Quiverfull christian baby machines

[downbeatplumb]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22526252

Quiverfull families tend to believe in male headship - the principle, also derived from the Bible, that men should lead households.

Feminists are perhaps the fiercest critics of the budding Quiverfull movement.

They accuse it of trying to undo the equality and freedom won for women over decades of struggle, and claim that the idea of automatic male leadership is anachronistic.

But advocates say their approach to family life is both authentically Christian, and the best training for children to take on what he sees as the moral decay afflicting American society.

[Minimalist]

....Can't....Fucking....Resist.....

[Raven]

This is some seriously scary stuff. It's not new to me, it has been around for awhile. These fundies are wonderfully sneaky and insidious. I'm telling you, these guys make Joseph Geobbels look like an amateur. They'll get their message across any kind of way that they can. And they don't mind waiting. So now they're going to inundate us with a mob of raving Xtian loonie warriors in our old age to take over and prepare for the end-times. Yay!


This is another informative article on what's happening here in the US re: these religious wackjobs.
http://www.alternet.org/bizarre-christia...paging=off

The thing that gets me most upset is how they just don't give a damn what happens to the woman. If she dies in childbirth, so what. It was God's plan, I guess.

Speaking in regard to Todd Akin's recent "legitimate rape" and Paul Ryan's rape as a "method of conception" remarks, Amanda Marcotte explains the fundamentalist mentality that, "the fact that someone can make a baby means that making babies is what she is for. ... Women are among an array of objects to be used. The refrigerator is for storing food. The bookshelf is for holding books. The woman is for making babies. You no more give her a choice in the matter than you would give your refrigerator veto power over what food it holds because it didn’t like your method of shopping."

-from the article

I don't know about you, but I find this to be positively dehumanizing.

[NoraBrimstone]

These people are so irresponsible. It's not like years ago when people would have a shitload of kids in the hope that a few would survive. For example, my Grandmother was one of 14 kids but only 7 reached the age of 10. Most children grow up now. With a growing global population, people having a lot of kids are bringing us closer and closer to the time where something will have to be done about the number of people living on Earth. I know we are a few generations away from there being a big population issue, but we can delay it by not allowing people to have ridiculous numbers of kids. 4 would be a geneous limit, imo.

If people feel the need to have a massive family, there are a lot of children in care who need loving families to adopt them.

[Minimalist]

Raven, they are merely sick motherfuckers.

[Raven]

Raven, they are merely sick motherfuckers.

They are certainly not healthy. You are right about that. The thing is that all those little kids are going to be programmed to think that way. I know from my own experience that getting out from under religious propagandizing all your childhood long is no mean feat. And the loons who propagate this nonsense get a free pass because of the place we've mistakenly put religious belief in our society no matter how detrimental it may be. Were anyone to try and go against this quiverfull nonsense in any kind of mainstream public forum you would have all those fundies yowling to the heavens about how they are once again being persecuted for being Xtians.

[Cato]

[Faith No More]

There's nothing more dangerous than a person that willingly engages in detrimental behavior with the belief that god will keep them safe.

I can only imagine that if there is a god up there watching, he's thinking to himself, "Take some responsibility for yourselves, for fuck's sake!"

[Minimalist]

The thing is that all those little kids are going to be programmed to think that way.

Fortunately, lots of kids rebel against this kind of horseshit upgringing.

[Esquilax]

Speaking in regard to Todd Akin's recent "legitimate rape" and Paul Ryan's rape as a "method of conception" remarks, Amanda Marcotte explains the fundamentalist mentality that, "the fact that someone can make a baby means that making babies is what she is for. ... Women are among an array of objects to be used. The refrigerator is for storing food. The bookshelf is for holding books. The woman is for making babies. You no more give her a choice in the matter than you would give your refrigerator veto power over what food it holds because it didn’t like your method of shopping."

-from the article

I don't know about you, but I find this to be positively dehumanizing.

Given that logic, that your ability to make something determines your purpose in life, I'd imagine all those fundamentalists spend a lot of time on the toilet...