Posted on 09/02/2009 3:04:24 PM PDT by FredJake
The news is out that Jim Bob and Michelle Dugger are having another child, their 19th. Yes you read correctly, 19 children and their oldest son's wife is expecting their first child. Let us all pray that he follows in his parents footsteps, by having as many children and being as prosperous as his parents. I have heard many people ask the question, "Are they keeping up the household without being on the government dole?" The answer to that question would be that they have never received a dime of taxpayer's money. That is not how they operate. In fact the Duggers run a their own ,business which teaches people how to budget and save by buying only what you can afford among other businesses they own and operate. They built their own home themselves, and had it paid for before it was finished. Right about now many liberals are screaming that the world is already overpopulated and this couple are just adding to the problem. Overpopulated? Is it really?
When it comes to having children, most Christians understand that the Lord opens and closes a woman's womb, and it has been that way from the beginning of time. However, mankind has tried to control that which God said is in His control. The first commandment given to man was, “Be fruitful and multiply Gen 1:22”, and He re-iterated that command again after the Flood when he told Noah, “Be fruitful and multiply Gen 9:7”. Try as I may, I have yet to find any passages where God rescinded that command. What He does tell us, is that if we put our faith in Him, He will supply our needs. Something the Duggers have proved time and time again.
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LOL.
Let the chips fall where they may. However, if somebody ever convinces me of His existence, I may change my tune. So far, many have tried (Catholics, evangelicals, and, in one case, a Muslim), but failed. If they couldn't get me past THAT doubt, you can imagine how I feel about the scriptures AND the "magisterium."
i hope you find what you are looking for , I know many RCC reared who later reject it.
True dat, and I find the most militantly anti-Catholics tend to be ex-Catholics, especially in Europe and Latin America. The northeast and upper midwest are also filled with folks who call themselves "Catholic" who never attend church (except perhaps on Easter and Christmas), are pro-abortion, and have never really been catechized. I have ZERO respect for these people. I myself have been catechized, embraced the Church fully in my late teens, but left in my twenties.
not many Southern Prods can escape the upbringing...lol...or the family’s admonishments..you can make of that what you like
The few that do wind up moving to New York or San Francisco. Besides, if they are dissatisfied with First Baptist, they can always go down the road to New Spring A of G.
I still wonder if southern protestantism will survive the embourgeoisiement (I just made up that word) of southerners. Remember that New England used to be filled with fanatical congregationalist (where do you think the phrase "banned in Boston" came from?), who grew more milquetoast as the region grew more wealthy.
There is a general feeling up in these parts that religious fervor is associated with the poor and the gullible. Many folks of Catholic heritage see the church as a relic of the days of rowhouses and stickball. There are still devout Catholics around, but they are seemingly outnumbered by the "cultural Catholics" and ex-Catholics such as myself.
While I don't think we could handle 19 kids (for one thing all the trouble we had with our first I doubt we could reach half that), it used to be very common to have large families.
My grandpa was the 11th of 12 kids, and turned out ok. Though he said it was weired having a nephew older than you.
Good for you!!
I’m sick of the anti-family attitudes in this country.
My 2 kids each have 4 and the rude remarks are utterly uncalled for!
"Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity". (Ecc 11:10)Then the very last verse of the book of Ecclesiastics he writes,
"For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil". (Ecc 12:14)Up until then he wrote a lot of things that refer to the way men see the world not the way God wants them to see it.
Nice way of dodging the question. I never said you could live off a 1/2 acre garden plot. But if the world is so overpopulated doesn’t it behoove us to use the resources wisely so that others can live? So you’re either dodging or missing the point. The world aint overpopulated.
You are a liberal. I would love to see a zot.
You are hilariously immature.
No I’m not. Agricultural advances always outpace population growth. The Dutch grow foods in greenhouses as do the Israelis. If you really want to get down to it, build a nuke plant that powers desalinization plants and pipe the fresh water to the desert for some incredible agriculture. You vastly underestimate man’s ingenuity. As I said the world has a distribution problem not a food problem.
I’m not sue how self-reliant the Dutch and Israelis are, when it comes to food, but conidering nuke plants to grow food, how will it be feasible when even irradiation has been nearly unimplementable?
The logic may be fine, but humans are notoriously stupid, en masse.
True. 100% True.
Wish we had families like the Duggers, but with 5-10 kids average.
Why the hypocrisy?
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