Liberal underpopulation crisis
Pro-aborts on this site scoff. It appears their scoffing may echo in emptier and emptier hook-up bars or bathroom stalls.
In his September 12 Breakpoint, Chuck Colson referred to this August 20 commentary in the Wall Street Journal by social scientist Arthur Brooks….
Many secular Americans envy the nonreligious Europeans and look expectantly to the day our presidential candidates finally abandon once and for all tortured religious rhetoric….
Yet in all likelihood religion will grow as a social force in American culture and politics over the coming decades. The reason: A secular nation needs secular citizens. And nonreligious Americans are outstandingly weak when it comes to the most efficacious way to achieve this: by having kids.
If you picked 100 adults out of the population who attended their house of worship nearly every week or more often, they would have 223 children among them, on average, according to the 2006 General Social Survey. Among 100 people who attended less than once per year or never, you would find just 158 kids….
The demographic implications are even more profound for the political left, where a disproportionate number of secularists are located. Religious people who call themselves politically “conservative” or “very conservative” are having, on average, an astounding 78% more kids than secular liberals.
Studies show that people are even more likely to vote like their parents than they are to worship like them. The secular left, therefore, has to rely on the tough slog of bringing people from the political and religious middle over to their views. The religious right simply has to keep having lots of babies.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Great article, Jill, and so true. Wow 78 percent!
There’s also the other angle, Jill- that the majority of non-religious people come from notoriously religious families. You guys seem grow your own opponents.
I know I did my share…And Son Number 1 is already on his second…that means 4 more sons and 1 daughter to go…
Hmmmm…Thanksgiving could get crowded. Although there would be a lot of thanks to go around and we’d all agree on Who we were thanking…I’d like to invite some single secularists, but quite honestly, I think the table will be full…Dang. And I’m serving stuffed lemmings!
Sure, but most of them come back to the faith or their siblings pick up the slack, no big deal really.
site is sooo slow today…
I’ll take my lemmings to go if there’s no more room at the table…..
;-)
Erin,
So true. A good number of the people I know that I consider to be the most Christian are the ones who weren’t necessarily raised Christian.
I could tell you tons of stories of people who were raised Christian and grew up to out and out reject the faith. Also I know a good number of preacher’s kids that are royal screw ups.
I think it has something to do with the expectations placed upon them, or maybe just that religion was shoved too far down their throats growing up.
Well I am a progrssive liberal and I plan on having as amny children as I possibly can care for. Say, four boys and two girls. And then I would want to take in or adopt children, two more girls. So that would be 8. The same number my Nana has. It’s funny, my Great grandmother on my fathers side had girl, boy, girl, boy, girl, boy. She was probably like, “ok you’ll be a girl, then I’ll want a boy and maybe another girl…” lol. I don’t know if I would raise my children Catholic and have them baptized. I mean it would mean so much to my family and I would support them if they choose something different later on. And if they liked a religous life then good for them.
There’s also the other angle, Jill- that the majority of non-religious people come from notoriously religious families. You guys seem grow your own opponents.
Isn’t that kind of inevitable since the majority of the world is religious?
Gee whiz, I know religious people who came from screwed up families, and get this, I know tons of other religious people who came from religious homes, is there a point to Erins comment?
Actually, there are studies saying that the republicans are the ones “dying off”. Makes me chuckle really.
This guy does a bit about two studies with seemingly contradictory results. I will warn you though, hes pretty, ok, amazingly liberal, blunt, and sometimes vulgar/crass, yet hilarious. So if you arent worried about feeling insulted, etc, give it a read. If not, dont say I didnt warn you
Here it is
What a clASSy onesie.
Actually, the atheist, agnostic, and non-religious community grows with the advancement of science. I’ve always thought that that was why the religious community was so against it.
@Dan: I love that article, I’m pretty sure I’ve read it before, but it never fails to make me crack a smile/laugh out loud. ^_^
“Gaze upon our wombs and see the seeds of your destruction.” :)
Actually, the atheist, agnostic, and non-religious community grows with the advancement of science. I’ve always thought that that was why the religious community was so against it.
Actually, the atheist, agnostic and non-religious community grows as they become addicted to sinful behavior and don’t want anyone calling them to task for it.
