![]() ![]() It’s not just young people like me growing up in Quiverfull homes feeling stifled by the expectations of conformity who have noticed that there’s a problem. It should be obvious that this creates problems for children in Quiverfull families. If a child is raised properly, the Quiverfull movement holds, that child will become the ideological and lifestyle clone of his or her parents. After all, what good would it be to have arrows that go astray when you shoot them? Part of this metaphor is the idea that arrows are shaped carefully, whittled to the perfect size and balanced just so – and that parents are to do the same with children. It should be obvious that implicit in all of this is the idea that Quiverfull children will share their parents’ beliefs, ideas, and values. And yes, there is dominionist influence at work here. What he means is that they will retake it for Christ by winning converts and influencing the politics, law, education, and culture of our nation. Now Farris doesn’t mean these children will retake America for Christ with guns and tanks. (Or as he also phrases it, “retake America for Christ.”) It’s called a metaphor.Īs an example, Prominent Christian homeschool leader and Quiverfull advocate Michael Farris likes to tell homeschool parents that they are the “Moses generation,” taking their children out of “Egypt” and training them up in “the wilderness,” and that their children will be the “Joshua generation,” who will go out and conquer the land of Canaan. The Quiverfull movement isn’t arming its children or sending them to jihad camps. ![]() The whole “army for Christ” thing isn’t literal. Now there’s quite a bit of military rhetoric involved here. So, have many children because they are a blessing, and because you can shoot them out into the world to influence it for Christ. The Quiverfull movement holds that these arrows, or children, are to be shot out into the world to win converts and make the world more Christian. What do you do with arrows? You shoot them at your prey. Children should never been seen as a burden, but always welcomed with open arms. The more children a man has, the more blessed he is. ![]() First is the idea that children are a blessing and always something to be welcomed. ![]()
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