Beet
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« on: September 10, 2013, 10:27:17 PM » |
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1) This is why Im against fecundism as a legal matter.
2) This is not new; the Quiverfull movement, much closer abreast to Evangelicals than either Haredim or Mormons, has been trying this since the 1990s.
3) Easier said than done! The Haredim have their own schools and economies; legal system, police, means of production, doctrines of separation. they have a great tolerance for living in poverty and isolation. One does not just pick up and recreate all of these habits and institutions with the clap of the hands.
4) The Haredim are motivated by more than winning "the culture war"; if anything, such is alien to them. Their behavior is self contained and not directed at some outside ends, else it would have collapsed long ago. No one is idealistic enough to impale himself for generations on end on the spike of asceticism for the sake of a Baby Boomer fiction; others is a matter of ethno religious identity as well as a discourse genuinely centered on their religion as a thing in itself.
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