If
folks in the South and around the world want to live a life free of
entanglements with the system of the God-, Orthodox Church-, and tradition-hating bankster-science-technology-industry
corporate Elite, a good place to start is with food.
It
is certainly essential to turn away from the poisons of the McDonald’s, Monsanto’s, DuPont’s,
etc. of the world.
But
it is also just as needful for us to learn again to grow our own food, using
methods that are in harmony with the creation (Wendell Berry), so that we do not become thralls
of such evil men again in æftertimes. It
will require some effort, some rejection of comfort, but such things are more
consistent with a Christian life of repentance than the easy, lazy life of
American consumerism.
One
does not need the ‘40 acres and a mule’, however. Small plots of land can be very
productive. One family in southern California is producing 6,000
pounds of food each year on 1/10th of an acre of land.
(Photo
from NaturalSociety story just
above.)
And
not only is such food and farming better for the health of people and land and
other living creatures, but it also opens the possibility for us to recover
something else we have forgotten, a use for the creation that God intended that
has all but disappeared from sight in industrial society. That use, as Fr Dumitru Staniloae tells us in
Volume 2 of his Orthodox dogmatic theology series, The Experience of God, is to begin a tway-speech of love with our
neighbors by giving the food we grow as gifts to them (or the crafts we make
from trees, and so on).
Furthermore,
Fr Dumitru says, as we contemplate þe meaning of each thing God has made, the
creation will also help us to have a dialogue of love with God the Most Holy
Trinity, our Creator.
All
the material is there for us.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Joel%20Salatin
It
is time we began.
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