Around the world, however, we know the consequences of this: women are burdened, pushed back and die.  Whenever they are given educational and societal opportunities, women seek to limit childbearing.  And it is also necessary to living healthy adult lives themselves.

But I'm sure the Southern Baptists hold up the Shakers as an example of what can happen to the unfruitful.

by cyncooper on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 12:54:37 PM EST

(from a Dark Christianity post)
http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=6020
http://www.henryinstitute.org/commentary/read.php?article=20050601b (from the horse's mouth himself)

The senior VP for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (which has been quite thoroughly turned dominionist by Al Mohler and his cronies) states flat out he's training his kids to be little sociopathic monsters:

Moore said a reader objected to an earlier column mentioning he took his two young sons to see "Stars War Episode III: Revenge of the Sith," because the film is "way too violent for children."

Moore went on to say it is only the second movie the boys had ever seen.

"One was a tender, touching Christmas movie about a little boy who discovers that Christmas is all about believing in the miracles within," he said. "The second was a cartoonishly violent movie in which men go face-to-face with evil aliens; often chopping off limbs in the heat of battle."

Moore went on to quip that he repents of "taking them to the Christmas film."

"This is because of my overall philosophy of childrearing," he explained. "I am aiming to raise up violent sons."

"I am not seeking to raise sons who are violent in the amoral, pagan sense of contemporary teenagers playing `Grand Theft Auto' video games or carjacking motorists," he explained. "I want them to be more violent than that."

"I want them to understand that the Christian life is not a Hallmark Channel version of baptized sentimentality," he continued. "Instead, it is a cosmic battle between an evil dragon and the child of the woman, an ancient warfare that now includes all who belong to the Child of the Promise (Rev 12)."

Sadly, this is not uncommon in dominionist households.  They quite literally are instructing kids to be violent because in their mind they're breeding "Christian Soldiers".

And these are also the folks largely responsible for "Justice Sunday" and "Justice Sunday II" (Highview Baptist in Louisville is Al Mohler's church, and essentially the "home church" for the seminary)...

And yes, this style of childrearing is increasingly common--that's why there is a huge push for dominionist "homeschooling"correspondence-schooling programs, including Patrick Henry College (whose entire purpose is to literally train dominionist youth--insulated from birth--in either legal or political fields for dominionist causes).  They are seeing their kids, quite literally, as /cannon fodder for God.

And that's just in the SBC, folks--it's even worse in the pente and charismatic dominionist groups.  (I've written on the Pearls and their promotion of beating kids as young as seven months old because they believe all kids are possessed by "spirits of rebellion".)

by dogemperor on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 01:06:18 PM EST

Also, Japan is currently developing some very helpful little robots that can move like humans, respond to voice commands, and perform a number of human task. It won't take long for this technology to develop to the point that these robots will be able to replace many blue collar jobs, and eventually many white collar workers as well. Since capitalist always seek greater efficiencies regardless of the human factors they will seek to replace as many of their human workforce as possible with these new smart robots (androids). What are the wealthy capitalist going to do with 12 billion unemployed people who's value is zero and who are using up limited resources?

President Bush has one possible cure to our population problems that he has made evident through his "help the rich and screw everyone else" policies. The Southern Baptist are spreading the wrong message; nothing new there. And the media doesn't want to scare us into not consuming as much of the products they are trying to sell us.

The real solutions include education, family planning services, pro-choice laws, tax incentives, limits on C02 emissions, green energy alternatives, rationing, tougher regulations, and government leaders who have some morals, common sense, and international respect.  

 

by Chris Fick on Wed Dec 14, 2005 at 10:36:02 PM EST

It is obvious that the rationalization of unrestrained breeding is nothing more than an excuse to justify unrestrained sexual appetites.  I'm quite serious about this.  

Think of it: the sin of lust is magically transformed into a virtue by way of serving a purportedly "higher goal."  Suddenly guilt is absolved and the advocates of this position are free to do what they've secretly wanted to do forever but couldn't admit.  What a perfect way of resolving cognitive dissonance, and how perfectly self-serving.  

The rest of it is pure Darwin: out-breed everyone else.  That would be a grand irony if it weren't so clearly linked with the twisted historic agenda of racial superiority.  

by gg on Thu Dec 15, 2005 at 12:41:57 AM EST