Family Matters

[Tanja Cilia]

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But I digress; my point was that I felt for the person ragged as “Ringo Starr”.

This week, five people, in five totally dissimilar situations, told me I am “sweet”... an adjective that is hardly ever used in the same breath as my name. Frankly, this bothered me.

But my faith in humankind was totally restored yesterday, when someone told me I was being obstructive, obdurate, and deliberately argumentative.

It all began when someone in a writers’ group to which I belong, posted a link to the reality television show about The Duggars. This family of Independent Baptists – like the website called Raising Godly Tomatoes of Elizabeth Krueger - advocates several ideas of how to bring up children in a “godly” manner. This led to a discussion about similar lifestyles, mostly oft he Quiverfull style.

The Quiverfull movement takes its name from Psalm 127: 4-5; As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the 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.

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