This is why they home-school with religious materials. It keeps the people inside unable to view anything that promotes a different view of the world. Once they hit adulthood, there’s so many concepts that are completely foreign to them that it’s easier to just go with the devil you know and stay within the tribe.

As for not breeding enough to outbreed declining religious belief, these families frequently have 10 children each. Here’s a photo from one of the frequent IBLP conferences in Big Sandy, TX. There are many conferences and training camps globally for just the IBLP. They’re also using their teaching materials in other schools prisons now.

They’re a big and growing problem, and they believe in taking zero preventative measures against children while also requiring women to submit. You won’t find them being bothered by CPS because they’re also extremely politically engaged at the highest levels.

I used to think religion was declining too, but I think there will be a strong resurgence as global inequity and climate change get even more hardcore. People retreat to the perceived safety of the easy spoonfed answers these movements offer to huge scary problems.