Posted on 06/07/2016 1:51:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Western civilisation is on the brink of a collapse like that of ancient Rome because the modern generation does not want the responsibility of bringing up children, the former Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has warned.
... ultimately, he said, European society as we know it “will die” because of the demographic crisis.
And mass immigration is not a solution because of problems integrating new arrivals into existing society.
"Europe is going to die because of this because Europe can only maintain its population by unprecedented levels of immigration" - Lord Sacks
This makes him one of only a handful of public figures in recent memory to raise the alarm about declining fertility rates as a serious social problem.
He also warned that Britain is losing its national “memory” and cultural identity
He explained: “People forget how Britain won its freedom -Civil war -- and the extraordinary thinking done by John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke.
“Freedom doesn’t just happen.
“You have the classic example of this, the Arab Spring, 2011. Now people start Googling and using Facebook, tyrants are toppled and you think, that’s it you press a button and Google will do the rest.
“Yes, tyrants were deposed but what succeeded them was not freedom but anarchy.
“And indeed terrible anarchy of a kind that we know basically from Hobbes after the wars of religion of Europe when he spoke about the state of nature as being the war of every man against every man in which life is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’.
“[That] is a precise description of life in Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or Somalia or Libya today. People think freedom is like the default setting on your phone.
“Freedom is not a default setting anywhere, freedom has to be fought for.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Don't laugh, we did the same. Almost all of our U.S. population growth for the past 40 years has been from immigrants and the first and second generation descendants of immigrants.
The potential born-American children of born-Americans have been wiped out by contraception, sterilization, abortion and buggery.
Back in 1968 Pope Paul VI said contraception could destroy souls, marriages, families, nations, and civilizations. People haven't had any idea what he was talking about: until now.
But it's still true that those who procreate, own the future.
As they say, Inshallah.
We don’t have enough money for kids because the government takes it from us and gives it to the newly-arrived ones with the 4 always-pregnant wives, our replacements.
It should be noted...mothers kill to the tune of 1.25 children per second. That’s only the reported killings. This ain’t contraception...this is outright murder.
Even if immigrants are "well integrated," they are not the original population. Cultural patterns in both private and social life persist for many generations, even when people are very good citizens of their new country of residence.
A European geographic entity with a population of hardworking, law-abiding Koreans would be ... something quite different from what it once was.
we choose to spend our money in other ways.
The “me” generation never went away.
Try skyrocketing immigration rates.
My great-grandparents had families of 10 and 11 kids. They were factory workers in the 1870's and 1880's. Believe me, they were paupers compared to us today, and yet they made sure their kids were well-rooted in Faith and Family, were hard workers and trained for jobs in the skilled trades.
My grandparents had families of 5 and 6 kids. They were skilled tradesmen, toolmakers, and had industrial jobs. All their kids worked even in high school, helped support their brothers and sisters, and stayed in school as long as they could despite the Great Depression.
My parents had 2 kids. My husband's parents had 4. Good solid people, aith-family-education-employment, same values.
My husband and I got married late, and had 2 (one home-grown and one adopted) though we'd wanted more. My brother, Univesity educated, highly-paid job n management-level engineering, and his college-educated, working wife, had no kids.
A lot of rich people have One-Child-Special, or none.
A trend. Make of it what you will.
I cringe at this kind of prognostication of doom and gloom without giving credit the the eugenics tribe. Failure to feed, falling nukes or one super bug could spell an end to the problem as well. The only reason these populations swell in “advanced society”, is that 7th century breeding is meeting modern medicine and the survival rate for offspring is unsustainable. Hillary’s favorite role model, Margaret Sanger, wrote extensively on the upside of abortion, sterilization, and elimination the “unfit” as well. I seem to recall some National Socialist Party that did some pretty imaginative things along those lines.
Perhaps that sealing the border isn’t a cruel or bad idea after all. I really do appreciate the line: “The potential born-American children of born-Americans have been wiped out by contraception, sterilization, abortion and buggery.” It sounds like a campaign slogan to end white privileged.
At every Catholic wedding (age appropriate, of course) the man and woman promise to be fruitful and bring those children up as Catholics.
Why don’t people get the message?
Follow God’s rules and he will provide.
Think of the widow where Elijah stayed. Her oil and flour did not run out because she did God’s will (spoken through Elijah.)
I wonder why they didn't get scurvy, though. Maybe the Bible skipped over the part where they gathered wild greens.
The Amish, and I mean the real Amish population, doubles in a short period of time.
We don’t have enough money for kids because the government takes it from us and gives it to the newly-arrived ones with the 4 always-pregnant wives, our replacements.
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That’s the way the government wants it because those people will vote for big government and they don’t care about corruption.
Got me.
Just something that crossed my mind when we were reading it this morning.
All of those sins are secondary to a colder and colder society. They become easier to excuse in the face of such a society. Ah what’s the use of straining towards a holistic view of sex, if babies only exist to punish us? If the arrows in the quiver are but play toys, here today and meaning nothing tomorrow?
Maybe partly because this is unrealistic; not every child will believe — or will believe as a youth — and “being” a “Christian of any sort” without belief is hypocrisy.
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