>Well, I don't want to invest too much in this interpretation of >scripture, but the main point of it is not about food so much as >it is about humanity's general mode of existence in relation to >the other creatures of the world. In Quinn's terms, agriculture >initiated a "declaration of war" in which the world becomes a >place to be conquered and enslaved to needs of an expanding food >supply and human population. Yes, agriculture now and then was/is a deceleration of war. It need not be so. That is what permaculture is about. > >In short, what we eat is a consequence of how we live. yup > >It should be obvious, however, that Quinn doesn't view Genesis as >the word of God, so it would be a mistake to think of him as >proposing a *theology* of the transition from HG to agriculture. >For Quinn, "God's viewpoint" doesn't enter into it at all. On >the contrary, in his philosophy the very idea of God's viewpoint >has been one of the tools that agriculture-based civilization has >used to supplant pre-agricultural societies. Again, a major difference in world view. Oh, well, variety is the spice of life. > >Todd Moody >[log in to unmask]