"Purity” is a term of relative quantity or proportion.
Pure orange Juice means ”100% orange juice”. Pure greed means someone whose motive for accumulating more than needed is not mixed with any other motives, it is greed and greed alone.
We use the term ”pure evil” to describe psychopathic killers who feel no empathy or remorse.
So ”pure” and ”purity” only means ‘fully” or ”unmixed” or ”completely”.
The term has a common root with the word in latin for ”infant” which is ”puer” from which, in English, we get the adjective ”puerile” ... as in ”his behaviour was puerile” .
The antonym might be, in certain contexts, ”adult”
I agree the BKs beliefs are puerile and followers become infantilised. A long way from spiritual maturity.
As to diet, I have been vegetarian for many decades but I'll say vegetarianism (i.e. abstinence from eating the flesh of animals) is not ”better” and many vegetarians are in fact worse people than many other people in the world.
In fact, if one practices vegetarianism thinking it makes them a better person ... well, they've just became even more trapped in their ego.
Pure orange Juice means ”100% orange juice”. Pure greed means someone whose motive for accumulating more than needed is not mixed with any other motives, it is greed and greed alone.
We use the term ”pure evil” to describe psychopathic killers who feel no empathy or remorse.
So ”pure” and ”purity” only means ‘fully” or ”unmixed” or ”completely”.
The term has a common root with the word in latin for ”infant” which is ”puer” from which, in English, we get the adjective ”puerile” ... as in ”his behaviour was puerile” .
The antonym might be, in certain contexts, ”adult”
adult: from Latin adultus "grown up, mature, ripe," past participle of adolescere "grow up, mature" (see adolescent).
I agree the BKs beliefs are puerile and followers become infantilised. A long way from spiritual maturity.
As to diet, I have been vegetarian for many decades but I'll say vegetarianism (i.e. abstinence from eating the flesh of animals) is not ”better” and many vegetarians are in fact worse people than many other people in the world.
In fact, if one practices vegetarianism thinking it makes them a better person ... well, they've just became even more trapped in their ego.