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Editorial adviser Jeff Sharlet sends the following email:

My friend and colleague Kathryn Joyce has just published her first major magazine article in The Nation, a portrait of a new Christian fundamentalist "avant-garde" of women who wage "spiritual war" by birthing as many soldiers for God as they can. They call their babies arrows, and their movement "Quiverfull," and they're thinking long term: "if just 8 million American Christian couples began supplying more "arrows for the war" by having six children or more, they propose," writes Kathryn, "the Christian-right ranks could rise to 550 million within a century." Men are in on it, of course: Kathryn writes of one husband who abandoned plans for a vasectomy urged even by his pastor when he "saw a warrior angel in his dream. A "large, worrying warrior angel" with a flaming sword that he pointed at Christopher's genitals, telling him, "Do not change God's plan."" Scariest of all, conservative Democrats are in on it too — the latter part of the article reports on a Democratic Leadership Council study of the "return to patriarchy" to figure out how Democrats can do just that as a path to victory.

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