Thanks for the link to my blog which, itself, is a link to yet another blog. A quick comment, though, where you say:

One thing to consider, when you leave Babylon behind, you also leave Babylon’s healthcare and other comforts.

What the author of the essay actually notes is this:

…Your escape from Babylon begins when you can say, “No, I have a choice. Oh, I can dine around Babylon’s table if I choose, but if the Babyonian terms and conditions are odious, then I don’t have to.”

So, the author would say (and I would concur) that one COULD choose to take some part in Babylon’s health care and “other comforts” as long as doing so didn’t violate one’s sense of morality.

For example, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in exile in the literal Babylon could and did choose to take part at Babylon’s table, eating what vegetables they could in good faith. BUT, they also had the ability and guts to make the choice to stand AGAINST Babylon when it violated their faith traditions.

The author would say that they might choose at times to buy from a farmer’s market or even to go to Kroger. But by setting their life up independently, they could also choose NOT to go to Kroger, if they decided that going to Kroger was encouraging “sinful” or oppressive behavior/lifestyles.

for what it’s worth…