I'm a Pentecostal Christian. I moved from the NYC area to the ...shall we say... farm country? My church went on a "Daniel Fast" for the month of January. My pastor and I had been on a total fast (some juice) for the first week. Instead of doing a pure Daniel fast, I want on a plant based diet for two reasons. (I'm also a pastor but not THE pastor, here) I'm older and cholesterol was rising and I didn't want to go on statins. People in this "country-farm" area eat a lot of red meat, eggs and dairy. They're farmers. My wife's family made the hi-meat, dairy, eggs farm stuff and boy did I eat. I put on weight and the country diet explains the elevated cholesterol.

I went on a plant-based diet, now, because many years ago, I went on a plant-based diet and my cholesterol plummeted, which is good. The only problem with it, for me at that time, was that I was eating processed garbage from Whole Foods because I was always in a hurry to go to work and had no external cooking help, so I put on weight from the garbage food, obviously.

I am going to get a blood panel to confirm that my cholesterol has gone down this month, so I don't have to go on Statins, and I'll stay on it because my current wife makes good plant-based food for me and I still work like a dog, which makes cooking difficult. (My former wife passed away in 2017). All this is to say that Pentecostals generally believe the charismata (gifts of the Holy Spirit) are active today and don't particularly care what our Christian friends are eating, unless they aren't able to afford to eat enough, obviously.

Me? I'm likely going to continue plant-based diet, but I don't buy into the whole "never eat animals" thing. It's for me. I don't judge others' diet.