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Śrīla Prabhupāda: But the Bible does not simply say, “Do not kill the human being.” It says broadly, “Thou shalt not kill.”

“Thou Shalt Not Kill”

Father Emmanuel: But in the Old Testament the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” does refer to murder. And when Jesus said, “Thou shalt not kill,” he extended this commandment to mean that a human being should not only refrain from killing another human being, but should also treat him with love. When he said, “Thou shalt not kill,” he also meant in the mental and emotional sense – that you should not insult anyone or hurt him, treat him badly, and so on.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: We are not concerned with this or that testament but only with the words used in the “Thou shalt not kill” means “The Christians should not kill.” Interpretation is necessary if things are not clear. But here the meaning is clear. “Thou shalt not kill” is a clear instruction. Why should we interpret it?

All over the world, people love not God but their dogs. Not only the Christians, but also the Hindus, the Muhammadans, and all others are guilty. They have rubber-stamped themselves “Christian,” “Hindu,” or “Muhammadan,” but they do not obey God.

The commandment is “Thou shalt not kill.”

Visitor: Christians take this commandment to be applicable to human beings, not to animals.

At ISKCON’s Paris center Śrīla Prabhupāda talks with Cardinal Jean Daniélou: “The Bible does not simply say, ’Do not kill the human being.’ It says broadly, ’Thou shalt not kill.’… Why do you interpret this to suit your own convenience?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: But the people do not. Their disease is that they don’t want to understand.

Visitor: I think understanding God is not a question of intelligence, but a question of humility.

The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. His prescribed food is animal flesh. So how can you say that animal killing is not a sin?

Śrīla Prabhupāda: The problem is that the Christians do not follow the commandments of God.

Cardinal Daniélou: God says to the Indians that killing is not good, and he says to the Jews that …

Śrīla Prabhupāda: The Vaiṣṇava philosophy teaches that we should not even kill plants unnecessarily.

Jesus Christ taught, “Thou shalt not kill.” Why do you interpret this to suit your own convenience?

If you do not follow the orders of God, then where is your love? And if you’re disobedient, your love is not true.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Jesus Christ said, “Thou shalt not kill.”

We should not think of him as an ordinary human being. If Jesus Christ were an ordinary man, then he could not have delivered God consciousness.

Prabhupāda, Christianity’s sanction of meat-eating is based on the view that lower species of life do not

The first point is that they violate the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” by maintaining slaughterhouses