ZOMG Secularism is killing the planet! (Chief Rabbi's sanity abandons him)
Lord Sacks blamed Europe's falling birth rate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". He said the continent was "dying" and accused its citizens of not being prepared for parenthood's "sacrifices".
The 61-year-old, who took his seat in the Lords last week, said: "Wherever you turn today - Jewish, Christian or Muslim - the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.
"The major assault on religion today comes from the neo-Darwinians."
Lord Sacks said Europe was the most secular region in the world and the only continent seeing populations fall.
He said parenthood involved "massive sacrifices" of money, attention, time and emotional energy. Lord Sacks asked: "In [modern Europe]... where will you find space for the concept of sacrifice for the sake of generations not born?"
He continued: "Europe is dying, exactly as Polybius said about ancient Greece in the third pre-Christian century.
"We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no-one is talking about it."
(Full article here)
This article seems like a combination of:
"ZOMG religious people are turning into atheists/heathens/heartless materialists!/ Won't anyone think of the foetuses!"
"ZOMG the Muslim immigrants are taking over"
and finally
"ZOMG why aren't more Jews using my Beth Din court on which my whole status as Chief Rabbi depends. Is there no decent sense of morality in the world anymore?"
(Via ontd political)
x-posted to atheism