An Alternet article on Quiverfull

[conuly]

And let me just say that anybody who doesn't think that term is a little disturbing isn't thinking clearly about it. They're explicitly using a passage about having children like little arrows. If they were just about the kids, why not call themselves the "fruitful" movement?

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[mc776]

I'm tempted to start a group called "Spears in the Shade", just to throw it back at them.

Sadly, I doubt more than about three hundred people would get it.

[conuly]

301 once you explain it to me.

[mc776]

This is... the reference starting at 1:45.

[conuly]

Thank you :)

[dragonwolf]

The fun part is, from resources I've found, the warrior actually said that to the Persians. :D

[mc776]

I hate you for inducing me into reading that, in particular reading it to the end.

I hate myself more for expecting better of a column on National Review.

Anyway, yes I would not have made the reference otherwise. >_>

[dragonwolf]

Ah well, it was one of the first ones I found that had the attributions for the exact quote when I was looking for it at a time that I should have been working.

Such is the way of things when pop culture is used to get people interested in actual historical events. If it weren't for the movie, I know I wouldn't have known about it, since it never was in my history classes. (It's a shame, too, because even though that battle technically had more than 300, they were still woefully outnumbered, and both it and the battle a year later were epic, despite that fact.)