This story in Newsweek (of all places) is not asking about the 55 million babies aborted since Roe v. Wade, but it does raise the looming demographic nightmare of shrinking population even in the USA and what it means for our economy. Authors Joel Kotkin and Harry Siegel are destined for a ton of hate mail, if cyber-mail can be measured in weight. And they definitely do not open real mail packages left at their door. You can’t talk about babies because all that was decided and settle in the grand sexual and feminist revolution, when women were liberated from all that stuff. Time to read The Children of Men again.
This indifference, or worse, of children and the belief that sexual intimacy can be separated from procreation without significant harm to society is one shared by a large proportion of Americans, and, indeed, the population of the developed world. Scripture states repeatedly and without caveat that children are a blessing from God and that those to whom He gives many are particularly blessed. The world has rejected this message for a long time, but for the last several decades, so has much of the Church. Perhaps Christians should seriously consider St. John Chrysostom’s admonition on the subject of contraception and its application to our generation:
“What then? Do you contemn the gift of God, and fight with his laws? What is a curse, do you seek as though it were a blessing?”
And the saint’s words are even more importantly manifested in Scripture:
[15] See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. [16] If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. [17] But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, [18] I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. [19] I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.” Deuteronomy 30:15-19 (ESV)