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That's part of it for sure. I'm the product of a Christian quiverfull family. In my case, there was never a sense of preserving racial purity, but religious pur
by anonporridge 3y ago
That's part of it for sure. I'm the product of a Christian quiverfull family. In my case, there was never a sense of preserving racial purity, but religious purity. You had big families to ensure that the future would be full of godly Christians. It's part of the goal of making the whole world Christian, and race or nationality didn't have anything to do with it.
Of course, it didn't really work. I'm now a wayward atheist, and none of my 4 siblings seem likely at this point to reproduce themselves to continue the process.
But the fact is, if you have two populations with very different reproductive rates, the one with the higher rate (assuming it's sustained over many generations) absolutely will subsume the other given enough time. It's just math.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> But the fact is, if you have two populations with very different reproductive rates, the one with the higher rate (assuming it's sustained over many generations) But, you don't have two different populations. Identity groups (whether socially constructed races or religions) aren't isolated lineages.
- anonporridge 3y agoBut you do have two different populations that are increasingly not interbreeding. Politics is the new religion, and at least current trends seem to show that it's initiating a new genetic rift. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/really-would-you-let-your-daughter-marry-a-democrat/262959/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/really-... https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/522987-the-partisan-marriage-gap-is-bigger-than-ever/ https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/522987-the-partisan-...