Garden-City
David Hegeman has responded to Chad Degenhart's post.
"I want to say for the record that I state quite clearly that I do state in Plowing that the Garden of Eden is paradise. This does not mean that it is impossible for something good and perfect to reach an even higher (or different) state of perfection. (Didn't Jesus Christ grow and mature?) God gave men and women the privilage of embellishing (="dress") and uncovering the potentialities invested in the original. It is part of the imago dei."
David Hegeman has responded to Chad Degenhart's post.
"I want to say for the record that I state quite clearly that I do state in Plowing that the Garden of Eden is paradise. This does not mean that it is impossible for something good and perfect to reach an even higher (or different) state of perfection. (Didn't Jesus Christ grow and mature?) God gave men and women the privilage of embellishing (="dress") and uncovering the potentialities invested in the original. It is part of the imago dei."
posted by trawlerman at 11:29 PM
1 Comments:
John,
He didn't say much. I think "biblical Urbanism" tends to ignore some important things. As Chad has pointed out before, the cities(even the ones with hanging plants and parks) are built on usury. Idustrialism can only be advanced by those who ignore God's law as it pertains to money and usury. I could go on, but I'll let you chew on that.
Scott Terry | Homepage | 04.19.05 - 6:28 pm | #
Gravatar I've chewed on it, and I spit it out like stale terbacca.
I don't have any solid facts to offer, but I'd imagine that most modern farms are no less based on a system of usury than many modern "industrial centers."
I could easily change Degenhart's words to read "The big [farms] were made possible through the magic of usury, fiat currency, and fractional reserve banking."
(For the record, I've always been against usury - at least since I read Dante's Inferno at a young age).
Should I argue against agrarianism because of this modern (Industrial, I might add) distortion of farming and agrarianism? (rhetorical, obviously - you know that I am very much the urban agrarian). Just because there are bad farms does not mean that agrarian life is wrong. Just because there are bad cities does not mean that urban life is wrong.
"Biblical urbanism" does not equal "Industrialism." I don't know why you'd conclude such. Yes, there is a tension between industrial and agrarian, but there does not need to be between urban and agrarian.
Anyhow, I can't take your arguments seriously so long as you're using a computer to communicate.
Do you think that the computer that you have on your desk was created or produced by a farmer?
Do you think that there were computers in the Garden of Eden? Did the perfect model of agrarian culture found somewhere in the bible happen to include an internet connection? Or is your computer a product of modern, technological, industrial (ooh, I said it) heresy?
Trawlerman | Homepage | 04.19.05 - 10:44 pm | #
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