Yeshua hated animal sacrifices and the killing of innocent loving animals!!!!

God said,
See, I have given you every
plant yielding seed that is upon
the face of all the earth,
and every tree with seed in its fruit;
you shall have them for food.

And to every beast of the earth,
and to every bird of the air,
and to everything that
creeps on the earth,
everything that has
the breath of life,
I have given
every green plant
for food. 

And it was so.
God saw everything
that he had made,
and indeed, it was very good.”

Genesis 1:29-31

Foreword

The texts of the Bible emerged over the course of centuries. People wrote down what was passed on to them and what corresponded to their own ideas, which often were not compatible with God. This was true, for example, of the bloodthirsty ripping apart of animal carcasses that Moses supposedly had held before the sacrificial altars. The same holds true for the many “instructions of God” for child murder, robbing and killing and even genocide in the Old Testament, so that even the Nazis were able to easily cite the Bible to justify their deeds as did Luther for his maxims – and as a Yugoslavian warmonger did a few years ago.

The New Testament is also the work of humans, a collection of texts, the compilation of which as the “Holy Scripture” took place by church decree. Much of what would have been just as “holy” was not included. Much of what was taught by Jesus of Nazareth remained hidden in the apocryphal scriptures and was not included in the collection of scripts we get placed before us today as the Gospel.
About 1600 years ago, Hieronymus was commissioned by the pope to do the first extensive Bible translation into Latin and came under great pressure from political forces and the emerging church power. Topics such as reincarnation, the law of sowing and reaping and the teachings of the Nazarene about people treating animals peaceably did not find a place in the church Bible. However, the fact that Hieronymus knew about Jesus’ love for animals is clearly substantiated by the quote below.
Even though much was concealed in the official Bible, the truth nevertheless comes to light. Our task with this booklet is to contribute to this.
With this collection of citations, we want to make the connection with Original Christianity and rehabilitate Jesus as a friend of animals. Who will help to spread this truth?

“THE CONSUMPTION OF
ANIMAL FLESH
WAS UNKNOWN UP UNTIL
THE GREAT FLOOD.
BUT SINCE THE GREAT FLOOD,
WE HAVE HAD THE FIBERS
AND THE STINKING FLUIDS
OF ANIMAL FLESH
STUFFED INTO OUR MOUTHS...

JESUS, THE CHRIST,
WHO APPEARED WHEN
THE TIME WAS FULFILLED,
AGAIN JOINED THE END
TO THE BEGINNING,
SO THAT WE ARE NOW
NO LONGER ALLOWED
TO EAT ANIMAL FLESH.”

Hieronymus (331-420)
(Adversus Jovinanum 1:30)

Prophetic Words Against
Biblical Sacrifices of Animals
and Against Eating Meat
 

For whole pages Bible readers of Moses are led to believe that God wanted animals to be tortured and killed for Him. These texts were cleverly manipulated, so that the faithful believe that God is a perverse, brutal, unloving and wrathful being, which has joy in the brutal and senseless carnage of animals. The one who believes this is the word of God, as the great institutions would have one believe, has fallen for the darkening of the truth. However, the one who explores the prophets can still find, even in the Bible, many a true word of God, which apparently slipped by the “correctors” and falsifiers of the scriptures.

Hosea
“Though they offer choice sacrifices, though they eat flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins ...”
Hosea 8:13

Isaiah
“Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being; whoever sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering, like one who offers swine’s blood; whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. They have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight.” 
Isaiah 66:3

Amos
“I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.”
Amos 5:21-24

Jeremiah
“Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.”
Jeremiah 6:20

Isaiah
“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? Says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand?”
Isaiah 1:11-12

Micah
“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
Micah 6:6-8

Isaiah
“When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed ...”
Isaiah 1:15-17

Hosea
“For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”
Hosea 6:6

Jeremiah
“For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Jeremiah 7:22

“If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all that is in it is mine. Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”
Psalm 50:12-13

“Do not be among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat.”
Proverbs 23:20
 

Jesus of Nazareth
Spoke Against Animal Sacrifices

“I came to end the animal sacrifices, and if you do not stop making sacrifices, the wrath of God (the law of cause and effect) will not leave you alone.”
Jesus, cited from Epiphanius, Panarion 3:16

“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”
Mt. 9:13

“Is it not written: My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nation? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
Jesus in Mk. 11:17

The Apostles
Were Vegetarians

In order to know what Jesus taught concerning love for animals and having a meatless diet, it is useful to know how his apostles and disciples lived. Ancient texts, which, typically enough, were not included in the canons of the Bible state the following:

Peter
“I live on bread and olives, to which I only seldom add a vegetable.”
Clementine Homilies XII, 6; rec. VII, 6

Paul
“Jesus instructed me to eat no meat and drink no wine, but only bread, water and fruit, so that I be found pure when he wants to talk with me.”
Toledoth Jeschu, Krauss Edition,
Berlin 1902, p. 113, Paul

Matthew
“Matthew lived on seed, the fruit of trees and vegetables without meat.”
Clemens von Alexandria,
Paidagogos II, 1:16

John
“John never ate meat.”
Church historian Hegesipp according to Eusebius,
History of the Church II 2:3

Jacob
“Jacob, the brother of the Lord, lived on seeds and plants and touched neither meat nor wine.”
Epistulae ad Faustum XXII, 3

In old scriptures, there are also indications that other apostles and disciples nourished themselves as vegetarians or vegans.

The Church Fathers
Also Warned Against Eating Meat

The church fathers or church writers still knew the sources and earliest handwritten texts and quoted from them. At that time many of them lived as vegetarians or vegans and abstained from alcohol, or recommended this. From this one we gain knowledge about the eating habits of the first Christians.

