This afternoon I had coffee at the Freehold Senior Citizen Center. A nice lady came up and asked, "Mayor, Des Moines has 40,000 people at its Farmers Market. Why don't we have one here in Freehold?"
The question tested my patience. I tried not to sound annoyed that she and so many others do not understand the link between these popular Farmers' Markets and paganism.
Gathering for pagan ceremonies and selling farm produce started after Jesus founded Christianity. Pagans have been trying to compete with Christians ever since. Farmers Markets have one purpose, worshipping the land and the vegetables. Close to this practice of selling vegetables is that of homerism.
Christianity has it own system for producing and distribution food. It is capitalism. Food is produced on large corporate farms with irrigation, fertilizers and pesticides. We buy the food in huge happy supermarkets.
I hope I explained properly to the nice lady why we will not have a Farmers Market in Freehold and why I hope Freehold residents are not among the 40,000 in downtown Des Moines celebrating paganism.
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