Re: Diet and Spiritual Practice
This. This is, I think at the heart of "why the food you put in your mortal mouth would matter in the scheme of gods and worship"--Not because gods care what you eat, but because what we eat and how we prepare them, how we farm them, how we kill them, and the reasons that we choose to do so (what we value, what we worship, where we live) are a testament to our human-ness. Some religions tell you what to eat or not to eat because they think those things make you less human and more godly/holy, because the root of their beliefs is that we should be ashamed of our humanness...other religions invite you to celebrate that you *can* eat (that the hunt was good, that the harvest was fruitful) because they celebrate our humanness--they celebrate the very act of living. (I prefer the latter)
Originally posted by kalynraye
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