tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post2005160728294010288..comments2023-12-25T01:24:48.957-05:00Comments on Republic of Gilead: Pastor Waxes Poetic About the Amish, Calls for More ChildbearingAhabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-76843769799413182602018-05-06T10:18:11.331-04:002018-05-06T10:18:11.331-04:00Hello Ahab,
I like your blog name, just read The ...Hello Ahab,<br /><br />I like your blog name, just read The Handmaid's Tale for the first time last year. I believe the "c"hurches will start pushing polygamy, and the women will have to follow or no salvation for them. I believe that all this gender role stuff is to break down their resistance to it. Breed them and break them is the Mormon fundies motto.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-59316109504804275122017-03-30T20:32:25.580-04:002017-03-30T20:32:25.580-04:00Infidel -- On one hand, technology would give thes...Infidel -- On one hand, technology would give these children access to information and alternative viewpoints, which would increase the likelihood that they would defect from their natal faith. Look at how it helped Megan Phelps-Roper.<br /><br />On the other hand, people in the Quiverfull/Christian Patriarchy subculture have access to technology, but escaping that world remains challenging.<br /><br />I hope, for the sake of the generations to come, that evangelicals resist these calls to mimic the Amish (and the Quiverfull folks).Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675629709031865432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077809256320470141.post-31768050343347692952017-03-28T08:26:37.923-04:002017-03-28T08:26:37.923-04:00They can't stem the flow of young people decon...They can't stem the flow of young people deconverting and becoming secular unless they achieve the same degree of insulation from outside influences as the Amish have, which means giving up modern technology. Not very plausible. As long as the influences of "the world" have some access, the dreary and half-baked fundamentalist culture can't compete in the long run.<br /><br />The kinds of values and attitudes he's talking about to support religion already exist, more or less, in some Islamic countries, yet those places are still undergoing social change and upheaval as younger people reject frustrating traditional taboos and restrictions.<br /><br />If anything, if the Baptists start hectoring their members to have ridiculously large numbers of kids they don't want and can't afford, it will just drive even more young people away.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com