>But the overall Scriptural ideal is pretty clear: agriculture and domesticated
>livestock is the ideal society; a pretty clear contrast to the Paleodiet
>ideal.

I'm afraid we have to disagree here.

What's clear to me is that scripturally, agriculture is one of the
profoundest curses God laid on Man after the fall.  Working the fields and
eating bread is listed right next to the pain of childbirth as what God did
to Man as punishment for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.  After
that I have seen no evidence in the Bible that God considers an
agricultural society the "ideal" society for anybody but the Jews, as there
is nothing to really indicate that anybody but the Jews are expected to
follow the dietary laws given later.  And when you hit the New Testament of
Christianity, those dietary expectations all thrown onto the ash heap
anyway.

Today, theologically, you can make the argument that agriculture is still
required of orthodox Jews, but I don't think you can reasonably argue that
the Bible suggests that such a lifestyle is required or even desirable for
anyone else.  And for Christians it's all doubly irrelevent as Christians
are forgiven for original sin and are no longer required to work the fields
or follow the Jewish dietary laws.  (Of course there's still that pain of
childbirth thing, but we do have drugs for that now, don't we?  :-)

For today's orthodox Jews, a hunter/gatherer diet is out, but then, I would
have to think that anyone of orthodox Jewish extraction might not be
well-suited to such a diet anyway.  (For converts, keeping kosher might be
a health problem, but...)  But then modern Jews, except for the strict
orthodox faith, have changed what they believe God wants of them too, so...

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