Break Free From Your Chains

While getting ready for work this morning, we listened to a story on NPR about the psychotic Quiverfull movement. First we heard from Kelly and Jeff Swanson:

Kelly says that she and Jeff decided that God knew how many children they could handle.

“We just started thinking, ‘God is sovereign over life and death. God opens and closes the womb,’ ” Kelly says.

Then came “Nancy Campbell, a leader of the Quiverfull movement and author of Be Fruitful and Multiply“:

“The womb is such a powerful weapon; it’s a weapon against the enemy,” Campbell says.

Campbell has 35 grandchildren. She and her husband stopped at six kids, and it is her great regret.

“I think, help! Imagine if we had had more of these children!” Campbell says, adding, “My greatest impact is through my children. The more children I have, the more ability I have to impact the world for God.”

A Christian God, that is. Campbell says if believers don’t starting reproducing in large numbers, biblical Christianity will lose its voice.

“We look across the Islamic world and we see that they are outnumbering us in their family size, and they are in many places and many countries taking over those nations, without a jihad, just by multiplication,” Campbell says.

Okay, first there is the irritatingly de-humanizing fact that these people are admittedly having lots of children because they plan to indoctrinate them with their religion—essentially treating their children like carrier monkeys for an ideological virus. But then the Christian God treats people like pawns, too. (Oh, sure, he considers the sparrows, but only for their strategic purposes. You, too, pilgrim.)

But then there is the breathtaking stupidity that Mary caught even before I did. She said (I’m paraphrasing): “So God is sovereign enough to know how many kids they can have, but not sovereign enough to protect Christianity from Islam?”

The people who really need protecting here are all those kids being churned out with the express intention that they never have a critical thought about religion, or make their own decisions about what they believe, but simply carry the message of their parents’ religion to others. These lunatics treat their children’s minds like warheads and their children’s lives like missiles.

If you are one of those children, and you are lucky enough to be reading this, then I suggest that you pack your bags, run for your life, and stop at a bookstore along the way. Make your own decisions. If, after making your own independent inquiry into life, you decide that your parents’ religion is the one for you, then go back home. Otherwise, try to improve the world, instead of just spreading your parents’ religion.