More on Mohler, if you like (I had trouble tracking this post of mine down).
Baptist leader and historical theologian Albert Mohler says that refusing to have children isn't "human":
https://albertmohler.com/2019/08/27/briefing-8-27-19
Quotes:
"We're talking about whether or not there will be a coming generation."
Me:
Um, no, we're not. Most people still want children - even if they can't afford them. (Economics is an issue he doesn't address properly; just because the Depression birth rate was higher than it is now doesn't mean they could really afford the babies
they had back then; they just didn't have access to good birth control. He doesn't mention the environment or pollution as reasons why people might refuse
to breed, either - and since he lives in Kentucky, it's not as though he could be unaware of the
cancer rates in Appalachian states. Talk about a great setting for a horror film...)
Mohler:
"Parents are far more conservative than non-parents. It's because they can't afford to be otherwise. They have to raise their children in an understanding of nurture and truth and discipline and teaching."
Me:
Not exactly. Ask any teacher who gets blamed for a lazy student's bad grades.
And, from commentator Raven at the Patheos blog:
Sept. 6:
"Of course, we all know what Mohler really means here.
"The SBC, which he is a leader of, has lost a million members total in 12 years
of steadily declining membership.
"They have to reproduce because they can't recruit!!!
"And that isn't working either."
From my fellow commentator Crid (who quotes me first):
Um, no, we're not.
"These kinds of comments are appreciated. A number of times over the years I've
been taunted by parents —sometimes people who're pretty obviously dissatisfied with their lives and their crushing burdens— who say that because so many irresponsible "
little" people, "out there," "somewhere" are having kids, I should raise the kind of decent and sharp children I'm capable of having.
"To which the only sensible response is, 'I'm on the hook for raising good kids
just because you're creating little assholes?'
"If you don't want to have kids, you really, really shouldn't have kids.
"Earth has problems, but mere staffing is not one of them.
"There are enough people. Not too many, but enough."
(end)
Btw, re "I'm on the hook for raising good kids just because you're creating..."
Bill Maher made a similar comment, years ago. But he clearly had little interest in having kids anyway. I can only hope women under 40 are losing interest in him by now, given that he's in his 60s. (No celebrity should get listed as "childfree" until
that person is over 60 or so - AND has declared an aversion to having children.
Btw, Carolyn Jones - of "Addams Family" fame - reputedly CHOSE not to raise children.)
Lenona.
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