You’re absolutely spot on here and I’m grateful to hear words put to something I have felt but haven’t been able to articulate.
I am the oldest of nine in a (relatively small) quiverfull family. It is horrifying but not surprising to hear so much of the rhetoric I grew up with be now part of the mainstream conversation. This was the plan all along, which you know.
They’ve been turning wombs into weapons for decades, Psalm 127 as battle plan and nurseries as armories. The danger isn’t that Heritage just got weird, it’s that we kept calling it fringe while they trained congregations to see children as arrows in a culture war. Blessed be the ones who see through the baby propaganda and name it for what it is: conscription in a holy war.
You’re absolutely spot on here and I’m grateful to hear words put to something I have felt but haven’t been able to articulate.
I am the oldest of nine in a (relatively small) quiverfull family. It is horrifying but not surprising to hear so much of the rhetoric I grew up with be now part of the mainstream conversation. This was the plan all along, which you know.
Thank you for your work!
Oh, Tia. This is so achingly true. It frustrates me to no end as a journalist and a pastor. Thank you for raising this truth.
They’ve been turning wombs into weapons for decades, Psalm 127 as battle plan and nurseries as armories. The danger isn’t that Heritage just got weird, it’s that we kept calling it fringe while they trained congregations to see children as arrows in a culture war. Blessed be the ones who see through the baby propaganda and name it for what it is: conscription in a holy war.
Wow, the mask is slipping off now!