Religiously/Spiritually Based Diet

[SalixIncendium]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

 

[Vee]

We don't eat blood. Other than that, diet is a personal choice.

I do impose a number of restrictions on myself for health reasons and because round is not my favorite shape, but that has nothing to do with my religion.

 

[Shiranui117]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

Every Wednesday and Friday (except during the Christmas season between December 25th and January 6th, and during the Easter season), go vegan. From November 15th to December 24th, go vegan and don't use oil for cooking. For the entirety of Lent and Holy Week, go vegan and don't use oil for cooking. The week before Lent starts, vegetarian only. Between Pentecost and the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29th), go vegan. From August 1st to August 14th, go vegan.

Nowadays, some jurisdictions relax the fasting restrictions a bit, such as allowing for oil (the production of which has gotten WAY cheaper over the millennia), and saying just to go vegan on Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fasting periods.

The reasoning: Meat and dairy are more expensive than other kinds of foods (especially in the ancient world, but still today), and the money we save during this time should go to charity. Also, it's a way of training us to resist cravings and temptation so that we can better serve and follow God's commands.

 

[sun rise]

From my perspective, it's more important what comes out of one's mouth (words), than what goes into it.

 

[wizanda]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

My dietary morality has become interconnected with my religious comprehension, as they've said the same as i've learned in nutritional biology.

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

Eggs are chicken periods.
Milk is for calves.
Meat isn't digestible unless we cook it, and then sits rotting inside us; so we're not omnivores.

Reasons Biblically questioned it, was that Genesis 1:29 says 'God gave us fruit as meat'; this i tried on myself for 2 months, and we can live amazingly this way, felt like a 5 year old with the amount of energy.

Protein comes from amino acids, and we can get these direct from fruit, as the enzymes allow our body to easily absorb it.

My belief is that all of life is symbiotic, and Oneness is something we've forgotten to the extent that exists, we're one with everything; so when we eat suffering we become it, when the land is sorrowful, we have the same symptoms, as all is One.

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

Feeling dirty and heavier after, a big source of cholesterol is animal products, and so eating the stuff (even tho a head chef for years) gives me thoughts of becoming more dense spiritually, which isn't appealing.

Also don't drink alcohol, and did have a phase of no vinegar; yet like sweet and sour sauce too much.

Personally believe these are similar to the Laws of a Nazarite in Numbers 6... When it says the Nazarite should not come near dead bodies, my understanding is all dead flesh, so no eating animals or anything dead, which is why no vinegar or wine as well.

This concept of God not being a God of death exists in many religious values; so my understanding is that to truly master ascension, we have to recognize matter is a dimension, our waves within it from bad karma limit our potential to ascend, so why cause them to begin.

In my opinion.

 

[Liu]

No real restrictions, but a recommendation to eat healthy or to at least put some thought into it regarding the consequences if one chooses not to.
And a recommendation to not be hypocritical in one's decisions.

 

[Phantasman]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

Christ never stipulated a food. So I don't don't either.

 

[Grandliseur]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

Don't eat blood and meat from strangled animals. However, with the present culture where everything is bought and consumed from stores where 3rd parties prepare all things, there is less control than desirable.

But, one scripture tells us that what is sold at the market is OK, specifically speaking about the meat, I suppose. Decidedly blood products are revolting to me.

 

[Vinayaka]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

Yes. My version of Hinduism is lacto vegetarian, and it's been about 45 years since I adopted that diet. Unlike some other sects, we're okay with onion and garlic as well.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Yes. My version of Hinduism is lacto vegetarian, and it's been about 45 years since I adopted that diet. Unlike some other sects, we're okay with onion and garlic as well.

Is yours a personal version or a more popular version? For what reason does your religion dictate you follow a lacto-vegetarian diet?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Don't eat blood and meat from strangled animals. However, with the present culture where everything is bought and consumed from stores where 3rd parties prepare all things, there is less control than desirable.

But, one scripture tells us that what is sold at the market is OK, specifically speaking about the meat, I suppose. Decidedly blood products are revolting to me.

What is the religious reason you are not permitted to eat blood and meat from strangled animals?

 

[Vinayaka]

Is yours a personal version or a more popular version? For what reason does your religion dictate you follow a lacto-vegetarian diet?

Sects vary, sampradayas vary. Oroginally it was a personal version, but now it's a sampradaya version. (I'm under vows to this regard.) Not a sectarian diet though.

