[asa] Organic farming article

I found this article very interesting :)

http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/23143

There were a couple of lines in particular that I was
surprised at:

"And yet, like the Amish and Mennonites before them,
they have chosen a lifestyle that other conservative
Christians in the United States might dismiss as
counter-culture.

"Humanistic thinking is we want to have control over
everything. We want to just come in and poison these
bugs," patriarch Mike Hale said of the more usual
approach to food and farming.

"But because we're organic we can't poison bugs and
we're dependent on the Lord," he said, as chickens
clucked nearby and a rooster crowed. "There's an
aspect that we trust the Lord to take care of
things.""

The first point of surprise--that the adoption of a
"counter-culture" approach to life would be viewed as
atypical of Christianity....my understanding of the
Gospel has always been that it will always tend to set
us apart from the world because the world does not
know Him....seems as though we may be blending in too
much?

The second point of interest--their justification of
organic farming practices as an expression of their
trust in God, and their characterization of
non-organic practices as humanistic because it's about
control. I've never heard this argument in the context
of organic farming practices before....

Good food for thought! (no pun intended :) )

In Christ,
Christine

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Received on Tue Sep 18 08:53:19 2007