V*gans: What religion are you?!
What religion do you consider yourself, or if you're not religious, what sort of spiritual pathway(s) do you identify with (including atheism)?
Just curious. I know ethics have a lot to do with many V*gans' lifestyle, so I wonder what sort of spiritual beliefs align with some of you.
Answers: This question is for vegetarians and vegans.
What religion do you consider yourself, or if you're not religious, what sort of spiritual pathway(s) do you identify with (including atheism)?
Just curious. I know ethics have a lot to do with many V*gans' lifestyle, so I wonder what sort of spiritual beliefs align with some of you.
I am a RAW VEGAN, I am a devout Christian go to a Charismatic Church. Kind of a off shoot of Pentecostal. Core belief is Jesus came & died for our sins & rose again. Thrpough his sracifice we have the power of laying of hands & pray are healing of the sick, speaking in "tongues" as a gift from the Holy Spirit as well as many other gifts.
Our worship is very primary to my way of life that & study of God's word & practice of His tennets.
I belevie we are "made" to be Vegan though we can live eatting other ways WE THRIVE eatting a plant based diet as close to natural as possible.
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Slainté(to your health)
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I'm catholic
Hi!
I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian thinking about going vegan. My religion is Catholic.
I hope this helps!!!=]
Agnostic
Good question. I'm not at the moment but was once just regular vegetarian. I'm Catholic.
I consider myself agnostic, and see no connection between that and my not eating meat!
(I know some religions prohibit certain meats, I'm just answering for ME!)
Brought up Protestant but now just investigate my spiritual side and definitely no longer Christian. Probably more agnostic than anything.
Atheostic.
p.s. the asterisk goes between the G and the N. It replaces the "a" in vegan and the "etaria" in vegetarian as to be shorthand for "vegetarian(s) and/or vegan(s)"
I'm a vegan and an atheist; I don't see a connection between the two and I don't see atheism as a 'spiritual pathway'.
Edit** I think it's interesting that many people assume veg*ns will be religious or follow a spiritual path. . This question comes up from time to time, but the question of politics does not.
I am a passionately political person with a lifelong history of political activism and commitment (and no, I am not talking about AR activism). My record of human rights activism certainly does not make me an 'empty' anything, though being called an empty soul doesn't bother me - I'm an atheist after all, we don't believe in souls.
I am concerned with the physical, the here and now, rather than spirituality.
vegetarians here, not vegan. But I was raised between My father (baptist minister), and my mother (methodist). My wife's catholic.
catholic
im a christian
I'm Christian, but I haven't gone to church in five years.
Agnostic. I've got atheist leanings (I don't believe there is a god) but consider myself agnostic (I don't KNOW there isn't a god. Plus I'd like to have just that little shred of hope for an afterlife.)
Mainly I just try to be a good person and enjoy life.
I'm still trying to figure that out...
Vegan, and my religious beliefs do not fit in with any major religious group. I suppose Agnostic or Pagan (without the multiple deities) but that is still too loosely defined. I have very specific beliefs but they do not fit with any major faith that I could find. I agree with a little of each faith but disagree heavily with the rest... I follow the beat of my own drum, I suppose.
Raised Christian but more "spiritual" than "religious".
BTW ... agnosticism and atheism are spiritual paths. I have friends that are either and they are among the most spiritually atune people that I know. One can be religious and not have a spiritual path. Some have one but don't know it. Some are just empty souls whether they are "religious", atheists, or agnostics.
Catholic. but i'm not one of those people who like say grace before they eat or go to church every sunday. i go to church ocausilally.
I'm atheist.
I'm atheist for the same reason I'm vegan: I value common sense and compassion.
Protestant Christian, but not a bible-thumping fundamentalist, right-wing jerk. Am very progressive and non-jugmental except about fanatical anything.
I am not of any religion. My beliefs and actions revolve around the real world and not the imaginary.
Flexi---you are a fanatic in your non-fanaticism, more confusion in flexiland.
im catholic-- i notice alot of your answers were catholic and christioan, woooo hooo???
im only new at being a vegan, and a few relatives comment on how god made animals for us to eat, but if i dont eat them im loving them , im sure hes happy with that xxxxxxxxxxxxxx