John Chrysostomus
About a group of exemplary Christians
354-407
“No streams of blood flowed at their place; no flesh was slaughtered and cut to pieces ... One does not smell there the awful vapor of meals of meat ... one hears no racket and terrible noise. They eat only bread, which they earn through their work, and water that a pure spring offers them. When they want a lavish meal, then indulgence consists of fruits, and they find thereby higher enjoyment than at the royal tables.”
Homil. 69

Clemens of Alexandria
“For within a moderate simplicity is there not a diversity of healthy foods: vegetables, roots, olives, herbs, milk, cheese, fruit and many kinds of dried foods? – Among the foods one should favor those that can be directly eaten without the use of fire, for they are always ready for us and are the simplest. – Accordingly, the apostle Matthew lived from seeds, hard-shelled fruits and vegetables, and ate no meat. And John, who practiced modesty to the utmost degree ate the buds of leaves and wild honey. – I think that the bloody sacrifices were invented solely by those people who sought an excuse for eating meat, which they also could have had without such idolatry.”
Clemens of Alexandria, Paidagogos II

Quintus Septimus Tertullianus
ca. 160-221
Tertullianus appeared several times for the defense of the Christians when they were accused of making human sacrifices. “How shall I describe it, that you believe we are thirsty for human blood, for you do know that we loathe the blood of animals.”
Apol. Chap. 9; quoted from Robert Springer, p. 292

Gregory of Nazianz
Church father from Kappadozien
“But the seed of a good house father is the good wheat, from which he bakes bread ... The indulgence in meat dishes is a disgraceful wrong and I desire that you may strive to offer your soul nourishment that lasts eternally."
Robert Springer 1884

Hieronymus
“It is better that you eat no meat and drink no wine. For drinking wine started with eating meat, after the great flood.”

“Innocent foods are foods acquired without letting blood.”

“Consuming meat, drinking wine and overfilling the stomach are the cradles of greed.”
Hieronymus, Adversus Jovinanum 1:30

Aurelius Augustinus
354-430
Church father and greatest Latin church teacher of antiquity, Augustinius also lived solely from plant foods. He attributed the ruinous passions of man to the eating of meat. In one of his works, he quoted Paul (Rom. 14:21), where Paul recommended that one eat no meat and drink no wine.
De vera Religione II, 161, 168

Basilius the Great
“The body that is burdened with meat foods is plagued by illnesses; a moderate style of life makes it healthier and stronger and cuts off the root of evil. The vapors of meat foods darken the light of the spirit. It is hard for one to love virtue when one is gladdened by meat dishes and festive meals.”
Basilius the Great, Enkarpa, 1884

“Meat is a contradiction to food and it belongs to the world of the past.”
Clementine Homilies III, 45

“The Christians abstained from every kind of meat.”
Plinius in a letter to Trajan, Ep. Lib. X. 96

“In the earthly paradise,
there was no wine,
no one sacrificed animals
and no one ate meat.”

“As long as one lives frugally
the luck of the house
will increase;
the animals will be safe;
no blood will be shed,
and no animal will be killed.
The cook’s knife will be useless;
the table will only be set with fruits
which nature offers to us,
and one will be
satisfied with that.”

From the epistles of Basilius the Great
(329-379)
cited from Carl Anders Skriver,
“The Forgotten Beginnings of Creation
and Christianity” p. 161



It Was Solely the Sins of Mankind
That Made Animals “Evil”!

“Wild animals get their name from their wild nature, not because they were created evil from the very beginning ...; instead, the sins of man made them bad. For since man was diverted from the path, they also followed him ...
If now man again raises himself to an existence fitting to his nature and no longer does evil, they, too, will return to their original gentle nature.”
Theophilus of Antioch
2nd half of the 2nd Century



Creation waits
for man to reveal himself as the son of God

“We know that the whole of creation has been groaning in labor pains until now. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God. For ... creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.”
Paul in Rom. 8:22,19,21

The End
of Inner Christianity

Emperor Constantine I
Emperor Constantine I (285-337) gave preferential treatment to the Christian Church, gave it freedom of religion and in the year 324 finally made it de facto a state religion. For this, the church even made him a saint. However, in obsession with power, despotism and cruelty, Constantine lagged behind his predecessors in nothing. He waged many wars. Under threat of torture, the Early Christians who wanted to remain true to their pacifist ideals were now forced to go to war for the emperor. It was said that under the orders of Emperor Constantine, melted lead was poured down the throats of those who did not want to eat meat.

Thus, original Christianity was nearly dissolved. “Christians were now officially forced into military duty, into eating animals and drinking alcohol.”
At the Council of Nicösia (325) Constantine forced through his ideas of Christianity.

Now the Gospel also had to be tailored to fit the spirit of the times then. So-called “correctors” were put to work for this. Deliberate falsifications are said to have been carried out particularly in the time following the Council of Nicösia. How much was also changed by Paul is unknown and can only be conjectured, based on several citations that have been passed down.



The Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages the persecution of Christians who lived as vegetarians and vegans continued.
Over whole centuries the Church persecuted Early Christians who were vegetarians and found no pleasure in the frills and furbelows of a pagan state church. For the most part they were stigmatized, slandered, persecuted and murdered as heretics and sectarians.
The philosophic basis for persecution during the Middle Ages was made by the church teacher, Thomas of Aquinas. According to his teaching, neither animals nor women have a soul. Free Christians “who at the time of the Inquisition refused to kill animals were forced to either publicly slaughter an animal or be hanged as a heretic. In 1051 several so-called heretics were condemned to death because they refused to kill and eat chickens.”
“During the Middle Ages there were many groups that wanted to turn back to an Early Christian way of living.” For example, the Bogumiles or the Cathars and the Albigensers. They lived a vegetarian or vegan life. The vowed “to kill no animal, to eat no meat and to live only from fruit.” (Walter Nigg) All of them were cruelly exterminated by the Church.
Even today, many people still carry these church prejudices deep in their subconscious, even though they think they are progressive thinkers. Just to hear the word “sect” is enough to awaken ancient prejudices in them, and in most cases, without a reason.

