Replies to post #2193 on Foreign Correspondence

[sarals]

Mankind never learns :(

[Amaunet]

Let me throw this out, FC is about speculation beyond that which is found in Google, so is there a chance the following irony could become a reality?

Here is where it gets interesting, contemplating how many people will be slaughtered is enough to make any rational person sick but who is to die is intriguing.

The very Christians that have put Bush in office will probably be the largest segment to be sacrificed. These poor unsuspecting breeders have voted for their own demise.
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Not only does Bush undermine access to birth control for religious reasons there is the not so small matter of his ‘world war’ which is to last decades and will require the lives of many of your children.
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Unwittingly Bush who is of very little brain could become the instrument by which the human species is purged of those, shall we say, who are lesser endowed mentally. This may be the only way to get the human species back on its evolutionary track. This sounds like it is straight out of Last and First Men nevertheless the possibility is there.

-Am



Reference
Rapid aging followed by depopulation on a scale not seen since the collapse of the Roman Empire threatens the modern world, writes Phillip Longman, an American journalist. Buried inside his book is the startling forecast that America's evangelical Christians will breed themselves into a position of global dominance.

Because parents and non-parents both will receive pensions paid by the next generation, no individual has an incentive to make sacrifices to bring the next generation into the world. In the absence of economic incentives to reproduce, "Faith is increasingly necessary as a motive to have children."

Longman contemplates the future with trepidation:

... Where will the children of the future come from? They will come disproportionately from people who are at odds with the modern environment ... or who, out of fundamentalist or chauvinistic conviction, reject the game altogether.

And again:
This much is sure: The uneducated have far more children than the educated, and the religiously minded generally have bigger families than do secularists. In the United States, for example, fully 47% of people who attend church weekly say that the ideal family size is three or more children, as opposed to only 27% of those who seldom attend church.