Keep Making Those Babies Folks...
...And only if you're married!
In an USA Today op-ed titled “The Liberal Baby Bust,” Phillip Longman, of the New American Foundation, describes the effects of falling birth rates for liberals. In it, Longman argues that demographic trends predict “a far more conservative future.” That’s because fertility “correlates strongly with a wide range of political, cultural, and religious attitudes.”
Whoopee! The liberals are doing themselves in by not replicating. It's probably due to all those abortions they've been having. As Longman put it, among liberals and “progressive secularists,” “childlessness and small families are increasingly the norm.” So, in places like Seattle (a definite mecca of liberalism) there’s nearly 45 percent more dogs than children.
But for conservatives, the outlook is rosy. "Nearly half of Americans who attend church weekly say that they want three or more children", says Longman, leading to a “dramatic, demographically driven transformation” of American culture. “Traditional values” will “make a comeback,” if for no other reason than the alternatives are self-annihilating. The “secularists and counter-culturalists” of the future will have never been born!
Christians, for the, most part, have bigger families because we believe that children are gifts from God, and not burdens—and because we believe that God intended our good when He said, “Be fruitful and multiply.” (Gensis 1:22) And the key here is to replace one generation of faithful Christians with another generation of faithful Christians. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
As always, obeying God’s commands is always the best strategy for improving ourlives and therefore our world.