* Carsten Strehlow, Vegetarianism/Veganism as
a Component of Christianity, p. 55


Today

“Today’s church Christendom, particularly Catholicism, has practically nothing to do with the actual Early Christianity, with Nazarenism, and thus with the true teachings of Jesus. Instead, it is primarily a self-fabricated teaching that bases itself almost exclusively on exercising and maintaining power. Alone through the Inquisition, the burning of witches, the Crusades, the hatred of Jews and women, as well as cooperation with the National Socialists in the so-called 3rd Reich, the history of the Catholic Church is red with blood. Entire seas could be filled with this blood.

The highest church holidays – Christmas and Easter – are also the greatest slaughter feasts of the year!”

* Carsten Strehlow, Vegetarianism/Veganism as
a Component of Christianity, p. 58






“Verily,
I say to you,
I Am come
into the world,
in order to put
an end to all
blood offerings
and to the eating
of the flesh of animals
and birds that are
slain by men.”

“This Is My Word”
Chap. 75:9, p. 788

The Gospel
of the Perfect Life

How much those contemptuous of animals in antiquity and during the Middle Ages disregarded the teachings of the Nazarene can be drawn from the apocryphal scripture “The Gospel of Perfect Life.”
In the foreword to the first edition in English (1902) of “The Gospel of Perfect Life” (also known as “The Gospel of the Holy Twelve” or “The Gospel of Jesus) G. J. R. Ouseley writes: “This original gospel of Christian inspiration is one of the oldest and most complete early Christian fragments and is preserved in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet, where it was hidden by members of the Essene community, in order to protect it from the hands of falsifiers.”
On the following pages, we have chosen several chapters on the topic ”The love of Jesus for animals.”

The Gospel of the Perfect Life
Humata Verlag, Bad Homburg
And “The Gospel of Jesus,” Verlag DAS WORT,
Rottweil 1968
(These texts are taken from “This Is My Word” Verlag DAS WORT)


Woe to the Hunters!

6. As Jesus went with some of His disciples, He met a man who trained dogs to hunt other animals. And He said to the man, “Why do you do this?” And the man answered, “Because I live from this. What sort of use have these animals? These animals are weak, but the dogs are strong.” And Jesus said to him, “You lack wisdom and love. Behold, every creature that God has created has its meaning and purpose. And who can say what good there is in it or what use it is to you or to mankind?
7. And for your living, behold the fields, how they grow and are fertile, and the fruit-bearing trees and the herbs. What more do you want than what the honest work of your hands will give you? Woe to the strong who misuse their strength. Woe to the crafty who hurt the creatures of God! Woe to the hunters! For they themselves shall be hunted.”
8. And the man was very astonished and stopped training the dogs to hunt; and he taught them to save life, not to destroy it. And he embraced the teachings of Jesus and became His disciple. (Chap. 14)


Jesus
Frees the Animals

1. And it happened one day, after Jesus had finished His speaking, that, in a place near Tiberias where there are seven wells, a young man brought Him live rabbits and doves, that He might consume them with His disciples.
2. And Jesus looked at the young man lovingly and said to him, “You have a good heart and God will enlighten you; but do you not know that in the beginning God gave man the fruits of the earth for food and by this did not make him lower than the apes, or the oxen, or the horse or the sheep, that he may kill his fellow creatures and consume their flesh and blood?
3. You believe that Moses rightfully commanded such creatures to be offered in sacrifice and consumed and so you do this in the temple; but see, One greater than Moses is here and He comes to abolish the blood sacrifices of the law and the orgies and to restore the pure offering and the bloodless sacrifice as it was in the beginning, namely, the grains and the fruits of the earth.
5. Therefore, let the creatures go free, that they may rejoice in God and bring no guilt to man.” And the young man set them free and Jesus tore apart their cages and their fetters.
6. But see, they were afraid to be taken captive once more and did not want to leave Him. But He spoke to them and sent them away and they obeyed His words and departed full of joy. (Chap. 28)



Freeing the Birds

7. And on a certain day, the boy Jesus came to a place where a snare was set for birds and there were some boys there. And Jesus said to them, “Who has set this snare for the innocent creatures of God? Behold, they will likewise be caught in a snare.” And He beheld twelve sparrows that appeared to be dead.
8. And He moved His hands over them and said to them, “Fly away and, as long as you live, remember Me.” And they rose and flew away with cries. The Jews who saw this were very astonished and told it to the priests. (Chap. 6)



Jesus Heals a Horse

1. And it came to pass that the Lord departed from the city and went into the mountains with His disciples. And they came to a mountain with very steep paths. There they met a man with a beast of burden.
2. But the horse had collapsed, for it was overladen. The man struck it till the blood flowed. And Jesus went to him saying, “You son of cruelty, why do you strike your animal? Do you not see that it is much too weak for its burden and do you not know that it suffers?”
3. But the man retorted, “What have You to do therewith? I may strike my animal as much as it pleases me, for it belongs to me; and I bought it with a goodly sum of money. Ask those who are with You, for they are from my neighborhood and know thereof.”
4. And some of the disciples answered, saying, “Yes, Lord, it is as he said, we were there when he bought the horse.” And the Lord rejoined, “Do you not see then how it is bleeding, and do you not hear how it wails and laments?” But they answered saying, “No, Lord, we do not hear that it wails or laments.”
5. And the Lord became sad and said, “Woe to you; because of the dullness of your heart, you do not hear how it laments and cries to its heavenly Creator for pity; but thrice woe to the one against whom it cries and wails in its torment!”
6. And He went forward and touched the horse, and the animal stood up, and its wounds were healed. But He said to the man, “Go on your way now and henceforth strike it no more, if you, too, hope to find mercy.”
7. And seeing the people come to Him, Jesus said to His disciples, “Because of the sick, I Am sick; because of the hungry, I go hungry; because of the thirsty, I suffer thirst.”
8. And He also said, “I have come to put an end to the sacrifices and feasts of blood. If you do not cease to offer and consume the flesh and blood of animals, the wrath of God will not cease to come upon you, just as it came upon your ancestors in the wilderness, who indulged in the consumption of flesh and were filled with rottenness and consumed by pestilence. (Chap. 21)

