: Legality is the only issue if right and wrong are subject to moral relativism, Kevin. I cement my position mostly on the Bible which is an unchanging standard and set apart from my opinion. You think the Bible is an unchanging standard? Can you read Hebrew and back up this belief; or do you believe the Bible is unchanging because you've been told to believe that the Bible is unchanging?
(I can read Hebrew; and there are enough differences between Biblical and modern Hebrew, let alone the differences acquired from translating to English through Ancient Greek.)
: All the things you mention (incidiously and contemptuously linking man's depravity with meat eating) are not right according to the Bible but their legality can be established by majority opinion.
Wanking is wrong! We're all going straight to Hell!
(for which of us hasn't, at some point...?)
: I do not wish your opinions on meat consumption ever to be held by a majority. I revere freedom.
I want to burn forests, myself. I like burning forests so much that I'm going to continue burning forests regardless of what anyone else says. I don't care if it damages the planet or causes suffering - I must be allowed to torch forests in the name of freedom.
(note: the above was satirical; I'm not really a twisted firestarter. That's Keith's job.)
: If secular law finds its way into my diet I will rebel.
*really*? Do you habitually ignore the laws of the country you live in?; a country which took especial care to put the separation of Church and State into the Constitution...
Speaking personally, I'd find the idea of a religious state far more repellant; just look at the countries which are run by theocracies.
Gideon
