Posted on 09/02/2025 9:52:01 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a curious new religious group began spreading throughout the fledgling United States. Their official name was the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing – known colloquially as “Shakers” for their tendency to fall into ecstatic trances and literally shake or tremble during worship.
The Shakers are most famous today for their belief in strict celibacy – even within the confines of marriage. All members, whether single or married before joining, had to agree to remain chaste for their entire lives. Because of this, their communities had no biological offspring. They only added new members through attracting converts (a rather difficult sell) and occasionally adopting children.
While the Shakers’ numbers initially blossomed to more than 4,000 scattered across a dozen or so communities, eventually they ran into a rather predictable problem: it’s nearly impossible to keep an ideological movement alive without its members creating more new members.
Having children is the lifeblood of any culture, ideology, or religious movement, ensuring that beliefs, traditions, and values are passed down to the next generation. Without family and procreation, even the most passionate faith or cause withers away, relying on the uncertainty of converts rather than the stability of raising one’s own successors.
That’s why the global fertility crisis now gripping every region of the world outside Africa and the Middle East is so alarming – but the data shows that the number of births per woman is not distributed equally along the political spectrum.
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“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Lenin
Also Lenin “ Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state”
I bet it won't happen in our lifetime. Or, the lifetimes of our children.
Yes. And this proves true. There is no denying it. Kids are captives in schools by laws requiring education.
Make an economy where both parents may need to work to pay the bills, school becomes the “babysitter”. They got ya! They slowly brew a curriculum that indoctrinates your child into leftism.
The marxists have invaded many churches too. Add in TV shows and movies to the mix. Teach kids that wrong is moral and right is evil and selfish. They rewrite history and put it into the foul books they use in schools. Now, many schools use tablet computers instead of the child bringing papers home that parents can see.
It is all around them all day and night through ads all over the place that target them.
Hungary, if I recall, is giving tax breaks to large families. We should...
Great conclusion. Take those Marxist rats rhetorically by their tails and throw them in the ashcan of history. Their squeals would be music to my ears.
Several years ago, I saw a TV program about the Shakers. At the time, their mejbership was down to nine, but they held a worship service and performed the famous Shaker hymn “Simple Gifts.” I read recently that the membership has decreased even further, and that they decided to shut the church down.
The fly in the ointment is the possibility that the left will gain the controll that they were on the verge of taking by the end of the #46 presidency and begin physically liquidating their “enemies” wholesale as they open up the borders wide in order to replenish their serf population. It is beginning ever so slightly to happen in Germany with the liquidation of a number of AFD candidates before the next election.
I woke today wondering why / how all this illegal invasion across the developed world got started?
I thought they had gone extinct, but apparently there are three left (including a convert in 2021!)
A false prophet by the name of Mohammed. His evil religion is winning now because Christianity has become weak to the threat.
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