Jesus Helps a Camel

12. Jesus went to Jerusalem and came upon a camel with a heavy burden of wood. The camel could not haul its load up the hill and the driver beat it and treated it cruelly, but could not get the animal to move.
13. And as Jesus saw it, He said to him, “Why do you beat your brother?” And the man retorted, “I did not know that it is my brother. Is it not a beast of burden, made to serve me?”
14. And Jesus said, “Has not the same God created this animal and your children who serve you from the same material and have you not both received the same breath from God?”
15. And the man was very astonished by this talk. He stopped beating the camel and freed it from a part of its burden. And so, the camel went up the hill and Jesus went before it and it no longer stopped until the end of its day’s journey.
16. The camel recognized Jesus, for it had felt the love of God in Him. And the man wanted to know more of the teachings and Jesus taught him gladly and he became His follower. (Chap. 31)



Jesus Spoke
Against Blood Sacrifices

1. Jesus taught His disciples in the outer court of the temple, and one of them said to Him, “Master, it is said by the priests that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Can then the lawful blood sacrifices take away sins?”
2. And Jesus answered, “No blood sacrifice of animal or bird or man can take away sins. For how can a guilt be paid off by shedding innocent blood? No, it will increase the guilt.
3. The priests indeed receive such offerings as an appeasement from the faithful for the violations against the law of Moses; but for the sins against the law of God, there is no forgiveness except by repentance and a change for the better. (Chap. 33)



Jesus Spoke
Against Eating Meat

4. Is it not written in the prophets: Take your blood sacrifices and your burnt offerings, and away with them. Stop eating meat; for I did not speak of this to your forefathers, nor have I commanded them to do so when I led them out of Egypt. But this is what I commanded them:
5. Obey My voice and walk the paths that I have commanded of you, and you will be My people and things will go well for you. And yet they were not so inclined and did not listen.
6. And what did the Eternal command you, other than to practice justice and mercy and to walk humbly with your God? Is it not written that, in the beginning, God ordained the fruits of the trees and the seeds and the plants to be food for all flesh?
7. But they have made of the house of prayer a den of thieves and, instead of the pure offering with incense, they have stained My altars with blood and have eaten the flesh of slain animals.
8. But I say to you: Shed no innocent blood and eat no flesh. Be upright, love mercy and do right, and your days will endure in the land for a long time. (Chap. 33)



Animals Are
Our Brothers and Sisters

7. Jesus came into a village and saw there a stray kitten, and it suffered from hunger and cried out to Him. And He picked it up, wrapped it in His robe and let it rest at His breast.
8. And when He went through the village, He gave the cat to eat and to drink. And it ate and drank and showed Him its thanks. And He gave it to one of His disciples, a widow called Lorenza, and she took care of it.
9. And some of the people said, “This man takes care of all the animals. Are they His brothers and sisters, that He loves them so?” And He said to them, “Verily, these are your fellow brothers from the great family of God, your brothers and sisters who have the same breath of life from the Eternal.
10. And whoever cares for the least of them and gives it food and drink in its need does this to Me, and the one who deliberately allows that one of them suffer privation and does not defend it when it is ill-treated allows this evil to happen as if it were done to Me. For just as you have done in this life will it be done to you in the life to come.” (Chap. 34)



Jesus Spoke About
the Right Kind of Food

1. And some of His disciples came to Him and spoke to Him about an Egyptian, a son of Belial, who taught that it is not against the law to torment animals if their suffering brings profit to people.
2. And Jesus said to them, “Verily, I say to you, the one who derives benefit from the injustice that is inflicted on a creature of God cannot be righteous. Just as little can those whose hands are stained with blood or whose mouths are defiled with flesh deal with holy matters or teach the mysteries of heaven.
3. God gives the grains and the fruits of the earth as food; and for the righteous man, there is no other lawful nourishment for the body.
4. The robber who breaks into a house built by man is guilty; but even the least of those who break into a house built by God are the greater sinners. This is why I say to all who want to become My disciples, keep your hands free from bloodshed and let no meat touch your lips; for God is just and bountiful and has ordained that man shall live by the fruits and seeds of the earth alone.
5. But if an animal suffers greatly, so that its life is a torment for it, or if it becomes dangerous to you, release it from its life quickly and with as little pain as you can. Send it to the other side in love and mercy and do not torment it, and God, your Father, will show mercy to you, just as you have shown mercy to those who were given into your hands.
6. And whatever you do to the least of My children, you do to Me. For I Am in them and they are in Me. Yes, I Am in all creatures and all creatures are in Me. In all their joys, I, too, rejoice and in all their afflictions, I, too, suffer. This is why I say to you: Be kind to one another and to all the creatures of God.” (Chap. 38)



The Conversion
of the Bird Catcher

1. And as Jesus was going to Jericho, He met a man with young doves and a cage full of birds which he had caught. And He saw their misery, as they had lost their freedom and, furthermore, were suffering hunger and thirst.
2. And He said to the man, “What are you doing with these?” And the man answered, “I earn my living by selling the birds which I have caught.”
3. And Jesus said to him, “What would you think, if someone stronger or more clever than you would capture and shackle you, or would throw your wife or your children and you into prison, in order to sell you for his own profit and to earn his living from this?
4. Are these not your fellow creatures, only weaker than you? And does not the same God, Father and Mother, care for them as for you? Let these, your little brothers and sisters, go forth into freedom and see to it that you never do such a thing again, but that you earn your bread honestly.”
5. And the man was astounded at these words and His authority, and he let the birds go free. As the birds came out, they flew to Jesus, sat upon His shoulders and sang to Him.
6. And the man asked more about His teachings and he went his way and learned basket weaving. He earned his bread from this work and broke his cages and traps and became a disciple of Jesus. (Chap. 41)
9. Verily, I say to you, I Am come into the world in order to put an end to all blood offerings and to the eating of the flesh of animals and birds that are slain by men. (Chap. 75)


Sources:
“The Gospel of Jesus,” Verlag DAS WORT, Rottweil 1986

“The Gospel of Perfect Life,” Humata Verlag, Bad Homburg

“The Forgotten Gospel”
Christianity and Animal Protection
Fachverlag für Tierschutz, Munich

“This Is My Word,” Verlag DAS WORT,
Marktheidenfeld, Germany 1996



“The wolf shall
live with the lamb,
the leopard shall
lie down with the kid,
the calf and the lion
and the fatling together,
and a little child
shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall
graze, their young shall
lie down together;
and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall
play over the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall
put its hand on the adder’s den.
They will not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain...”

