PETA Twists Religion
From Cybercast News Service:
PETA Twists Religion to Promote Animal 'Rights,' New Report Charges
August 23, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - Americans are accustomed to the tactics of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but the group's in-your-face advocacy is increasingly calculated to offend, provoke and otherwise show contempt for America's religious faithful, according to a new report released by the Center for Consumer Freedom.
Entitled "Holy Cows: How PETA Twists Religion to Push Animal 'Rights,'" the document claims that this animal rights group hijacks religious rituals and institutions in an attempt to impose its stated philosophy of "total animal liberation."
The report also chronicles PETA's controversial assaults on the scriptures and traditions of Roman Catholics, Protestant Christians, Jews, Mormons and Muslims and contains an inventory of scriptures contradicting PETA's assertion that only vegetarians can claim to be observant people of faith.
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Full-time "faith-based campaigners" work for PETA under the direction of a campaign coordinator who has publicly advocated "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" as "a great way to bring about animal liberation."
The organization has also begun holding protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its congregation from Sunday-morning harassment, the report claims.
In addition, the group's billboards and other advertisements taunt Christians with the message that livestock "died for your sins," misrepresent the teachings of the Mormon faith and make the false claim that Jesus was a vegetarian.
PETA even paraded a statue of a cow dressed as the Pope in front of Catholic churches, the report states.
Contrary to a wealth of rabbinical teaching, PETA claims that ritual kosher slaughter is inherently cruel. It directs Jews to abstain from eating lamb during the Passover seder.
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posted by Pro Ecclesia 10:54 AM
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Here's something clever and humorous about the PETA Holy Cow thing. Fiddleback's Cowpope
Here's their explanation/defense, which in my opinion was wholly unnecessary.
I know this is going to sound bad until you read on, but there is actually something beautiful about PETA's blasphemy. They think that by putting a cow on a cross that they have somehow made the cow “sacred” and therefore we wouldn’t want to eat him.
Boy, do they have us Catholics wrong! We eat the Victim on the cross every time we go to Communion.
it's worth noting that the Center for Consumer Freedom, who commissioned this study, are funded by Philip Morris and other corporations who have a strong vested interest in keeping the factory farms going.
www.consumerdeception.com
they should probably be renamed the Center for Corporate Freedom.
So, PETA didn't parade a cow dressed up as the Pope in front of a Catholic Church and take out ads telling us that livestock died for our sins?
It was Philip Morris using some form of mind control (doubtless delivered via evil "second-hand smoke") that has brainwashed us into believing that PETA did all these things?
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