Jesus was a pioneer and a martyr for the cause of animal liberation. 'Cleansing the temple' was an act of animal liberation, not unlike Direct Action Everywhere's open rescue of animals from factory farm. The chief priests, scribes, vendors, moneychangers, and even the worshippers who paid for the animals to be killed were murderers of innocent creatures of God. Although animal sacrifice is no longer practiced in Christianity nowadays, mainstream churches still treacherously maintain that meat eating is allowed or even condoned by God. In reality, eating animal flesh means sacrificing innocent animals' lives to the 'god of the belly'.
CHAPMAN CHEN: Jesus cleansed the Holy Temple and took direct action to “open rescue” the animals therein, because He and God “desire compassion, rather than sacrifice”… In the Gospel of the Ebionites, Jesus condemned animal sacrifice in the Temple of Jerusalem:- “I have come to abolish the sacrifices, and if you cease not from sacrificing, my wrath will not cease from you” (Panarion 30.16.5)…
During the open rescue, Jesus reprimanded those selling doves, “Make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise”. In fact, the Temple as the central place of animal sacrifice was like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as the central marketplace for trading; the cows, lambs and pigeons being sold and bought as offerings were similar to commodities traded on an exchange…
The vendors in the Temple selling animals to those who traveled long distances and could not bring their own animals for sacrifice were akin to the brokers who act as intermediaries between the traders and the exchange… The chief priests, scribes, vendors, moneychangers, and even the worshippers who paid for the animals to be killed, were, of course, murderers of innocent creatures of God…
“Cleansing the temple” was an act of animal liberation not unlike Direct Action Everywhere’s open rescue of animals from factory farm. By emptying the Temple of the animals about to be sacrificed, by expelling the dealers in animals out of the Temple and by quoting Jeremiah 7:11, Jesus debunked the business fraud of the chief priests and scribes and disrupted their lucrative source of income. As a result, they profoundly resented Jesus and plotted to get rid of him once and for all. They framed Him up for being the “King of the Jews”, implying that He’s the leader of a Jewish insurrection against the Roman Empire. This eventually led to Jesus’ crucifixion by the Romans…
Jesus was a pioneer and a martyr for the cause of animal liberation. Although animal sacrifice is no longer practiced in Christianity nowadays, mainstream churches following Paul the religious conman instead of Jesus the Vegan Christ still treacherously maintain that meatism is allowed or even condoned by God. In reality, eating animal flesh means sacrificing innocent animals’ lives to the idol god of the belly, or to gluttony, thereby worshipping a false god in place of the Almighty God… So go VEGAN this Easter, if you are not already vegan. Amen! SOURCE…
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