Well Paul talked about "conscience" in Romans 14.
Which verse? I didn't find the word "conscience" in Romans 14.
I did see this though:
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One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.
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But here are some texts that seem to know that there is no scientific difference between a human and an animal and its ability to "feel" stuff.
Well, a human
is an animal. Where we begin to differ is in our level of sentience. But that's more hierarchical than categorical.
Regarding the ability to "feel" stuff, the category of animals contains a spectrum of feel-ability that is too broad to speak of as one thing. I mean, a planarian isn't in the same ballpark as a dolphin even though they are both animals.
Well I am please to tell Cat Sci and the 2008 Larry King guest that there is scripture that aligns with science in that it considers animals brains to be the same type of thing as humans.
No, a planarian "brain", if you can even call it that, is not in the same type of thing as my brain.
and he talked about how Christians feel they have dominion over animals and can treat them however they want because they supposedly don't have "a soul" - "whatever that means".
Animals can't sin. Jesus died for humans, not the other animals.
Quotes taken from this source.
How do Christianity, Islam & Hinduism justify killing of animals for meat? How are they different from each other? - Quora
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"Meat can never be obtained without injury to living creatures, and injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the attainment of heavenly bliss; let him therefore shun the use of meat. Having well considered the disgusting origin of flesh and the cruelty of fettering and slaying corporeal beings, let him entirely abstain from eating flesh."
(Manu-samhita 5.48-49)
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"Men gifted with intelligence and purified souls should always treat others as they themselves wish to be treated. It is seen that even those men who are endued with learning and who seek to acquire the greatest good in the shape of liberation, are not free of the fear of death. (Mahabharata, Anu.115.20)
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"He who purchases flesh, kills living creatures through his money. He who eats flesh, kills living beings through his eating. He who binds or seizes and actually kills living creatures is the slaughterer. These are the three sorts of slaughter through each of these acts. He who does not himself eat flesh but approves of an act of slaughter, becomes stained with the sin of slaughter. (Mahabharata, Anu.115.38-39)
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"Abstention from cruelty is the highest Religion. Abstention from cruelty is the greatest self-restraint. Abstention from cruelty is the highest gift. Abstention from cruelty is the highest penance. Abstention from cruelty is the highest sacrifice. Abstention from cruelty is the highest power. Abstention from cruelty is the greatest friend. Abstention from cruelty is the greatest happiness. (Mahabharata, Anu.116.38-39)
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"Gifts made in all sacrifices [rituals], ablutions performed in all sacred water, and the merit which one acquires from making all kinds of gifts mentioned in the scriptures, all these do not equal in merit abstention from cruelty." (Mahabharata, Anu.116.40)
"unclean" is one thing.
Ritual "purity" is one thing.
Let me get this straight: Humans are no different from animals. Animals eat each other, including humans, but humans are not supposed to eat animals?
It sounds to me like you are saying we are the same but at the same time saying that we must be different.
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"Hence a person of purified soul should be merciful to all living creatures. That man, O king, who abstains from every kind of meat from his birth forsooth, acquires a large space in the celestial region. (Mahabharata, Anu.116.32-35)
So if animals do have a soul, should we then hold the lion accountable when it murders and eats a gazelle?
The Hindu religion and its closely-related offshoots are over 20% of the world's population.
The Buddhism offshoot has forbidden meats, but allows pig consumption. But the concept of Karma makes many vegetarians automatically.
Yeah I don't get it. We are animals, and we have K9's designed for tearing flesh. We've evolved eating meat.
So what now? Now that's bad thing?
Don't trash all religions for the absurd directions they went in. They all have bans on food (unless severely twisted) and clearly there was an origin of concern for life (free of unscientific absurdities like saying "dogs/pigs don't have a soul like us humans").
My sarcastic remark was that there are some behaviors that stem from religion that do have a scientific standing.
Back in the day, eating pork could make you sick. It makes sense that there was a religious belief against it.
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