What Chip said was "God is vegetarian." He shouted it across State Street, "The longer you are vegetarian, the closer you get to God." I stopped to take a good look at him. He took most of the bench with his size, and his majestic white beard was right out of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Yet I did not buy the theological argument. It was a lure, I knew it. And I decided to fall for it, getting closer to see what he had to say.