Norfolk, Va.—Because finding Jesus is as easy as surfing the Internet these days, PETA is hoping its new Jesus Web site, located at www.jesus-online.com, will make Christians the latest converts to vegetarianism.Jesus-Online visitors can learn why PETA believes that Jesus was a vegetarian, find out where to read more about Jesus' vegetarianism, get the answers to popular questions about the campaign and even link to a site of essays on Judaism and vegetarianism. They can also read the letter PETA sent to all 449 U.S. Catholic bishops, archbishops, and cardinals, and find out more about PETA's efforts.
While many Christians forego meat on Fridays during Lent, PETA is calling on them to make a permanent change to a compassionate diet.
[Ed.: While all cultures practice dietary restrictions, only their subcultures are vegetarian by choice. Religious devotees often abstain from meat, but always as a sign of their piety and sacrifice, not as a recommendation for the way people should generally behave.
Terrence McNally's new play titled "Corpus Christi" generated obligatory controversy by featuring a Christ-like character who has sex with his apostles. Production of the play also benefitted from the customary indirect funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2000, a Temple University student who objected to the play's portrayal of Jesus as the "king of queers" was, after being denied permission to stage his own counter-production based on traditional Christian teachings, forcibly committed to the Temple University Hospital psychiatric ward, where the doctor evaluating him "saw no reason why he was committed."
After his play opened in London in 2002, McNally was the target of a death fatwa by an group of British Muslims who objected to blasphemy against what Islam considers an important prophet.]