Isaiah 11:6-9


Animals –
Defenseless Victims

What do great minds
say about eating
pieces of animal carcass?



“THE RELIGIOUS
REVERENCE
FOR WHAT
IS BELOW US
NATURALLY INCLUDES
THE ANIMAL WORLD, AS WELL,
AND OBLIGATES
MAN TO HONOR
AND TREAT THE CREATURES
UNDER HIM WITH CARE .”


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German author



Pythagoras (6th century B. C.), Greek philosopher and mathematician
“Everything that humans do to the animals comes back to them. The one who cuts the throat of a cow with a knife and remains deaf to the bellows of fear, the one who is able to slaughter the screaming little goat in cold blood and eat the bird which he himself has fed – how far is such a one still from crime?”

“The Earth lavishly provides abundant, peaceful food. And it ensures you foods that are free of murder and blood.”


Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author:
“A human can 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.”

“It is only a step from the murder of animals to the murder of humans and thus also from the torture of animals to the torture of humans.”

“When you can kill no person – good, when you can kill no cow or a bird – even better; no fish and insects – even better. Endeavor to come as far as possible. Do not brood about what is possible and what not – do what you can accomplish with your efforts – that is what it all depends on.”

“The eating of meat is a holdover from the greatest brutality; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural result of enlightenment.”
“As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.”
“A human can live and be healthy without killing animals for his food. Therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life, merely for the sake of his appetite. To act thus is immoral. This is so simple and indubitable, that it is impossible not to agree. But because the majority still cling to eating meat, people feel it is justified and say laughing: ‘A piece of beefsteak is a nice thing, and I will eat it with enjoyment at my midday meal today’.”

“If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling – killing.”

“Vegetarianism is a criterion by which we can recognize whether the striving of mankind toward moral perfection is seriously meant.”


Empedokles (490-430 B.C.), Greek physician:
“It is the greatest defilement to tear away life and gulp down noble joints.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright; Nobel Prize winner 1950:
“Animals are my friends – and I don’t eat my friends!”

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”


Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), German author and artist:
“There will be a true human culture only when not only human gluttony but all eating of meat is considered to be cannibalism.”
“Until further notice, the knife flashes, the pigs scream, for one has to make use of them. For everyone thinks: ‘Why the pig, if we don’t polish it off?’ And everyone smiles to himself, and gnaws like the cannibals, until one day someone says ‘how disgusting!’ to the ham from Westfalen.”


François Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher and author in the Age of Enlightenment:
“Certain is that this monstrous bloodbath that never stops in our slaughterhouses and kitchens no longer seems to be an evil to us; on the contrary, we view these monstrous acts, which often have a pestilential effect, as a blessing of the Lord and thank him in our prayers for our murderous acts. But can there be something more revolting than to constantly nourish oneself with the flesh of a carcass?”


Plutarch (45-125), Greek philosopher and author:
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part, I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of mind or soul the first man did so, touching his mouth to gore and bringing his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, and who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the pieces that had little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juiced and serums from mortal wounds ... It is certainly not lions and wolves that we eat out of self-defense; on the contrary, we ignore these and slaughter harmless, tame creatures without stings or teeth to harm us. ... For the sake of a little flesh we deprive them of sun, of light, of the duration of life to which they are entitled to by birth and being ... If you now want to claim that nature foresaw such food for you, then kill what you plan to eat yourselves – but with the means given you by nature, not with the help of a slaughtering knife, a club or a cleaver.”

“For a tiny piece of meat we take the soul as well as sunlight and a lifetime from the animals, for which they were born and for which they are here, as foreseen by nature.”

“Humans should never forget themselves so far that they treat living creatures like old shoes and dead implements, old and worn, which they want to throw away when they are no longer useful. We should not do it and should never ask about the usefulness of old, living beings, which are only slightly or even no longer useful.”


Leonard Nelson (1927- ), German philosopher:
“The most unmistakable criterion for the upright spirit of a society is the extent to which it acknowledges the rights of animals. For while people can join together out of necessity, when as individuals they are too weak to stand up for their rights, thus gradually pushing through their rights by speaking up through coalitions, the possibility of such self-help is denied to animals, and it is therefore solely left to the righteousness of humans as to what extent they of themselves want to respect the rights of animals.”


Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1905), father of the theory of relativity:
“Nothing will increase the chances of survival for life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

“Purely through its physical effect on the human temperament, a vegetarian way of life would be able to influence the fate of mankind most positively.”


Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), inventor of the light-bulb:
“I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.”


Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900, German philosopher:
“Reason begins already in the kitchen.”


Helmut Kaplan (1952- ), German philosopher:
“We do not need any new morals for animals. We must merely stop arbitrarily excluding animals from our present morals.”
Horace (65-8 B. C.), classical Roman author:
“Dare to be wise! Stop killing animals! The one who puts off the hour of a just life is merely like the farmer who waits for the river to dry up before he crosses it.”


Nelly Moia, Luxembourg English professor, animal protector and author:
“Today, since animal protection is visibly ‘in,’ the church propagandists are jumping on the wagon in a well-tried fashion. By making much of St. Francis, the Church wants to have invented, so to speak, love for animals – and yet for 2000 years it has betrayed the poor animals, justified their exploitation, and considered their suffering null and void.”

