Unplugged Christians living off the grid

Summer Lake, Oregon (CNN) -- As the sun rises, cool blues and grays begin their slow transition to glowing golds and ambers. Like a child's pop-up book, dimension is added and a valley is transformed.

To look upon this beauty in the western U.S. state of Oregon is to understand what people mean when they say this is God's country, and that's exactly why Brother Gregory lives here.

He is part of a wider movement of conservative Christians who are choosing to live their lives on the edge of society, unplugged from civilization as much as they can, living under basic biblical principles.

Brother Gregory -- the "Brother" is more of a nickname than an occupational title -- ministers from the Oregon desert where he lives with his wife, some of his grown children and grandchildren.

Like other conservative Christians in this growing movement, Brother Gregory believes that Christianity has strayed too far from its roots, and has given its role in people's lives over to the government -- as with welfare programs or health care.

"We are not living off the grid as much as we are creating a new grid, a more wholesome grid," he said.

"We are following a different path that we think is healthier, promotes better families, and better communities."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/27/christians.unplugged/

Let's just hope that the next CNN story isn't about some deep end that these people have fallen into.

enjoy a peaceful, long life in the right place.

One might still find Shangri-La if one searches.

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"Making the government an idol is the problem. That's what stands in the way of Christian sanctification," Humphrey says. "It's hands off mainly things like our family, our children, our bodies, our health, and even our money, the fruits of our labor. These don't belong to government."

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Government exists precisely because these cretins firmly believe their charity towards others is wasted on anyone other than the "right sort" of folks. A little less history of stable government and this guy would have a turban and an AK-47 to back up that statement as well. One man's "off the grid" is another man's Madrassas, training a generation of haters to destabilize society.

Why, God, am I stuck with fools like this surrounding me?

Or will they trade their chickens for health care.

...I want to puke (it's right up there with the term "family values"). I do, however, salute these Christianoids for their consequential attitude and I wish they'd all go off somewhere and live in a cave. Their cancer has eaten away enough of the integrity of our Constitution and our country.