On that stupid "god created a farmer" commercial

[screwtape]

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/would-cain-drive-a-dodge/

...But it’s also worth noting, as the Canadian journalist Jeet Heer (@heerjeet) observed on Twitter, what lousy theology the ad articulates. According to the Bible, the first farmer wasn’t a pious caretaker of God’s creation. Rather it was Cain, who is best known for killing his brother.

It’s not clear why God preferred the shepherd Abel’s offering, provoking Cain’s murderous envy. But it does appear that the labor of farming is a punishment for Cain’s crime. Here’s how God describes the condition of the farmer: “When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth” (Genesis 4:12). That’s hardly a ringing endorsement.

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[Graybeard]

The problem is that God didn't make a farmer. In the beginning, Adam just hung around the Garden picking fruit. After the fall, he had no choice but to farm, and both his sons went into farming - again, they had little choice as there were no factories or offices.

And let us not forget that the first murder was committed by a farmer. (But then you can understand someone getting all T-ed off with a vegetarian.)

However, and all that said, that advert is going to play well in those God-fearing agricultural States of the Mid-West. Dodge is going for the conservative Christian vote - just like Reagan did.

[Quesi]

Oh, I think they just mean that God made all of us in His own image.  You know.  God made you.  God made me.  God made a farmer.  God made George W. Bush.  God made Osama bin Laden.  God made Honey Boo boo. 

And God is having a good laugh. 

[Disciple of Sagan]

As soon as I heard that commercial, the 1st thing to pop in to my mind was Genesis 3:17:

<snip> "... cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life"


I guess Paul Harvey must'a been sick at home the day this was covered in Sunday School.

[kcrady]

Also: God only likes the white farmers.  Because they're the ones most likely to buy the ginormous phallic-compensator trucks?

[The Gawd]

The problem is that God didn't make a farmer. In the beginning, Adam just hung around the Garden picking fruit. After the fall, he had no choice but to farm, and both his sons went into farming - again, they had little choice as there were no factories or offices.

And let us not forget that the first murder was committed by a farmer. (But then you can understand someone getting all T-ed off with a vegetarian.)

However, and all that said, that advert is going to play well in those God-fearing agricultural States of the Mid-West. Dodge is going for the conservative Christian vote - just like Reagan did.

if youve read Ismael theres and interesting take on this very topic. I loaned my book out so I cant summarize it right now, but I suggest the book, its a good read.