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The Shroud of Turin is believed to be the image of Jesus lying in the tomb
The Seventh Day Adventists, Salvation Army and Methodist denomination were
all founded by vegetarians (Ellen White, General and Catherine Booth, John Wesley).
Many Catholic orders of monks and nuns include many vegetarians. The Trappists,
the Franciscans are 2 of these.
http://veganchristianity.wordpress.com

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Yogananda taught respect for all faiths

Yogananda reputed to have opened up the first vegetarian restaurant in the US. Steve Jobs
arranged that copies of his book be handed out at
Steve's funeral.
https://ananda.org/free-inspiration/books/autobiography-of-a-yogi/
Dennis Weaver while on the set of Gunsmoke
became vegetarian while reading the book The Holy Science by Sri Yukteswar
which has a chapter on fruitarian diet.

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Most Of Ma's early followers were Hindu

Anandamayi Ma once did obeisance to a cockroach as a sign
of the sacredness of all living beings.

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Muslim

The Muslim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, said to be 150 or so when he
passed had an aura of love which caused babies
to crawl to him from their mothers. He chose to
live in a poor neighborhood of Philadelphia.
http://bmf.org
Bawa was a vegetarian.
'As-salāmu ‘alaikum. Peace be with you'
For peace to be with animals. the world must
stop slaughtering and enslaving them for their
flesh, milk and eggs, their fat for vaccines, their
organs for transplants.

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Buddhism

The Buddha in Kamakura Japan represents Gautama Buddha who taught the path to
liberation and ahimsa or nonviolence to all beings. Sai Baba
said of the Buddha that he came across a starving
tiger and her 2 cubs in a previous life and laid his
body down in front of her to save their 3 lives.
http://plumvillage.org

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Jains

Mahavira, founder of the Jains, known for reverence for the lives of all beings. I once
had the thought that Jains who wear masks to
prevent fruit flies entering nostils was a little
extreme. Immediately at Union Station in DC
a fruit fly flew up my nose.
http://veganjains.com

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All Faiths

Sathya Sai Baba called for banning of cow
murder in India. Baba is believed to be a full avatar by millions around the world.
Over 1000 books have been written about him by
people of all faiths.
A Catholic Priest Meets Sai Baba by
Father Mario Mazzoleni
Sai Baba and Sufism by Zeba Bashiruddin
The Holy Man and the Psychiatrist
by Jewish psychiatrist Sam Sandweiss
Baba by Arnold Sch
sathyasai.org

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Jewish

Isaiah is believed to be vegetarian. He wrote many
words about reverence for all life. "The lion (or wolf)
shall lie down with the lamb. They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain." "He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a man."
http://jewishveg.com/schwartz