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How is the mass killing of animals in the food industry morally accpetable since animals have both intelligence and personality? isn't the food industries massive slaughter program almost just as deplorable as what Hitler did to the Jews? especially if humans are "just animals" who have "evolved" from "lower spieces" and are therefore "interrelated". On the other side, If killing animals is bad, how do you drawl the line? Should we saver the little bugs? ...are they my friends?
For those unfamiliar with Nietzscheanism, Nietzsche disregarded morality because there was no God and therefore no basis. Nietzsche thereby influenced people like Hitler. Hitler's "catholicism" was strictly political. That's the line of thinking most Christians take anyways.
Some evidence of Hindu/Buddhist thought is there in some of the passages in the gospels. For example John 1:1 also being found in many ancient pre-Christian Hindu texts as the starting point for chapters, clearly a possibility of Hindu influence. “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with Brahma, and the word was Brahma” (Krishna Yajurveda, Kathaka Samhita, 12.5, 27.1) A lot of what Jesus said about ethics parallels with Buddha's basic teaching. Jesus' experience of the three temptations in the wilderness is also paralleled with the Buddha. They are different temptations, but the existence of three temptations in the wilderness by Mara (Satan) is significant. Also you have some verses in the New Testament that hint at reincarnation theory, like when Jesus hinted at the idea that John the baptist actually was Elijah, "For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it, John himself is Elijah who was to come." (Matthew 11:13-15) Hindu conceptualization would also explain where Christianity conceived of the idea of incarnation in the form of an avatar outside of mere mythology. Some Christians would respond that Jesus' claim to uniqueness sets him apart from Hindu avatars, but those Hindu avatars also make similar claims of uniqueness. In the Gita we find Krishna making similar "I AM" claims. So this may be just God speaking in first person while incarnate in different individuals. "Of all creations I am the beginning and the end and also the middle, Arjuna. I am the spiritual science of the self, and I am the truth." (Gita 10:32)
How did Climate Change become a "Liberal Hoax" when 97% of Climate Scientists are Alarmist
Consensus: 97% of climate scientists agree
Temperature data from four international science institutions. All show rapid warming in the past few decades and that the last decade has been the warmest on record.
Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities,1and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources.
This information is taken from NASA.GOV (http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/)