> I think we also see some of this in Christian stuff. I feel like Christians like Isaiah 11:6's "the lion will lie down with the lamb" (yes, I know that techni

> I think we also see some of this in Christian stuff. I feel like Christians like Isaiah 11:6's "the lion will lie down with the lamb" (yes, I know that technically that's not quite the animals in the text, but it is how I often hear it said by English-language Christians). I think the idea that predators might not be predators in some world-to-come isn't something that has to be creatively reinterpreted. There's sort of a verse that deals with it. The context is in eating meat sacrificed to idols, aka immoral meat. It's not clear on what that means, where it's eating meat in a ceremonial service or buying meat in the marketplace that was resold donations to a pagan temple. Romans 14: 1-9 >>Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person's faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. Who are you to judge someone else's servant? >>To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand. One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living. I'm not Christian any more, but generally the spirit is more "your brother needs to be vegan, don't convert him or argue with him and do your best to strengthen his faith." Each person must do what he feels God has commanded him to do in his own way. The new heaven and new earth is a radically different experience. Its not just lion laying down with lamb, its that "we shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, and be like the angels" which Jesus said in answer to people disbelieving in a ressurection. It's a total break from humanity in a sense, and trying to emulate it has led to a lot of cults engaging in self-destructive behavior.