Reply #12: It's the rise of facism. [View All]

[Occupy_2012]

There's another set of threads here somewhere about the Duggars and their 20 children. Most of the posts were about how Mrs. Duggar is sick, crazy, addicted to babies or whatever. I researched the "Quiverful" cult (it's a cult, people), and found that we really have no idea at all what Mrs. Duggar thinks about any of this, becasue she's been brainwashed since birth to think she is not allowed to say one single word that disagrees with her husband. For all we know, she hates kids and wishes they'd all drop dead, that's how totalitarian her religion is.

Sadly, her husband doesn't have much more freedom. Their religion teaches that whenever a couple has a problem, they don't settle it amongst themselves, they haul in the church elders to tell them what to do. Every single argument if "necessary." They are all home-schooled to reinforce this totalitarian "no choices" belief.

I've been checking out Dominionism and FDLS (Fundamentalist, polygamous Mormon offshoot). Also home-schooled and isolated. I don't know when this home-schooling stuff started, but now there's badly educated home-schooled parents "quoting" the Bible, saying God doesn't value education and parents shouldn't worry about educating children, they should make missionaries out of them and tell them to reproduce as much as possible. These barely educated parents are doing a half-assed job of educating kids who will do an even worse job of educating their kids. Many have such extreme religious beliefs that it won't be long before girls aren't taught to read. They are already taught that God doesn't want them to vote, go to college, or own property. Education is "wasted" on women because they are just going to have litters of babies anyway. Some have been told women aren't allowed to have lawyers, and to them, divorce is a ticket straight to hell.

They appear to know nothing about actual risks of childbirth, are lied to and told etopic pregnancies may be safe (no), and told if they can't carry a baby to term it's their fault, so they have no right to "murder" a baby for their own failure, even to save their own lives. It's in the Bible (not).

People are extremely underestimating the danger of tens of thousands, if not millions, of education-hating Fundamentalists voting, running for office, and as we've seen, acting like an angry mob.

Everything about these religions teaches anger intolerance and violence. From approving of beating your wives and kids, to "breaking the spirit" of children and even pets by beating them into submission, to "submissive" wives being the only kind that aren't going to hell. They are teaching people to be obedient and unquestioning, and robbing them of any opportunity to know another point of view. They are even taught marrying a man of different beliefs condemns the entire family to hell since the husband and father's virtue determines whether the wife and children will go to heaven. Marriage is described as an act of "violence in a velvet glove," a potential wife as a "foe," and getting a woman and her family to agree to marriage as a "war" that separates a woman from all family, friends and even her dog.

People always ask, how did the Nazis rise to power? By having an ignorant, UNQUESTIONING, intolerant mob for a population. These mob audiences at the debates should scare you even more than the candidates. They have been trained for generations to be capable of believing anything, as long as it's wrapped in the cloak of "Christianity." I fear there's a tipping point coming not very far down the road.

We need to stop home-schooling if we want to save our democracy, and force these people's children to get some exposure to other points of view. Sorry, sane home-schoolers, but it's not all about you.