It’s not the meat, it’s the motion. Well, at least some oral motion. Like chewing.
A quick admission. I was dunked in my yute, I suffered under evil, nasty nuns, and have left any organized religion forever.
Now that Sybaritic celebration of breasts, drinks, cheap plastic beads, and loutish behavior is over, those who remain in the flock have Lent to enjoy and look forward to. Here is the latest from their local leader:
A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Chicago said that Catholics risk losing the Holy Spirit meaning by abstaining from meat if they go for alternatives. Lent is generally when Christians show that they can relate to the suffering of Jesus Christ’s torture, crucifixion and murder by giving up everyday things like cheeseburgers.
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Ah yes, the almighty holy cheeseberder.
Today, Chicago Archdiocese has decided soy or veggie protein-based “meats” are not viable alternatives for Catholics. Because sheeple must abstain from eating meat on Fridays and because a veggie burger contains not one atom of animal flesh, you would think this healthy alternative would be greeted with open buns. Nope. The grand pooh bah has decreed that beyond beef is NOT a viable alternative.
I dropped meats (ham, beef, pork, pork chops, bacon, fried pigskin, bacon, lamb, pork, tartar, bacon and ham) from my diet last year. Haven’t regretted it since. At least not much. In fact, between the weight loss, the feeling of being healthier, and how raw beef now leaves me wincing, I am quite happy with my decision. Given my atheistic, anti-religious positions and my willingness to point out hypocrisy, irrational decisions, continuing scandals on so many levels, especially with children as victims, I really don’t care about the idea of Easter, Lent, meatless Fridays, or the idea of kneeling to an imaginary sky creature.
Still, it amuses me to no end that due to commercial demands, the Catholic Church moved from no meat on any Friday, to no meat throughout Lent, and finally to meatless Fridays, but only during Lent. Other than service as fodder for cattle, veggies have no relationship with meat, unless cowshit was turned into fertilizer and applied to the crops at issue. Protein based faux meats ARE NOT MEAT. They contain no animal flesh. They simply have color, texture and taste which does a great job of mimicking the bovine based burger. That, apparently, is too much for Chicago’s Archdiocese.
Seriously. Where’s the beef? (Another confession. I ALWAYS wanted to find a way to ask that question in a diarrhee) Perhaps he was watching Soylent Green?