"You're wearing LEATHER SHOES, you HYPOCRITE!" or "Well, you've KILLED lots of carrots haven't you!"

They never get that thre are other reasons to not eat meat besides the obvious. It becomes difficult with people I don't want to explain myself to because it's like "Well, it's not that I don't eat meat, I just don't eat *this* meat" and I don't want them to think it's *their* food I'm specifically rejecting, nor do I want to get into fights about scripture.


*sigh* What I'm trying to say is that people always get aggressive if they think you're trying to "get one up" on them. Declaring belief in a moral system definitely falls into the category of "Expect the ignorant to take potshots at you".

I'd like to figure out how to do it without alienating intelligent people though.

That's strange to me, because I much prefer a Jesus who had faith, but at the same time was human enough to wonder whether he was right.

Me too, actually.

"And why is this happening?... What's the big deal?... Zzzz....")

LOL. I like it when people expect me to be shocked by any of it, because...I wasn't. It wasn't anything I had't already considered or known about.