The Smoothie Vegetarians

In Part 1 of this post , I discussed my experience as a vegan in an evangelical* Christian community.                In this next part, I will discuss the alternate: being evangelical Christian in vegan/vegetarian communities.                To start out, I am going to throw out a disclaimer: I do not speak for all evangelical Christian vegans; this is a reflection based off my own observations of the vegetarian/vegan movement, encompassing it’s literature, films, and events, and conversations with other evangelical Christians vegetarians/vegans.                Nor is this meant to list the ways I feel evangelical Christians are in any way “marginalized” within vegan movements - at least, not in the U.S. Nonetheless, I think that it is important to initia...

              “Why?”   Ah, the persistent question.     It comes out  at my church:   “ Why be vegan when  God made animals so delicious ? ”   (   ´_ ゝ `)     And  also  my college:   “ Why are vegans so judgmental, Nicole?  Do you think I’m sinning?”   (◞ ‸ ლ )   And  all of  the PETA campaigns   “ Why  adhere to a religion that  endorses  animal slaughter? ”  ( ； ´Д ｀ )   And their “societies of knowledge”:     “ Why do that to yourself?  Aren’t Christians, like, super intolerant?”  ヽ ( 。 _ ゜ ) ノ   Tell me please – why do you care? Why – this question, it  follows me ev erywhere!    Ahem. I apologize. I couldn’t resist rant-rhyming. And please, never stop asking questions.    Anyways,  the purpose of this post is no...