Ellen White: Meat eating weakens moral powers

[tall73]

It is my understanding the Mrs. White went to great lengths to deliver her followers from a dreadful meat diet which, among other things, was believed to stir the "animal passions" so dreaded by Victorian prudes.

Ellen White did make a number of comments about eating meat.

Regarding animal passions, for more information you can read this now rather old thread.

Ellen White vs. the Bible--A Test Case--Married Sexual Practice

Added slideshow to show most of the information in one place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0K0tvC9P9k A scripture regarding marital sexual relations: 1Co 7:3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 1Co 7:4 For the wife does not...

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That is not correct.

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I stand corrected. I do apologize for not having done my due diligence.

 

[FireDragon76]

Ellen White did make a number of comments about eating meat.

Regarding animal passions, for more information you can read this now rather old thread.

Ellen White vs. the Bible--A Test Case--Married Sexual Practice

Added slideshow to show most of the information in one place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0K0tvC9P9k A scripture regarding marital sexual relations: 1Co 7:3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 1Co 7:4 For the wife does not...

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Her views on sexuality sound strange today but they were common among many Christians in premodern times.

 

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Her views on sexuality sound strange today but they were common among many Christians in premodern times.

Curiously, prudishness reached its zenith in the nineteenth century with its highly stressful social upheavals related to the Industrial Revolution. It was a common twentieth century trope that this mentality was Puritanism, but, historically, Puritanism had a lot less to say about sexual matters than it did about theological purity.

 

[FireDragon76]

Curiously, prudishness reached its zenith in the nineteenth century with its highly stressful social upheavals related to the Industrial Revolution. It was a common twentieth century trope that this mentality was Puritanism, but, historically, Puritanism had a lot less to say about sexual matters than it did about theological purity.

Have you read any of the early Church Fathers or medieval theologians?

Puritans didn't say much about sexuality because much of that "prudishness" as you put it, was implicit and went without saying.

 

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Have you read any of the early Church Fathers or medieval theologians?

Puritans didn't say much about sexuality because much of that "prudishness" as you put it, was implicit and went without saying.

If you read some of the accounts of town proceedings in New England you might be amazed to discover a wider variety of sexual offenses. One poor lad got himself hanged for being over friendly with the family livestock. The pendulum seems to swing back and forth. Moral standards in the eighteenth century were exceedingly lax in Great Britain. That and an enormous consumption of alcoholic beverages, especially gin, led eventually to the Great Awakening with its fruit being Victorian morals and the temperance movement.