Quote #175758
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
John Cleese
About This Quote
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Interpretation
The line is a deliberately reductive, comic syllogism: it treats the fact that animals are “made of meat” as evidence of divine permission to eat them. As satire, it highlights how people sometimes retrofit religious or teleological reasoning to justify appetites and cultural norms, turning a complex ethical question (animal suffering, stewardship, necessity) into a glib proof. The humor depends on collapsing “is” into “ought,” exposing the weakness of arguing from design or nature to moral entitlement. Read this way, the quote functions less as a serious theological claim than as a jab at simplistic rationalizations in debates about diet and morality.




