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Taking the Message of the Puritans into the Future
This is an interesting video. The idea of withdrawing from the world as thinking we are more holy for doing so is one that draws my attention to relationships we have established in the Amish community, as is religionizing the 16th century farm life of the Puritans. I do have one issue with taking the message of the Puritans into the future, namely, their puritan hope of postmillennialism, but, that is a topic for another day.
Oh, for the record, there is absolutely nothing wrong with raising chickens, or an agrarian lifestyle, per se. It is quite biblical actually. Just thought I’d, you know, throw that in there.
By contrast, this appears to be an argument in favor of industrial specialization and keeping up with modern fads/fashion. Of course, there isn’t anything in scripture which freezes the 16th century and points to it as the model for for all Christians to follow, but the 16th century is only one of fifty-nine centuries (give or take) in which human beings possessed the skills necessary for basic survival without the just in time provision of industrialism and specialization. It is only in the past 100 years that man has become so dependent on the unbelieving capitalist system that they have rendered themselves completely void of any kind of practical skills or trades with an application beyond that which is entirely dependent upon the grid.
Granted, not all have been called to turn their backs on the comforts of modern living for a traditional, agrarian lifestyle but to trivialize it as some type of “Little House on the Prairie”-inspired display of legalism is short-sighted at best.