“The Origin of Christianity: The Pacifism, Communalism, and Vegetarianism of Primitive Christianity,” by Dr. Charles Vaclavik (vegan), Part 2 of 2

As we continue our interview, Dr. Vaclavik explores how the teachings of Pythagoras (vegetarian) spread across the ancient world. “When Philo of Alexandria describes the Therapeutae, he essentially describes a group of people with Pythagorean doctrine identical to what the Judaic Christians were believing.” “Pythagoras’s group in Crotone, Southern Italy, was a communal group who all lived probably very close together. One of the attributes of their activity there was they abolished slavery in Crotone.” “I date Pythagoras, according to one record, that He lived to be 99 years old. The vegetarianism of Pythagoras, I believe, began with His childhood, because He has many occasions in which He thinks that humans were reincarnated as animals.”

Dr. Vaclavik explains that Lord Jesus Christ (vegetarian) believed in reincarnation. “So, we have reincarnation in two places in the New Testament that are documented, and one of them is coming out of the mouth of Jesus. The other is about Jesus.” “I believe that Jesus actually practiced as a physician for 30 years, beginning when He was about 20 years old. I believe that when Jesus went to Galilee, He practiced a pharmacological medication that would be equivalent to what we have today, because a lot of our medications today are derived from plants. I believe that actually, Jesus was able to cure some of these people described in Mark’s Gospel that we think were not curable until the 20th century.” Dr. Vaclavik highlights that modern Christians can learn from the early Christians’ emphasis on vegetarianism and pacifism. “The Nazarenes were absolute pacifists. The residue of a record of Jesus’s pacifism is in Matthew 5 and 6, sometimes referred to as the ‘Sermon on the Mount.’ This identifies Jesus as a pacifist.”