Posted on 11/24/2019 2:51:38 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The birth rates in Muslim countries are falling as fast as in the US.
Julie Roys is better known for her investigative reporting on financial and personal, or personnel, abuses in evangelical megachurches. She can fairly be said to have brought down James MacDonald of Harvest Bible Chapel, and nobody ever deserved it more.
I recommend her website with enthusiasm.
Now, let's shed some light on the topic.
Roman Catholics practice birth control through the NFP.
Bingo.
It takes 2.1 children to replace a couple (to adjust for the mortality rate).
This area is where Westerners suddenly get stupid about math. We’ll have our two children (because that’s the number of children families have in television commercials and in print advertisements) and we’ll demand the government spending for our safety net, but we won’t provide the taxpayers who will pay for this safety net.
And then we’ll get upset when our Replacement Population doesn’t look like us or think like us.
There has to be a valid reason to use NFP; it would be a grave sin to use it simply to avoid having a child.
Father Brian Kerr, co-founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, told me, “Keep it up! Don’t let the Muslims win!” when I was expecting my 10th child. He is one of 12 children born in Jamaica in the 1940s and 50s. His parents could manage but we can’t, not more than two?
You are correct. Quiverfull is trans-denominational.
NEWS FLASH: THIS IS WHY IT'S USED.
“Be fruitful and multiply”.
Or embrace blocking conception so you can be lazy...
There are consequences to everything that we do, and we are seeing some of them due to contraception.
One of the consequences is a slowing birth rate. Programs like social security were created with the idea that there would be an ever growing population to pay for the care of elders. This is backfiring. I believe the consequence of a slowing birth rate is the reason politicians want an ever increasing amount of immigrants....legal and illegal to make up for it. And then the consequences of rampant immigration are...
In the last 25 years Afghanistan's birth rate has been cut in half. How's that for math?
But the fact remains that this only allowed for limited and licit reasons; any other reason would be a grave sin.
(This is the Church’s teaching on the subject; and the beauty of the Catholic Church is that our opinion on this or any other subject is meaningless.)
Their constituents demand government spending, but they aren’t providing the taxpayers who will pay for the spending.
Realizing that the voters are talking out of both sides of their mouths, the politician comes up with his or her own solution.
Then I venture a whole lot of Roman Catholics are committing “mortal” sins.
I had four, and if I could do it all again I would never use birth control, and I would home school them all.
Some people say “eight is enough”, I know four isn’t enough.
Are you referring to this to dispute my math?
(Are you suggesting a couple may replace itself by having 2 or fewer children? That no adjustment is needed for the children who die before having children of their own, be it through a car accident, urban violence, opioid overdose, or through military service?)
The requirements for a mortal sin are 1) grave matter, 2) sufficient reflection, and 3) full consent of the will.
I’m simply pointing out that the matter of using NFP as simply a means of birth control is a grave one.
A worthy topic! Looking forward to her next article.
I'm disputing the notion you agreed with; that westerners having fewer children means we will be over run with Muslims. We won't be. Birth rates in the Muslim world are falling faster that in the west. The only reason some Muslim counties are above 2.1 now is simply that they are 20 years behind us. But they are catching up fast.
In the next 20 years, world population will start to decline for the first time ever. Muslim countries won't benefit from that.
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