Here are some quotes:
History shows that when a culture ceases to value children above all, when traditional marriage and family structure is seen as merely an option, that culture will cease to have enough offspring to sustain itself.
...these societies expire from lack of manpower, which itself is a manifestation of a lack of the will to live.
While we late moderns eat, drink and make merry, the Harvard scholar lamented, "very little public knowledge of the nearness, the inescapability or the seriousness of this impending crisis exists."
Along the same lines, there is a DVD called Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family. It's trailer is absolutely chilling.
If even half of this stuff is true, it's a serious issue. If all of it is, we're in big trouble...
2 comments:
Thanks for the link to these. Interesting stuff. Although, the developing world is still actually growing (a birth rate of 3 is still growth, even if it used to be 6 20 years ago).
Important to remember that non-christians are not the 'enemy' though - we're not to out-breed them to 'beat' them in some sort of contest - they are our lost brethren whom Christ died to save. And that doesn't change, regardless of which cultural grouping is dominant. In fact, historically the church is usually stronger when it is culturally in the minority - China currently has one of the strongest Christian churches in the world. Perhaps God is going to use the rise of the 'other' to sort the wheat from the chaff?
Dunno, just a random thought that crossed my mind since watching the video. But it is important to remember that God is behind demography as much as He is behind everything else :)
Handymum, yeah, I think the developing world IS still growing; but taking it as a whole with the rest of us is perhaps where the shrinkage comes in..? Too, at least in Africa, AIDS is wiping out HUGE percentages of populations (though advances in medicine could slow that). And I absolutely agree that we shouldn't be out to 'overcome' non-christians in any sense. However, I can't help but wonder what the world would look like today if the Church (at large) had embraced AS MANY children and had raised them with as much conviction in the last century as our muslim counterparts..
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