A Prayer for Compassion, Part 4 of 6

“GOD designed us and HE gave us an owner’s manual, and it's called the Bible. And in the Bible, HE tells us what we should be eating. HE tells us what HE designed us to eat, and if we care about ourselves and if we care about what GOD wants, then we will follow HIS instructions for a healthy life. And when I see people who call themselves Christians eating fried chicken and pork chops and all this stuff that they know is unhealthy and that's going to destroy their health simply because it tastes good, then I have to ask, ‘Do you love the pleasure of eating this unhealthy food more than you love GOD? Because if you really love GOD, then you would do what HE asked us to do, and that is eat a plant-based diet.’”

And when you realize the type of misery and pain and suffering that’s inflicted on other animals in order to raise them by the billions just so they can be killed and dismembered and people can eat them, it’s impossible for, I think, a feeling person to justify that – particularly someone who says that they believe in a loving GOD. It’s one thing if it’s a matter of life, death, and necessity, but in modern life, it’s not.”

“We are facing a climate crisis, a planetary emergency, which is really messaging to us that the human way of living is out of balance. By the end of the 21st century, human beings are likely to extinct 5 million of the 10 million species on this planet. According to the Jewish tradition, it is forbidden to extinct a species. We have a mandate to be stewards, to care for the creation that GOD has entrusted to us, to be righteous, to be mindful, and that comes down to the smallest level of human consumption.

Everything that we consume, we need to think, ‘Am I elevating this object in the highest way? Am I using it in holiness? Am I reusing it? Do I actually need this?’ If we do that, then we're living at a higher vibrational frequency. We're living in resonance with the Divine. We're living in resonance with the planet that GOD has given us.”