Thread: Hypocrisy at my Catholic School

I go to a catholic school(but there are a lot of non-catholics there as well) and because it's ash wednesday they decided to not sell meat in the cafeteria. What a load of crap.

Because some people aren't eating meat then the option is not available-it's extremely prejudice but even worse I had to have tuna instead of Chicken on my roll

While I was eating with my friends who are a mixture of christians and atheists I was asking what the difference was between eating meat and fish and they seemed to think that they had me beat by saying that fish live in the sea and animals don't(I don't think they got what I was saying) After thinking for a while I said that maybe it had something to do with a fish being the symbol of christianity and they all thought I was going mad and that the only symbol for it was the cross. I ended up going to talk to the most devout christians I know and even they didn't know it.

I can't believe they had the cheek to restrict my diet but don't even know their own symbol.

I can't wait 'til next year, I'm gonna take in a big steak and eat in front of all of them.

Obviously I know not all Christians are like that but I just didn't get how that was fair.

Fish are animals. :V

If you meant mammals then there's quite a few of those which live in the sea.

yeah don't expect anything in the christian religion to make any sense or be fair at all.

You go to a Catholic school, what else to you expect of the rules? You think they'll celebrate Hannakuh or something?

Be smarter than that.

Christianity is about faith and control of the masses, it doesn't have to make sense.

"they afford greater pleasure as food [than fish], and greater nourishment to the human body, so that from their consumption there results a greater surplus available for seminal matter, which when abundant becomes a great incentive to lust." - Thomas Aquinas

so basically, meat makes you feel good....so its bad.

I too, went to a catholic school for many years . Fortunately, it was a very liberal catholic school and except for a bible class here and there they didnt really force anything on us.

Originally Posted by hawheehawhee

I go to a catholic school(but there are a lot of non-catholics there as well) and because it's ash wednesday they decided to not sell meat in the cafeteria. What a load of crap.

Because some people aren't eating meat then the option is not available-it's extremely prejudice but even worse I had to have tuna instead of Chicken on my roll

While I was eating with my friends who are a mixture of christians and atheists I was asking what the difference was between eating meat and fish and they seemed to think that they had me beat by saying that fish live in the sea and animals don't(I don't think they got what I was saying) After thinking for a while I said that maybe it had something to do with a fish being the symbol of christianity and they all thought I was going mad and that the only symbol for it was the cross. I ended up going to talk to the most devout christians I know and even they didn't know it.

I can't believe they had the cheek to restrict my diet but don't even know their own symbol.

I can't wait 'til next year, I'm gonna take in a big steak and eat in front of all of them.

Obviously I know not all Christians are like that but I just didn't get how that was fair.

You said it yourself: If they're gunna restrict your diet, be creative;
Cook up a big steak and put it into your lunchbox. Problem solved. Creativity overcomes all obstacles.

Meat is murder, so I eat fish.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Meat is murder, so I eat fish.

It doesn't count as murder if the animal is ugly and/or slimy.

Originally Posted by Mark75

It doesn't count as murder if the animal is ugly and/or slimy.

Which means I can kill you with no problem.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Meat is murder, so I eat fish.

A joke? Or are you actually serious? Hard to tell.
Hard to tell a cynical joke from a seriously hypocritical principle cause too many people use that kind of "reason" and actually mean it.

I never quite understood "vegetarians" that are okay with eating fish.
Never heard of ash sunday before. What's the symbology behind refraining from meat on that day?

Don't think I'd have a problem on your school hawhee, cause I just loooooove fish. Especially Tuna.

Originally Posted by SKA

A joke? Or are you actually serious? Hard to tell.
Hard to tell a cynical joke from a seriously hypocritical principle cause too many people use that kind of "reason" and actually mean it.

I never quite understood "vegetarians" that are okay with eating fish.
Never heard of ash sunday before.

Not all vegetarians are vegetarians for religious or philosophical/moral reasons. Some do it for the health benefits alone - eating fish serves as a way of nutritionally rounding out the diet without resorting to red meat or poultry.

Yeah that would actually make sense alot more.
But I know many vegetarians that will say: "Meat is murder... and and and... It's unhealthy... so so so... I eat fish only"

I never had much trouble understanding people that refrained from meat for health reasons, allthough I personally never experienced meat to make me sick or unhealthy.
All I'm aware of that Meat CAN be extremely dangerious, but ONLY if you aren't carefull about handling uncooked meat.

Now what is ash sunday and why don't Catholics eat meat on that day? Anyone?

Originally Posted by SKA

Don't think I'd have a problem on your school hawhee, cause I just loooooove fish. Especially Tuna.

I like fish as well but it was more because of the principal.

Originally Posted by SKA

I never quite understood "vegetarians" that are okay with eating fish.

I'm a vegetarian and this shit confuses the hell out of me. Some people do it for health reasons, but other people, like my ex-girlfriend, are just crazy. She was a vegetarian because she didn't want to kill animals, but she didn't apply this to fish. She even tried to get me to eat fish because she said I was to skinny and need protein. True enough, but fish smells like shit. If I eat any animals again it's gonna be BEEF; steak's the only meat I ever miss.

Was with another girl once who would only eat chicken. I don't know how they do it, the texture of meat is the whole reason I stopped eating it. It just evokes flesh, and eating flesh seems strange to me.