memes, or genes...

[Bruce Bostwick]

On Jul 26, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Doug Pensinger wrote:

> William  wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there no limit to the depraved wickedness of the religionists?
>>
>> What's wicked about bringing children into the world that you have  
>> the
> resources to support and nurture?
>
> Doug


If that were their motivation, I'd agree.  But at 8-10 or more per  
family, and with the fundamentalist neopentecostal homeschooling those  
kids receive, they'll be able to elect their own theocrats to office  
at virtually every level of our government in about 30-40 more years  
or so.  Whether that triggers another Dark Age before we reach near- 
total industrial and economic collapse is hard to say, but this  
movement in particular has been playing the long game for close to 100  
years (or more, depending on the definition of where it began), and  
this is one of their many long-term strategies.

"People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what  
to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their  
heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome." -- River Tam,  
"Serenity"