hunting and killing gods creation

So it's ok for Christians to eat meat someone else has killed but not something they killed themselves? Whether you buy dead cow or kill a deer your eating meat. Deer and most wild game is pretty healthy for you and as long as the animal doesn't go to waste then I see no problem with it.

 

[12volt_man]

For those of you who are against hunting, what would you suggest that those of us here on the Eastern Shore do about the deer population?

In some herds, the deer are starving and are inbreeding, passing diseases around amongst themselves.

There is a joke around here that says you can always tell who the locals are because they've only got one headlight on their car (they knocked the other one out when they hit the deer).

How do you believe we should control the deer population?

 

[Yusuf Evans]

For those of you who are against hunting, what would you suggest that those of us here on the Eastern Shore do about the deer population?

In some herds, the deer are starving and are inbreeding, passing diseases around amongst themselves.

There is a joke around here that says you can always tell who the locals are because they've only got one headlight on their car (they knocked the other one out when they hit the deer).

How do you believe we should control the deer population?

I think their solution is going to be animal control.

 

[wanderingone]

So it's ok for Christians to eat meat someone else has killed but not something they killed themselves? Whether you buy dead cow or kill a deer your eating meat. Deer and most wild game is pretty healthy for you and as long as the animal doesn't go to waste then I see no problem with it.

Personally I would think hunting for food to be more ethical than buying meat that comes from raised for food cattle so I'm with you on that.

I'm a vegetarian for a variety of reasons, more health and a world view that a meat based diet is not a good use of resources than animal rights however the animal rights part of me thinks hunting is the more humane of the two versions of getting meat...

I'm not comfortable with sport hunting.. especially when people have no use for the animal after they've killed it other than displaying body parts on their walls but I really can't make an argument against it other than my personal distaste for it.

 

[NothingButTheBlood]

Personally I would think hunting for food to be more ethical than buying meat that comes from raised for food cattle so I'm with you on that.

I'm a vegetarian for a variety of reasons, more health and a world view that a meat based diet is not a good use of resources than animal rights however the animal rights part of me thinks hunting is the more humane of the two versions of getting meat...

I'm not comfortable with sport hunting.. especially when people have no use for the animal after they've killed it other than displaying body parts on their walls but I really can't make an argument against it other than my personal distaste for it.

I personally don't care for sport hunting either. Here in WV we have a program where sport hunters can donate the animal to charity. They distrubute the meat to families. Makes it a little easier to take.

 

[ccastellow]

I used to hunt but have since quit, i have thought long and hard on this issue.
When you kill something no matter what it is be it a human or a fruit fly you are TAKING AWAY all it HAS and all that it will EVER have...

We as christians have a choice, the majority of us do not need to hunt for food but hunt for the pleasure of the sport, I have heard many hunters say in defense say " I like being outdoors " OK! yet you need to hunt? a.k.a. KILL, why not hike, camp, or better yet outdoor/wildlife photography.

I also hear a number of Hunters say that it is a means of continuing on a tradition... to which i say, Slave traders held certain parts of their business as "traditions" yet they were WRONG...

The majority of us dont need to hunt for our food there is enough violence and death and killings committed on a daily basis in the worlds slaughterhouses.,,,,,,

I wil leave you with a few quotes to think about:

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us
is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
-- T. Casey Brenna


We are all God's creatures--that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we
continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not
consistent.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer


We pray on Sundays that we may have light
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,
And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
-- George Bernard Shaw

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal. When
he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he
eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his
appetite. And to act so is immoral.
-- Leo Tolstoy


And when I think of the suffering of the creatures in our factory farms,
laboratories, puppy mills, or of any animal neglected or mistreated by man, for me there is no more powerful question than to ask: "What would the Good Shepherd
think of this?"
-- Matthew Scully

God gave us dominion over the animals of this world. Not until recently have we had supermarkets to mass produce our food sources. This is where I have a problem with those against hunting. They will sit back and eat a burger from some cow that had a bolt stuck through its head and give us a bad rap. Hunting animals for food has been done since the beginning of time. I guess if you don't like it join PETA and their terrorists buddies to try and stop us. However, I will continue to hunt and be proud that I am continuing what my ancestors had to do to survive. Besides I find deer meat to be very good.

 

[tgg]

I used to hunt but have since quit, i have thought long and hard on this issue.
When you kill something no matter what it is be it a human or a fruit fly you are TAKING AWAY all it HAS and all that it will EVER have...

We as christians have a choice, the majority of us do not need to hunt for food but hunt for the pleasure of the sport, I have heard many hunters say in defense say " I like being outdoors " OK! yet you need to hunt? a.k.a. KILL, why not hike, camp, or better yet outdoor/wildlife photography.

I also hear a number of Hunters say that it is a means of continuing on a tradition... to which i say, Slave traders held certain parts of their business as "traditions" yet they were WRONG...

The majority of us dont need to hunt for our food there is enough violence and death and killings committed on a daily basis in the worlds slaughterhouses.,,,,,,

I wil leave you with a few quotes to think about:

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us
is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
-- T. Casey Brenna


We are all God's creatures--that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we
continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not
consistent.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer


We pray on Sundays that we may have light
To guide our footsteps on the path we tread;
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight,
And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
-- George Bernard Shaw

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man, we call him a vandal. When
he wantonly destroys one of the works of God, we call him a sportsman.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he
eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his
appetite. And to act so is immoral.
-- Leo Tolstoy


And when I think of the suffering of the creatures in our factory farms,
laboratories, puppy mills, or of any animal neglected or mistreated by man, for me there is no more powerful question than to ask: "What would the Good Shepherd
think of this?"
-- Matthew Scully

Jesus wanted mercy, not animals sacrificed to him.

Meat eating is directly related to all the atrocities on this planet: war, wife bashing, child abuse, environmental abuse, destruction of the ozone layer and rainforests.

Make meat-eating illegal for all humans, and we might see a better race emerge.



tgg

 

[12volt_man]

Jesus wanted mercy, not animals sacrificed to him.

So then why does the Bible tell us that God ordered animal sacrifices?

Meat eating is directly related to all the atrocities on this planet: war, wife bashing, child abuse, environmental abuse, destruction of the ozone layer and rainforests.

LOL...

 

[Skydancing]

I don't think one should hunt for sport, only for food. Fox hunting has been banned in the UK, and I expect other forms of hunting might be banned too.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

Jesus wanted mercy, not animals sacrificed to him.

Meat eating is directly related to all the atrocities on this planet: war, wife bashing, child abuse, environmental abuse, destruction of the ozone layer and rainforests.

Make meat-eating illegal for all humans, and we might see a better race emerge.



tgg

I'm sorry, but do you have factual information for this? Even Jesus ate meat when he walked the earth, so I'm just wondering what the big deal is?

 

[Skydancing]

It is fine to eat meat, but not to hunt animals for the joy of killing them, as in fox hunting, you don't eat the fox!

 

[Yusuf Evans]

I don't think one should hunt for sport, only for food. Fox hunting has been banned in the UK, and I expect other forms of hunting might be banned too.

Well, I hunt for sport, and I can say that none of the animal gets wasted.

 

[Skydancing]

On this topic as with many others we must agree to disagree!

 

[Beastt]

Well, I hunt for sport, and I can say that none of the animal gets wasted.

I guess that works for those who see the animal as an object and nothing more. From another point of view, the sentience and enjoyment of life the animal would have otherwise had is wasted.

Entrail soup, anyone?