QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. Are you not a little bit radical on the subject of Humanitarianism?
A. To you I may be "a little bit radical" because I oppose all religions (yours inclusive) which make mankind selfish and unfeeling.
Q. If the Bible teaches me to slay and eat have I not a right to eat flesh?
A. Yes, a legal right and your Bible right, but not a moral right.
Q. Do not some people believe it is right to slay and eat lower animals?
A. Yes, from their palate, but all honorable conscientious men see a wrong in taking life.
Q. Has not environment throughout one's life something to do with our eating of flesh?
A. Yes, but come out of it and be in line with a grander, nobler and consistent life. Lay aside your palate and let your conscience rule.
Q. Is not the devil in your philosophy?
A. It seems so to you because it is an exposé of churchianity, proving beyond question the nothingness of the flesh eating religionist's piety.
Q. Suppose man lives in a country where he cannot find vegetarian food?
A. Then he might be justified in eating flesh to preserve his life.
Q. If there is no personal God, who created this world?
A. It is a scientific proposition, and so acknowledged by all thinking men.
Q. Do church people get angry at your philosophy?
A. Yes, sometimes, as when their conscience is seared by a hot iron.
Q. Have not vegetables life?
A. Not life which suffers an evident pain nor do they flee when you threaten to pluck them. Such a question is invariably asked by a carnivorous wiseacre.
Q. Why are all Vegetarians lank, lean and skinny?
A. Because you like the taste of meat and intend to continue eating it.
Q. I know animals have fear and pain, but supposing God did place them on earth for man to slay and eat, what then?
A. "God" is no better then than your "devil."
Q. What were animals created for?
A. What were YOU created for?
Q. What is your conception of God?
A. Nature. Higher self—Conscience.
Q. Do you not kill insects when you drink water; and do you not cripple and trample harmless bugs to death with every step you take?
A. Yes, but involuntarily and not with premeditation and not selfishly to satisfy an inhuman desire or appetite.
Q. Would you "swat" a fly or kill a flea or a snake?
A. If a pest or venomous reptile disturbed my peace and quiet I would be justified in protecting myself.
Q. Is not the survival of the fittest a natural law; consequently being superior I may slay and eat?
A. That's your idea because the "fittest" is yourself—in your own estimation and power; but there's no godliness in such a contention. It is your selfish conclusion that might is right at the expense of sentient life.
Q. Do I not work hard and do I not know that I need meat to sustain me in my manual labor? Do I not know what my system needs.
A. Your system does not require food which must come from a murdered animal! When you contend that you must subsist on flesh, you know not whereof you speak. You are talking to uphold your inhuman appetite.
Q. Where would medical research be were it not for vivisection (torture) and killing animals for experiment in the interest of science?
A. I do not know, but I do know scientific men have not a moral right to torture and kill harmless, helpless animals. Experimenting in surgery, etc., should be done on humans who believe in the advancement of medical science at the expense of life.
Q. Do you object to the infidel eating flesh food?
A. I do not object to anyone eating flesh food—eat whatever you like, but I do point out the wrong of taking life and I emphatically say the religious institution upholding slaughter is a farce and a pharisaical monument to a man-made deity.
Q. Do you actually consider flesh eating the most abominable of sins?
A. Yes, absolutely the most abominable.
Q. What do you think of religious emotionalism and ecstasy?
A. If from the mouth of a carnivorous worshipper it is sham and pretense—a mockery.
Q. Is not your feeling toward animals mawkish sentimentality?
A. There is no such thing as mawkish sentimentality in decrying inhumanity.
Q. Do not the lower animals prey upon one another, and do not the big fish eat the little fish?
A. You profess to be above the inferior animals and you profess to have a soul; you also have a Golden Rule supposed to have been handed down by a kind and merciful Creator.
Q. What shall we do with all the animals if we do not kill them?
A. Is that why you eat flesh?
Q. Do you really think carnivorous churchites are not of God?
A. I don't think it, I know it absolutely, because I know it is wrong to kill and I know they know it and I know they search the Scriptures for "proof" to satisfy palate while Conscience rebels.
Q. What do you think of a religionist who says, "I am living under a new dispensation since Christ came and went, and I now eat anything the Lord sets before me?"
A. If he means he can eat at the expense of sentient life he is not a Godly man; he is not living in harmony with the Golden Rule; he is not living according to the promptings of a higher self, consequently the God spirit is dormant.
The church carnivora's favorite Bible quotations to justify his inhumanity are invariably quoted from a petrified conscience and the region of the palate. Here are several of the passages:
"There is nothing from without a man, entering into him can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man."
"For one believeth that he may eat all things; another, who is weak, eateth herbs. But to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean to him it is unclean."
"Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them, which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
"In a trance I saw a vision; a certain vessel descend as it had been a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. I considered and saw four-footed beasts of the earth and beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air; and a voice said unto me, Arise, Peter, slay and eat."