Why I am not a vegan

[Monica]

Here's an even better question: would they have if Carla had believed those negative aspects of the bible?  Or would they have just let it slide, in the name of free will?

That's a good question. I don't know how much of the Bible Carla believed. I do know that she focused a lot on the words of Jesus and referred to him as her 'Savior.'

I doubt they would have included those aspects, because they were not consonant with the Law of One.

But they did include those aspects, by allowing Carla to have the entire Bible on her altar during the sessions. Granted, it was open to some passages in the New Testament that Carla found comforting, but all of that STS content was right there, inside the book, on the altar! Why was Ra so meticulous about alignments, yet allowed some obviously very dark material to be included on the altar?

Have you read the bible? I have. I studied it extensively for several years. It's hideous! There are some good parts in it - mostly the words of Jesus - but I'd say that, overall, there is far more negative in it than positive.

Ra never told Carla to discard her Bible, even though it had a lot of obviously negative material in it.

Similarly, if eating meat were so negative and wrong (depolarizing), they would have left it out too in their dietary advice, regardless of her nonchalance towards it.

But that's not what Ra did, in the case of the obvious STS influences in the Bible. Ra never told Carla to discard her Bible, but worked with her where she was at.

Ra made statements about Yahweh, in context, but never directly told Carla to quit reading the Bible.

It was the same with the meat issue...exactly the same. Ra gave information about Yahwah...Ra gave information about the STO path. Carla chose to read a book containing a lot of negative stuff supposedly from Yahweh...just as Carla chose to eat meat. In both cases, Ra simply answered questions, and left it up to her (and to us) to extrapolate from that.

As I recall they specifically said, "We do not suggest any hard and fast rulings of diet".  That is also why they said, "to the extent necessary for the individual metabolism, the animal products."

Ra never gave any hard and fast rulings about religions either. Ra gave only general guidelines, saying that the 'holy works' were of mixed polarity, containing both negative influences and remnants of the Law of One. 

I think the main thing to take away from this, is *no one* can unanimously say what another's body requires to function in this physical world, so there is no sense judging others for their diet. Perhaps some peoples bodies *DO* need animal products to function optimally.  And that seems to be what Ra is saying -- that everybody is unique. 

I don't think that's what Ra was saying at all. It's quite a stretch to say that Ra somehow gave blanket approval for engaging in the support of unnecessary cruelty. It's also quite a stretch to say that Ra advised Carla to eat meat, just as it would be a stretch to say that Ra advised Carla to read the Bible.

In both cases, Carla had already made that choice, and Ra worked with her where she was at.

Ra never gave any 'hard and fast rules' about anything. Only guidelines and principles. It's up to us to decide whether we wish to follow those guidelines and principles.