Thou Shall Not Kill: Vegetarianism in the Christian Faith

Biblical justifications for a vegetarian diet seem to meet with much adversity within mainstream American culture. Texts suggesting that people were intended to be vegetarians can be found in the Bible. However, this interpretation of Biblical texts has not been widely accepted by Protestant Christianity. This research attempts to identifY social and religious characteristics of people who are vegetarian. Fundamentalism, denomination, belief in the inerrancy of the Bible, and strength of belief in Christianity are examined as factors related to supporting vegetarianism. The General Social Survey's data from 1993 and 1994 were used in this study. The data were analyzed using frequencies, means, cross tabulations. correlations, and regressions. The sample was 57% female and 87% white, the mean age was 46 and the average level of education was 13 years. The study found that, among the independent variables. belief in animal rights, rather than any specific religious views, had the strongest influence on vegetarianism.

The birds of the Bible. /

"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by Lindsay & Blakiston ... Stereotyped by J. Fagan, printed by C. Sherman, plates printed by T. Sinclair"--Verso of title page.

Reading the Bible,

"This book is composed of three lectures, on the L.P. Stone foundation, delivered at Princeton theological seminary, on the third, fourth, and fifth of February, 1919."

List of technical workers in the Department of agriculture and outline of functions of main branches of the department.

1927- compiled in the Office of personnel and business administration.

An historical essay on the state of physick in the Old and New Testament and the Apocryphal interval: with a particular account of the cases mentioned in Scripture, and observations upon them.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rabbinical literature: or, The traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of his appearing; with an appendix comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation; also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained.

The first edition of the German original was issued Frankfurt, 1700, under the title "Entdecktes judenthum", but was suppressed until after a second edition appeared at Königsberg, 1711. Editions of the translation, with preface by J.P. Stehelin, were issued 1732-34 and 1742 under title: The traditions of the Jews ...

The mountains of the Bible : their scenes and their lessons /

Lectures delivered during author's ministry each Sabbath, winter of 1847-48.

The Plants of the Bible /

Mode of access: Internet.

The morality of the Bible : extracted from all the canonical books, both of the Old and of the New Testament ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The Birds of the Bible.

Mode of access: Internet.

Scriptural healing : arranged from the Bible /

Mode of access: Internet.

Reading the Bible,

"This book is composed of three lectures, on the L. P. Stone foundation, delivered at Princeton theological seminary, on the third, fourth, and fifth of February, 1919."

Little folks of the Bible,

I. Boys in patriarchal homes.--II. Boys in the days of the prophets.--III. Girls of the Bible.--IV. Boys of the New Testament.

Sexology of the Bible; the fall and redemption of man, a matter of sex.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oeconomia ivdiciorvm divinorvm : per omnes sacri codicis libros, secundum seriem seculorum & similitudinem rerum adornata atque digesta /

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.