Thanks, Tony. I forgot about how people like you chase people away from religion in droves.
Oh Tony, you’re such a disappointment.
You forget that atheists and agnostics are just as capable of moral behavior as “Christians”.
*sigh*
You forget that atheists and agnostics are just as capable of moral behavior as “Christians”.
Moral behavior as defined by who, Rae?
Dan, I find Morford a hoot, but probably not for the reasons you think.
His articles are dripping with hysteria, a shrill, screechy tone reminiscent of Hillary at her finest.
I can almost see the keys of his keyboard flying off as he viciously pounds it.
Morford sees the writing on the wall. Each “fetus” that is aborted by a pro-choicer, is one less pro-choice liberal in the voting booth.
He hates the Duggars. They are producing one child after another. They are raising them Christian, and they are taking them to Church. They home school, so their children are not subject to the public school indoctrination stations that is the last bastion of converting their children to a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, anti-God, anti-traditional-family viewpoint.
Frankly, is scares Morford, and the fright comes out very clearly in the articles he writes. I am definitely of good cheer.
So unless the libs can hustle us into cattle cars, abort our young against our will, or put us into gas chambers. Within a generation or two, liberalism will fade into obscurity, much like the Whigs and know-nothings did.
So unless the libs can hustle us into cattle cars, abort our young against our will, or put us into gas chambers. Within a generation or two, liberalism will fade into obscurity, much like the Whigs and know-nothings did.
Tony, such trends may go for a while, but they tend to be self-correcting, as such a “conservative” majority or period of being in power leads to the inevitable dissatisfaction with the status quo.
On a different note, the Republicans are hardly “conservatives” any more, anyway….
Doug
“The secular left, therefore, has to rely on the tough slog of bringing people from the political and religious middle over to their views.”
And sadly, alleged “conservative Christian” parents make this a much easier task by giving their children to the secular left government school system for 13 years or more.
Tony, such trends may go for a while, but they tend to be self-correcting, as such a “conservative” majority or period of being in power leads to the inevitable dissatisfaction with the status quo.
On a different note, the Republicans are hardly “conservatives” any more, anyway….
I have to say I agree with you, Doug. I am very disappointed in the Republican leadership currently. There isn’t a whole lot of difference between them and Democrats right now. They’re all career politicians who are more concerned with being reelected than doing what’s right for the country.
What I would love to see is Republicrat party, and what I mean by that is a party who holds to the life and family issues dear to conservatives, and the social justice issues dear to the liberals all in one party.
I’d sign up tomorrow.
Tony, Amen to that!!
Tony, anyone who isnt christian can still be moral by christian standards, it truly isnt as difficult as it seems, granted I was raised christian, perhaps that is why I think it is easy, overall anyway.
And in all reality, todays conservatives are yesterdays liberals, and todays liberals are tomorrow conservatives, at least thats how I see it
Tony,
It’s called “Independent.” :) I think I might register as an Independent, but then again I’dlike to have my hand in those primaries…
Damn that school system and it’s free-thinking values…
@Tony: You base your morality off something that can’t be proven to exist, how is your morality any different than mine? How do you know that morality isn’t ingrained into our genetic code as an evolutionary benefit? I was raised a good li’l Catholic girl. Just because I don’t believe in the Christian-interpretation of God and I don’t attend church doesn’t mean I don’t try to live up to the Christian standards of morality (which in general are found in every culture around the world, just interpreted slightly differently).
I have to say I agree with you, Doug. I am very disappointed in the Republican leadership currently. There isn’t a whole lot of difference between them and Democrats right now. They’re all career politicians who are more concerned with being reelected than doing what’s right for the country.
What I would love to see is Republicrat party, and what I mean by that is a party who holds to the life and family issues dear to conservatives, and the social justice issues dear to the liberals all in one party.
I’d sign up tomorrow.
Tony, definitely agree on the “career politicians” – and would extend it to our whole gov’t in general – it’s now a huge bureaucracy first and foremost concerned with keeping its power and sustaining itself, everything else be darned.
I like some Libertarian ideas, but for now it’s only the two parties that really have a chance in most elections. Anybody who could get elected President has already sold themself so many times that it’s just silly, in my opinion. Mighty cynical am I.
Doug