As far as whether we are allowed to kill and to eat animals, there is a remarkable ordering of matters in Holy Scripture. We can read how, at first, only plants are mentioned as providing food for man. Only after the flood, that is to say, after a new breach has been opened between God and man, are we told that man eats flesh...Nonetheless...we should not proceed from this to a kind of sectarian cult of animals. For this, too, is permitted to man. He should always maintain his respect for these creatures, but he knows at the same time that he is not forbidden to take food from them. Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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Continued pressure brought passage of a law in 1921 which (exhaustively) declared that 'no atheistic, infidel, sectarian, religious, or denomi...
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We can all see the ethnic and sectarian identities taking root and growing, with the real potential for dismemberment that this direction implies,
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people. While we have class and sectarian schools the parties su...
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Titus 3:10:
Warn divisive people once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them.
(NIV)
[As for] a man who is factious [a heretical sectarian and cause of divisions], after admonishing him a first and second time, reject [him from your fellowship and have nothing more to do with him](AMP)
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
(KJV)
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