Below is a letter from Tom Ray about the QuiverFull Movement that will be useful in our discussion about Jesus Camp.

David:

Concerning the next meetup, and the theme:

"take over the US as part of "Gods Army"."

I think the group should also be aware of a similar plan being voiced
by the quiverfull movement:

http://www.quiverfull...

The Message Psalm 127:3-5
Don't you see that children are God's best gift?
the fruit of the womb his generous legacy?
Like a warrior's fistful of arrows
are the children of a vigorous youth.
Oh, how blessed are you parents,
with your quivers full of children!
Your enemies don't stand a chance against you;
you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.

We exalt Jesus Christ as Lord, and acknowledge His headship in all areas of our lives, including fertility. We exist to serve those believers who trust the Lord for family size, and to answer the questions of those seeking truth in this critical area of marriage.

Dedicated to providing encouragement and practical help to those who are striving to raise a large and growing, godly family in today's world!

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.

God, as the "Great Physician" and sole "Birth Controller," opens and closes the womb on a case-by-case basis. Women's attempts to control their own bodies - the Lord's temple - are a seizure of divine power.

for Christian couples who eagerly accept their children as blessings from God and eschew birth control, natural family planning and sterilization.

Quiverfull mothers think of their children as no mere movement but as an army they're building for God.

Quiverfull women are more than mothers. They're domestic warriors in the battle against what they see as forty years of destruction wrought by women's liberation: contraception, women's careers, abortion, divorce, homosexuality and child abuse, in that order.

part of a long-term plan to win the culture war "demographically."

Christians should fight abortion by demonstrating that children are an "unqualified blessing" by having as many as God gives them. Only a determination among Christian women to take up their submissive, motherly roles with a "military air" and become "maternal missionaries" will lead the Christian army to victory... turning back the tide on a society gone wrong by populating the world with right-thinking Christians.

Population is a preoccupation for many Quiverfull believers, who trade statistics on the falling white birthrate in European countries like Germany and France. Every ethnic conflict becomes evidence for their worldview: Muslim riots in France, Latino immigration in California, Sharia law in Canada. The motivations aren't always racist, but the subtext of "race suicide" is often there.

"Some people think that what I'm doing - having eleven children - is wrong. I don't really get into that much. The Bible says 'be fruitful and multiply.' That's my belief system. They don't believe in God, so they think we have to conserve what we have. But in my belief system, He's going to give us a new earth." Overpopulation isn't a problem in a universe where God promises a clean global slate.
a coming "demographic divide," wherein fecund red staters will far outnumber barren blue state liberals

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.

Carlson wants to construct a secular, social-policy case for natalism based on the importance of large families to sustaining a Social Security system crippled by childless "free riders."

Tom Ray