Posted on 01/04/2013 2:14:20 PM PST by NYer
Not a reflection on you of course, but this strikes me as cowardice disguising itself as compassion. Husbands and wives have settled down to have kids amidst troubles and insecurities much, much worse than almost anything on earth at present.
You can look at dramatic examples like people still marrying and raising families during the Fall of Rome, the Barbarian Invasions, Conquista of Mesoamerica, World Wars, Black Death.
You can see it, perhaps less dramatically, in most family trees. Mine, for instance:
And I can say that a lot of those more distant people on the family tree, were having their kids amidst wars, economic downturns, displacements, emigration, Depression.
Compared to them, we --- some of us --- just lacked what? Maybe a clear vision of how to pursue marriage and family, and with whom. Maybe the maturity, maybe the capacity to make long-term plans and stop indulging our impulses. Maybe faith, hope, and love.
From what I can see, it's the people with faith, hope, and love who are still having families, God bless them. And they live in the same "world today" that we do.
“[T]he whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
Fear not. The Universe is on the side of life. The Universe, and Him who made it.
Not to worry.
THe barbarians of today are having children like there is no tomorrow.
“T]he whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.””
That is a clear and present danger, BL, but I’ve read the back of the Book. We win.
Communist Obamanation File.
“The Cause of America’s Declining Birthrate”
Contraceptives. It’s really not much more than that.
Occam’s razor...
THe barbarians of today are having children like there is no tomorrow.
Even the "barbarian" has a vastly declining birth rate, and they don't use birth control nearly as much as we, generally speaking, do.
What hasn't been considered is that the human genetic code is deteriorating, with the accumulation of mutations at an exponential rate, which causes the procreation rate to decrease.
The good note is that, by the grace and providence of Almighty God, strongly believing, born again families still often have a fair amount of children.
“What hasn’t been considered is that the human genetic code is deteriorating, with the accumulation of mutations at an exponential rate, which causes the procreation rate to decrease.”
Interesting comment. The strange thing is that, when confronted with the arguments about the children of Adam and Eve committing incest in order to procreate, I’d always realised that the laws against incest were as a result of sin somewhere down the line having a physical effect on mankind, but my thinking had stopped there. I hadn’t thought about the effects still continuing. And I always considered myself a good thinker!:-)
Another thing: the world has been beguiled by the spirit of Margaret Sanger. Now, a mere 100 years after she opened her first Birth Control clinic in Brooklyn, people almost uniformly see fertility as a bad thing, and infertile practices (contraception, sodomy, sterilization, lesbianism, induced miscarriages a.k.a. abortions, etc) as good things.
So if people's fertility is getting more and more damaged, that's being covered up by the fact that they're already adopting practices to make themselves infertile, anyhow. They don't notice the slowly accumulating pathologies of infertility, or recognize them as a sign that our sexual physiology is degenerating. They don't worry, the don't care. (Until they hit their mid-30's, try to have a child, and then --- whoa! what happened! I seem to be, um, reproductively disabled!)
I myself think that we're impairing our fertility, across the board, and around the world, with endocrine disruptors. But people aren't reacting to this as a crisis, because 99% people accept infertility as a "normal" sexual state, 99% of the time.
It won't "hit" people that something is in fact drastically wrong, until even IVF doesn't save them. We'll have brought it upon ourselves by our own choices. As it says in Hosea 9:
"No conceptions,
No pregnancies,
No births!
And the offspring you do produce,
You will bring forth to the slayer."
Placenark
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