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- Like Pride, the Duggars take inspiration from Psalm 127, verses 3-5 of the King James Version; the Duggar preferred translation, which state:
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of thy youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate”
As Pride (and the Duggars) see it, the text suggests that children are God’s way of blessing a faithful man. Not only this, but analogized as arrows, children raised in evangelical Christian homes are conceived as literal weapons of righteousness in the culture wars to come.
Honestly I post stuff like this mostly to demonstrate that I am not alone in the opinions I hold in regard to the devoutly religious.