[Colonol Dekker]

LMAO..........  Later humes, i'm off to le' Pub to get drunk and come home to WIFE in aloving mood.

Or fall asleep in a hedge.

[Kazan]

go home and fark your wife, the pub will give you ED

[redmenace]

And actually, from a efficiency stand point, they are cheaper by the dozen.

Muahahah, no they're not, no kid of mine is getting hand me down crap. They'd never make it through primary school in one piece.

A bigger home and vehicle are cheaper that multiple homes and multiple cars.

[redmenace]

go home and fark your wife, the pub will give you ED

Like that ever stopped any here before.

[Janos]

The cliche of the super christian southerner = inbreeding. Not sure if this is in the south tho, it just felt appropriate to say

not the cliché, but the PINNACLE

[Kazan]

A bigger home and vehicle are cheaper that multiple homes and multiple cars.

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[redmenace]

Having a huge 15 passenger van is far cheaper than 3 5 passenger cars.
Having a huge home capable of housing 15 people is cheaper than 3 homes capable of housing 5.

Yes a home for 15 people will cost far more than a single 5 person home. The same for cars, but we are talking economies of scale. However, I do not recommend having 13 Children.

[Kazan]

you're forgetting to factor heating bills, gas (for the shagging waggon), food bills, medical bills, loss of income of the wife since she's constantly barefoot and pregnant and too busy with a herd of children to work, etc

[redmenace]

Food bill, if you buy in bulk would be cheaper. Heating bills would be more dependant on where you live also heating a bigger place like that might be more efficient though.

But obviously, 13 children in the end will cost more the 3 or 4.

[aldo_14]

Bah.  Buy a small house, stack the kids on the walls for insulation, bake tasty treats using the mothers lactations.  Job done.

[Bobboau]

and all the while the seculars have at most one child per pair, and you doubt that there is a genetic component to religious nuttery?
it's ironic that the logic they are using here is basically evolutionary theory.

anyway secular society needs to find a way to have more kids, it is self destructive otherwise and will collapse in on it's self/be overrun otherwise.

and too bad "social justice" doesn't let you not support these people, eh?

[Kazan]

bob + nail + head

[Flipside]

Thing is, around 2000 years ago, you had lots of children because most of them wouldn't make it to adulthood. Even Kings used to work on the theory of 'An heir and a spare'.

[Ace]

In the long run though, how much of a threat are they even if we assume a best case scenario for each one being converted?

They have almost no financial safety-net beyond things such as welfare. (family and community strained by number of children and low-income)

College is unattainable, and being home-schooled it is questionable whether or not they even have a high-school education.

The most force that they have is the vote, and possibly running for local offices. Even then, they're going to be controlled by conservative groups who view them as a vote and will undermine the social programs that they use.

"Vote with their feet?" and apply pressure on non-christian companies? Laughable. Global economy, even assuming a monolithic 0.5 billion group of these people with perfect grassroots communication it's not a real issue.

In the end, it is an unsustainable strategy and increases the risk of deviance. (i.e. kids seeing 'evil secular families' with more resources)

If anything I want this to be embraced, as it'd collapse within two generations and in the end disillusion people even more to organized religion.

[Kosh]

Are these people on welfare? Easier solution would be to get rid of welfare all together.

Ship them off to Compton LA, problem solved.