RE: The Holistic Church: An Idea Explored
Y'all need to get out and about a weeny bit more. :) In Thailand the temple gardens are amazing - large meditation gardens, massive trees, herbs and vegetables, cool places for travelers to relax & enjoy, and blessed with fruit trees to feed to poor people round about. Temples here ARE living communities, usually with chickens wandering about and with a beautiful sense of spirit meets earth. The monks sweep and tend the gardens as meditation, which is as it should be.
But yes, I love your vision for juicing up the barren land around western churches. Actually, only half of them should become permaculture farms. The other half should be sold and the money used to redress the many abuses supported and condoned by the church. But that's maybe for discussion in another post. ;)
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Can't say I disagree about scrapping half the churches lol there's a whole lot of them, and I do find it excessive. That's a lot of property that could be used productively as a school or farm or other business. It would bring people more together too, not being divided up into seventeen churches (who are likely at each other's throats over doctrinal minutiae) on Sunday!
As for the temples you describe, that sounds like a good model! Gardens are really great places for prayer and meditation.
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