Quiverfull

Many years ago when I was working bees in Texas, a woman started a friendly discussion with me and soon she asked me if I had any children. I answered that I did not and she grew very agitated and said that it was the duty of white people to procreate or else the "Niggers would take over the US." This idea of populating the world with your own kind has been encouraged by some religions like Catholics, Mormons, and Muslims sometimes despite a lack of a promising future for them. A new group working on becoming a majority force is the group who call themselves and their belief system "Quiverfull."

They borrow their name from Psalm 127: "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate." Quiverfull mothers think of their children as no mere movement but as an army they're building for God.
Quiverfull parents try to have upwards of six children. They home-school their families, attend fundamentalist churches and follow biblical guidelines of male headship--"Father knows best"--and female submissiveness. They refuse any attempt to regulate pregnancy.

But if just 8 million American Christian couples began supplying more "arrows for the war" by having six children or more, they propose, the Christian-right ranks could rise to 550 million within a century ("assuming Christ does not return before then"). They like to ponder the spiritual victory that such numbers could bring: both houses of Congress and the majority of state governor's mansions filled by Christians; universities that embrace creationism; sinful cities reclaimed for the faithful; and the swift blows dealt to companies that offend Christian sensibilities.

Read the Nation article here .