Gotta watch out for the perverted, defiled crops! The horror!
So much emphasis on the physical while the spiritual was completely ignored.......
Did you know that one of Satan's biggest deceptions against humanity was cross-breeding watermelons and cucumbers?
In its never-ending need to control church members lives, Herbert Armstrong also laid down rules on how to raise watermelons.
In the early years of the church a large percentages of the members had their own gardens and grew their own food. These people were not idiots and knew how to grow produce. That made no difference though to the well-kept boys in Pasadena who rarely dirtied their hands or had callouses from hard work. It was so easy to read some books and then tell the members what to do.
Ultimately though, this went far deeper than watermelons.
In thinly veiled race-based comments, church embers were told not to breed hybrids, whether in family life or in their gardens.
Only quality people keep their produce pure...hint, hint.
graphic courtesy of SHT