The reason is simple ... ahimsa, and it's probably the best practical way to put ahimsa into practice. As for the word 'dictate' ... well, nobody is forced. Within the sampradaya, well, sort of. It's part of your commitment, or dedication. So it's like a marriage. You take a vow of fidelity, but of course you can break it if your instincts get the better of you. Might be frowned upon by the faith community.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

My dietary morality has become interconnected with my religious comprehension, as they've said the same as i've learned in nutritional biology.

Eggs are chicken periods.
Milk is for calves.
Meat isn't digestible unless we cook it, and then sits rotting inside us; so we're not omnivores.

Reasons Biblically questioned it, was that Genesis 1:29 says 'God gave us fruit as meat'; this i tried on myself for 2 months, and we can live amazingly this way, felt like a 5 year old with the amount of energy.

Protein comes from amino acids, and we can get these direct from fruit, as the enzymes allow our body to easily absorb it.

My belief is that all of life is symbiotic, and Oneness is something we've forgotten to the extent that exists, we're one with everything; so when we eat suffering we become it, when the land is sorrowful, we have the same symptoms, as all is One.

Feeling dirty and heavier after, a big source of cholesterol is animal products, and so eating the stuff (even tho a head chef for years) gives me thoughts of becoming more dense spiritually, which isn't appealing.

Also don't drink alcohol, and did have a phase of no vinegar; yet like sweet and sour sauce too much.

Personally believe these are similar to the Laws of a Nazarite in Numbers 6... When it says the Nazarite should not come near dead bodies, my understanding is all dead flesh, so no eating animals or anything dead, which is why no vinegar or wine as well.

This concept of God not being a God of death exists in many religious values; so my understanding is that to truly master ascension, we have to recognize matter is a dimension, our waves within it from bad karma limit our potential to ascend, so why cause them to begin.

In my opinion.

Just curious on what your thoughts are with fermented products, which are on their way to being vinegar but not quite there yet. Since its usually associated with good gut health.

 

[Grandliseur]

What is the religious reason you are not permitted to eat blood and meat from strangled animals?

Acts 15:
17 That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, And all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, 18 Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old. 19 Wherefore my judgment is, that we trouble not them that from among the Gentiles turn to God; 20 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.​

Noah as the ancestor of us all, (in some sense), was told directly not to eat blood and that this applied to us all.

When a child, I asked my religious father how we could eat meat since it always contains some blood. His answer was very intelligent. He explained how as long as we kept the edicts in how to kill the animal, e.i. bleed it of blood, we didn't have to worry about what is left naturally. It is then a question of obeying as much as possible what we are told to do. So, I do not mind eating a stake that is a bit rare.

1 Corinthians 10:. 25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience. 26 For “the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
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[Thief]

From my perspective, it's more important what comes out of one's mouth (words), than what goes into it.

shades of the Carpenter...

 

[Thief]

Christ never stipulated a food. So I don't don't either.

correct me if I'm wrong.....He said....
Take some wine for the sake of your stomach

and changing water into wine seems to be a 'thumbs up'

 

[sayak83]

Is your diet restricted by your religion or spirituality?

If so, what are you not permitted to eat? When are you not permitted to eat it? For what reason?

What are the implications of breaking this diet?

I don't eat mammals and trying to eat chicken and fish less and less. Getting difficult though with rising cost of veggies in India.
Animals suffer in proportion to their consciousness. So the aim is to minimize suffering stemming from my actions.

 

[Phantasman]

correct me if I'm wrong.....He said....
Take some wine for the sake of your stomach

and changing water into wine seems to be a 'thumbs up'

That comes from 1 Timothy 5. No one knows who wrote Timothy (Pastorals) since they appear to be written after Pauls death, and does not follow his writing style.

 

[wizanda]

Just curious on what your thoughts are with fermented products, which are on their way to being vinegar but not quite there yet. Since its usually associated with good gut health.

Interesting question; aware that in Japanese cooking, we're to have slimy food as something healthy...

I do eat tofu which is fermented, and soy sauce; it is questioned that soy products are not good for us unless partially fermented, as the body can't break them down otherwise...

I don't see these are dead products, they're a new form of life such as a fungi growing, and tho we have to watch our soy intake as a man, as it is high in estrogen, maintaining moderation is balance.

In my opinion.

 

[Thief]

That comes from 1 Timothy 5. No one knows who wrote Timothy (Pastorals) since they appear to be written after Pauls death, and does not follow his writing style.

and do you think?....
the Carpenter's water to wine miracle is an allowance?