I was just toodling over at the 700Club site, which I frequent for entertainment value and to check my blood pressure from time to time. The concept is frightening: to do God's will, one must have lots and lots of children so that they can all grow up to vote and fulfill His plan. Since us libruls are getting married and having fewer children later in life, they're pretty sure this is a sure fire thing. Unfortunately, they may be right. Excerpts to follow...
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Ranging in age from two to 21, the Hurd family represents what some are calling a new demographic movement - Natalism.
Father Hurd says, "I think that's what God commands us to do -- to raise them to think biblically, and to see the world biblically. They're going to vote biblically. They're going to go out into society, and impact culture in a very few generations. It's already happening. Even in our family we have three voters, so we have three registered voters -- voting children, and it's just going to keep increasing."
And if you are looking for a great place to raise big families, Davis says you cannot beat the lifestyle in places like McKinney [Texas].
According to the Web site realtor.com, a $100,000 salary in liberal Manhattan buys you only as much as a $38,000 salary in conservative Pinehurst, North Carolina. Likewise, a couple working in San Francisco earning $100,000 between them can afford just as much in Cedar City, Utah if the husband finds a $44,000 a year job, and then mom can stay home with the kids!
For Natalists like the Husteds, it is not just about issues like lower taxes. It is about attitudes, and priorities like home schooling and church attendance. And it is about what really is most important in life to them, preparing their children for the future.
Melissa said, "We are fighting a war, and it is cultural, but it is also spiritual in nature. We look at the world with a different mindset. We think generationally. We're not going to win this culture war in our generation, but God is building his arm when you see your little four-year-old running around and putting things in VCRs and such as that. Those are the little soldiers and we're going to grow them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and they will be the soldiers of the next generation who will fight the, you know, the coming hostilities that are apparent even now, toward Christianity."