“Animals have no rights at all still today, and people no obligations at all toward them according to the official teachings of the Catholic Church. Morality and sin, all that takes place exclusively between God and humans, and person to person; what happens to animals is of no consequence.”


Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1869), German philosopher:
“The one who is cruel to animals cannot be a good person.”
“The principles of Christian morals have been limited to encompass only people, leaving the entire animal world without rights. Just see how our Christian rabble acts against the animals, laughing as they kill them totally pointlessly, or mutilate or martyr them, pushing their aged horses to the limit, in order to squeeze the last penny out of their poor bones, until they succumb under their beating. People are the devils of the Earth and the animals their plagued souls.”

“The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use. Not pity, but justice is what one owes to the animals.”


Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher:
“If (man) is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

“The cruelty toward animals is in contrast to the duty of man toward himself.”


Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist and universal genius:
“Man is truly the king of all animals, because his cruelty surpasses theirs. We live from the death of others. We are walking graves!”

“You have described man as the king of the animals – but I would say: king of the predators, among whom you are the greatest; for have you not killed them so that they serve to satisfy your palate, making you the grave of all animals? Does not nature produce enough vegetables with which you can sate yourself?”

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.” “The time will come when we will condemn the eating of animals just as today we condemn the eating of our own kind, the consuming of humans.”

“Already in my youngest years I swore off eating meat, and the time will come when like me the people will see the murderers of animals with the same eyes as they now see the murderers of humans.”


Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French author and Nobel Prize winner:
“To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime!”


Karlheinz Deschner (1924- ), Dr. of Philosophy, historian, literary specialist, philosopher and repeated award-winning author:
“The menu – the bloodiest page that we write.”

“Man is a habitual criminal toward the animals.”
“Moral misgivings toward roast veal? Not from the side of the educator. Not from the side of jurisprudence. Not from the side of moral theology. Not from thousands of other sides. Perhaps from the side of the calf?”
“A society that copes with slaughterhouses and battlefields is itself ripe for slaughter.”

“The one who eats animals is beneath the animals.”

“Meat does not make the meal worse, but the eater.”

“Animal friends: First petting the little lamb, then roast lamb; first cursing the angler, then poached trout. You don’t like hunters, then you eat game!”

“Doesn’t mankind, which kills trillions of animals, deserve just what it does to the animals?”

“Man: a down and out shoddy animal.”


George Sand (1804-1876), French author:
“It will be a great progress in the development of our race [the human race] when we become fruit-eaters and the meat-eaters disappear from the face of the Earth. Everything will be possible on our planet from the moment we overcome the bloody meals of meat and overcome war.”


Charles Darwin (1809-1882), British natural scientist and founder of Darwinism:
“Like humans, the animals feel joy and pain, happiness and unhappiness.”


Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American author and politician:
“You have just dined; and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”


Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), leader of the Indian independence movement, Nobel Prize winner, 1913:
“I feel most deeply that spiritual growth compels us in a certain phase to stop slaughtering our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our physical wants.”

“I believe that spiritual progress demands from us at a certain point that we stop killing our fellow living beings to satisfy our physical cravings.”

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. And I would never want to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. The more helpless a living being is, the greater is its claim to human protection from human cruelty.”

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

“The Earth has enough for the needs of every single person, but not for his greed.”


Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian nerve doctor, founder of psychoanalysis:
“I prefer the society of animals to that of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is terrible. But meanness is the prerogative of a civilized person.”


Rue McClanahan (1936- ), American actress:
“Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.”


Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), founder of scientific geography:
“Cruelty to animals can exist neither with true education nor true learning. It is one of the most typical vices of a base and ignoble people. All peoples today are more or less barbarians toward animals. It is untrue and grotesque when they emphasize their supposed high culture at every opportunity, thereby day after day committing or indifferently allowing the most terrible cruelties to millions of defenseless creatures. Can we wonder that these so-called cultured peoples are heading toward a dreadful path of decline more and more? ”

“The same stretch of land, which as a meadow, that is, cow fodder, feeds ten people with the flesh of animals fattened on it second hand, can, when planted with millet, peas, lentils and barley, maintain and feed one hundred people.”


Sven Hedin (1865-1952), Swedish Asian explorer:
“I have never been able to bring myself to extinguish a light of life; I lack the power to ignite it anew.”


Theodore Heuss (1884-1963), First President of the Republic of Germany:
“The sooner our youth learn on their own to view every brutality against animals as reprehensible, the more they will take care that torment does not develop from play and contact with animals, and the clearer their ability will be later to distinguish between right and wrong in the world of the prominent.”


Laotse (ca. 3-4 centuries before Christ), Chinese philosopher:
“Be good to people, to plants and to animals! Chase neither man nor animal, nor cause them suffering.”


Paul McCartney (1942- ) singer, former Beatles guitarist:
“One may not eat what has a face.”

“I believe in peaceful protest and not eating animals is a protest free of violence.”

“We have become almost-vegetarians. During a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized we were eating the leg of an animal which had until recently been playing in the field itself. Afterward we ate sausage just now and then. Later, on vacation on Barbados, we drove behind a truck loaded with magnificent hens. Suddenly it disappeared into a poultry plant. Since then we no longer eat something that has to be killed beforehand.”

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we’re not contributing to their pain.


Prophet Mohammed (570-632)
“A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is as bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.”


Feodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Russian author:
“Love the animals, love every plant and each thing” If you love everything, then the mysteries of God will reveal themselves to you in all things and in the end you will encompass all the world with love.”


Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish author:
“If modern man himself had to kill the animals that he helps himself to as food, the number of plant-eaters would rise immeasurably.”


Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher:
“All ancient philosophy was oriented toward the simplicity of life and taught a certain kind of modesty in one’s need. In light of this, the few philosophic vegetarians have done more for mankind than all new philosophers, and as long as philosophers do not take courage to seek out a totally changed way of life and to demonstrate it by their example, they are worth nothing.”


