Contraception

[rowyn]

About a week ago, Prester Scott wrote about the morality, or lack thereof, of contraception in a Christian context. In response, I posited that, historically, Christianity condemned contraception because, for a variety of reasons, uncontrolled population growth was a positive good. Given that the situation between today and Biblical times -- or

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[prester_scott]

This is very interesting, but I'm not going to address it directly. Rather, let me lay this thought on you:

We mostly-well-educated, mostly-affluent, liberal-democrat Westerners can do the above calculations and come up with ideas like Zero Population Growth. On the face of it, it doesn't sound like a terrible idea.

But will the people of Latin America do the same? of Africa? of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia? Unlikely.

They are mostly not educated or affluent. Their economic opportunities are considerably limited by our standards. Western-owned businesses control most of the economy of the world. Western taxpayers prop up the rest of the world through foreign aid and investment.

What's going to happen as our birthrates decline and theirs rise? Who's going to pay the bills? And there is no guarantee that the social changes required to keep the system going will happen without bloody revolution.

The other alternative, of course, is even worse: coerce/defraud the Third World into lowering its birth rate by forcing contraception and abortion on them (usually accompanied by sexual license). This is, in fact, the United Nations plan -- and a racist's wet dream, I might add.

So what's a white American Christian boy like me to do to try to stave off the collapse of Western Civilization?

Having a bunch of kids couldn't hurt.

Yes, there may be natural consequences (famine, plague, etc.) down the line, but none of us has much, if any, control over that.

I don't have complete confidence in the foregoing reasoning, but... well, what do you think?