Shakespeare (1564-1816) English playwright and poet:
(From Twelfth Night)
“He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit.”


Professor Elly Ney (1882-1968), pianist:
“Vegetarianism has been a concern of mine for decades, and I think it is the natural way of living for people. It is incomprehensible to me that not every animal friend is at the same time a vegetarian.”


Ovid (43-18 B.C.), Roman philosopher and author:
“The age that we called the Golden Age was blessed with the fruits of the trees and with the plants that the Earth brings forth and the mouth of man was not stained with blood. Then, the birds moved their wings in the air securely and the rabbit roamed through the field without fear. Then, the fish was not the unsuspecting victim of man. Every place was without betrayal; no injustice prevailed – everything was filled with peace. In later ages, an evil-doer defamed and despised this pure, simple food and buried in his greedy belly foods that originated from carcasses. With this, he opened the path to wickedness.”


Rep. Andrew Jacobs (1923 - ) former US Congressman:
“I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam, and commented on congresspersons hiding from the reality of war by saying ‘many eat the meat but few go to the slaughterhouse.’- I said it so often I became a vegetarian.”


Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1897), inventor of English stenography:
“One reason for vegetarianism should be mentioned more than normally happens. I mean the appeal to the moral principle, that we may not call upon others to do for us what we would not do ourselves. I have no moral reservations about cleaning my boots, dusting my table or sweeping my office. My feelings would not be offended by doing these and a hundred other manual tasks. But I could not kill an ox, slaughter a sheep, especially a lamb, or twist the neck of a bird. If I cannot do this without offending my best feelings, then I cannot let another do it for me and offend his feelings. If no other reason would speak in favor of our organization, then this would be sufficient to make me take up a meatless diet.”


Plinius (79-23 B.C.), Roman author:
“You should rather stick to healthy cabbage and grain soup than to pheasant and guinea hens.”


Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English philosopher:
“What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ... The question is not, Can they reason? Nor, Can they talk? But, Can they suffer?”


Thomas More (1478-1535), English humanist and statesman:
“The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.”


Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American author:
“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, just as primitive tribes have stopped eating each other after coming into contact with civilized people.”

“No humane being past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.”


Richard Gere (1949 - ), American film star:
“As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.”


Jeremy Rifkin, American activist, anti-biotechnologist:
“The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an ... evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against their fellow human beings.”


Rachel Carson (1907-1964), American author:
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is – whether its victim is human or animal – we cannot expect things to be much better in this world ... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.”


Dr. of Philosophy C. Anders Skriver (1903-1983), German philosopher and author:
“The ethics of nourishment is targeted at the purity of the hands from bloody deeds, the purity under the skin and the purity of the heart. But one cannot speak of the purity of the heart with an unclean eater of all, who gives no thought to, and has no pangs of conscience about, the cruel crimes against the animal world, which take place daily in the Christian world merely for the sake of food for people.”


Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), physician, musician and theologian; Nobel Prize winner 1952:
“It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”

“The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing can justify.”

“Reverence for life means a loathing of killing.”

“Wherever an animal is forced to serve humans, the suffering that it endures concerns us all.”

“My thinking is that we work for the consideration of the animals, completely renounce eating meat and also speak out against it. This is what I do myself. And in this way many a one becomes aware of a problem that has been exposed so late.”

“I admit that the habit of eating meat is not in accordance with sublime feelings.”


Alice Walker (1944- ), American author:
“As we spoke one day about freedom and justice, we were at the dinner table eating steaks. I’m eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. Then I spit it out.”


Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German composer:
“If the sight of the bulls sacrificed to the gods became an abomination to us, now in clean slaughterhouses rinsed thoroughly with water, a daily blood bath takes place unnoticed by those who at their midday meal relish eating morsels of murdered animal carcass prepared and presented beyond recognition and offered at the dinner table. It should henceforth be our sole aim to provide fertile soil for newly cultivating a religion of compassion, in defiance of those who support the dogma of utilitarianism. What do we expect from a religion when we exclude compassion for the animals?”


Joseph von Görres (1776-1848), German author of the Romantic Era:
“The one who wants to go beyond normal life shuns bloody food and does not chose death for his dining master.”


Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th US President:
“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”


Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Jewish-American author; Nobel Prize winner 1978:
“Where animals are concerned, everyone becomes a Nazi ... every day is Treblinka for the animals.”

“Fish, which swam through the water a few hours ago lay with glassy eyes, injured mouths and blood-stained fins on the boat deck. The fishermen, rich sport anglers, weighed the fish and bragged about their catch. Every time that Hermann witnessed how animals are killed, he had the same thought: In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis.”

“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”

“For some time he had been thinking of becoming a vegetarian. At every opportunity, he pointed out that what the Nazis did with the Jews is the same as what people do with animals.”

“We are all God’s creatures – that we pray for grace and righteousness while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that were slaughtered for our sake is incompatible.”

“I will continue to live as a vegetarian, even if the whole world were to begin to eat meat. This is my protest against the state of the world. Atomic power, starvation, cruelty – we must undertake steps against this. Vegetarianism is my step. And it think it is an important one.”


Bryan Adams (1959- ), Canadian rock star:
“I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I was never seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.”


Günther Weitzel (1915-1984), German chemist:
“The Christian conscience cannot be satisfied with not applying the fifth commandment to animals for slaughter. Anyone who has seen a slaughterhouse just one time is more or less shocked and repelled by it. Almost everyone comes to realize that brutally killing animals, first raised and fattened, in order to finally eat them, is unworthy of mankind today and especially of Christianity.”


Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Austrian author:
“Now I can watch you in peace, I do not eat you any longer.” [while watching fish in an aquarium]


Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Croatian physicist and electric technician:
“Many races that live almost exclusively from vegetables exhibit an excellent physique and strength.”


Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), Austrian pacifist; Nobel Peace Prize 1905:
“I am convinced that the time will come when no one will want to nourish himself with carcasses, when no one will be willing to do the work of slaughtering. How many among us are there already who never would have eaten meat if they themselves had had to plunge the knife into the throat of the animal in question!”

“From one hundred educated and sensitive people, already today ninety would never eat meat again if they had to kill or stab to death the animal that they eat themselves.”

“The one who cannot hear the victims screaming or see them jerking, but who, as soon as he is far enough away not to see or hear, is indifferent to the fact that it screams and jerks, has nerves indeed – but he has no heart.”


Jean Jaques Rousseau (1712-1778), French-Swiss philosopher, educator, author and musician:
“One proof that the taste for meat is not natural to humans is also found in the fact that children have an aversion to such foods and prefer vegetable foods, like milk dishes, baked goods, fruit and the like. It is highly important not to ruin this original and natural taste, by turning the children into meat-eaters. For however one may want to explain the facts, it is certain that those who eat a lot of meat are generally crueler and wilder than other people.”


Prof. Dr. Hubertus Mynarek (1929- ), German humanist and church critic, author:
“The slaughtering of the animals, this concentration camp that has gone on through the centuries, is essentially caused by the ‘Mother Church’.”

“I am sure that eating meat not only darkens the soul but even hardens it. It hardens it and makes it insensitive.”

“True Christianity can and must get along without meat. For how can we work toward and realize our own humanity, our own humaneness, our own perfection, when at the same time we know that we are killing our brothers and sisters? It is impossible to attain a higher spirituality when one slaughters animals.”




Animals –
Defenseless Victims

What do great minds say
about HUNTING?



Theodor Heuss (1884-1963), 1st President of the Republic of Germany:
“Hunting is merely a cowardly circumlocution for the especially cowardly murder of fellow creatures who don’t have a chance. Hunting is a variant of human mental illness.”


Johann Wofgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German author:
“Hunting is indeed always a form of war.”


Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author:
“From the murder of animals to the murder of humans is only a small step.”


Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German natural scientist:
“Where a hunter lives, ten shepherds could live, one hundred farmers and a thousand gardeners. Cruelty against animals can exist neither with true education nor true learning. It is one of the most typical vices of a base and ignoble people.”


François Voltaire (1694-1788), French author and philosopher:
“Hunting is one of the surest means of killing people’s feelings for their fellow creatures.”
Pythagoras (6 centuries B.C.), Greek philosopher and mathematician:
“Whatever a person does to animals will be paid back to him in kind.”


Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher:
“Amongst all the ways of life, a life of hunting is without doubt the most repugnant to the civilized condition; the forbiddance to shed blood from the time of Noah seems from the very beginning to be nothing other than the forbiddance to a life of hunting.”


George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright:
“When a human wants to kill a tiger, it is called sport. When a tiger wants to kill a human, it is called bestiality.”


Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German statesman:
“There is never so much lying as after the hunt and before the election.”


Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927- ), German politician (FDP), former Secretary of State:
“I could never shoot at animals; they would have to commit suicide.”


Gustav Heinemann (1899-1976), German politician (SPD), former German president:
“I find it so right that before the beginning of a hunt the hares and pheasants are warned by the sound of horns.”


Hubert Wienzirl (1935- ), former president of the Society for the Protection of Nature:
“Everything has its time. The time for hunting has run out.”


Bernhard Grzimek (1909-1989), German zoologist and producer of animal films:
“I have never understood the joy that some people have in shooting animals dead.”


Wilhelm Dietler (19th C.), German professor of philosophy, author:
“There are really many lovers of hunting who are actually hardened to murder and evil – repulsive monsters, craving blood, used to anguished whimpering, who are never more happy than under noisy, intoxicating diversions. Others have acquired their taste for hunting from the coarseness of their upbringing and way of living, and this is not only professional hunters, but many a country squire and others of like mind, who – without having learned a reasonable, human occupation, without consideration – know no other way to kill their time than by hunting.”


Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German author:
“It is dangerous to awaken the lion, pernicious is the tiger’s tooth; but the most terrible of all is man in his insanity.”


Karlheinz Deschner (1924- ), Dr. of Philosophy, literary giant, philosopher and award-winning author:
“Wherever man takes the right to sacrifice an animal for a purpose, he commits not only an injustice but a crime.”


Erasmus von Rotterdam (1465-1536), Dutch humanist, author:
“Erasmus von Rotterdam considered the hunting-crazed ones as crazy people of this world, who like nothing better than hunting animals and who think they feel an incredible enjoyment whenever they hear the obnoxious sound of the hunting horns and the barking of the hounds. I nearly assume that they sense dog droppings like the scent of cinnamon! ... When they then taste a piece of the meat of the wild game, they think they are almost completely ennobled. While these people with their constant hunting and gluttony basically only attain their own decadence, they think they live like kings.”


Why do you kill us?

“Why do you cook, fry and cut up our body? Did the Creator not give you the herbs and the fruits of the fields and forests? What have we done to you that you keep us in prisons and feed us your waste products?
Your hearts are poor in feeling and merciless. ... Learn to be compassionate by putting yourself in our position...”

In the free book “Animals Lament – the Prophet Denounces” the prophetess of God for our time lends a voice to the animals and exposes the true causes of the suffering of animals, for instance, the assumption of man that takes for granted the right to rule over animals and people with cruelty has a method behind it .

Did we really believe there would be no consequences for the centuries of exploitation, plunder and pollution of Mother Earth? The cup is full! It is enough! After all the cruel acts that man has committed on animals and nature, it’s man’s turn now. What this means is pointed out with uncompromising clarity in the pamphlet “The Murder of Animals Is the Death of Humans.”

 

First Edition, 2003
Published by:
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Translated from the original German title:
Die verheimlichte Tierliebe Jesu; Antike Schriften beweisen: Die Urchristen waren Vegetarier
Tiere – die wehrlosen Opfer; Was sagen große Geister
über das Essen von Tierleichenteilen und über die Jagt?