With increasing secularization and the decreasing role of religeous morals comes a great problem that our friends in Europe are currently facing: the population is dying off.
Religeous Christians and Jews feel obligated to "Be fruitful and multiply", because a numerically strong population gives glory to God. Europeans represent the near-godless evolution of western society to the point where having children is unfashionable. This causes many problems, among them are:
-The number of workers required to support retirees decreases
-The cost of health care increases as the population ages
-The native population will eventually lose a voting majority to immigrants
-Productivity increases can't keep up with fewer and fewer workers
Do you think it's impossible for it to be "unfashionable" to have and raise kids? Read this article- but I'm warning you, it is unbelievably distrubing. Before you click I'll introduce it to you as Germany's new infanticide epidemic. No pictures or anything like that, just a sub-human disregard for young human life. If that doesn't make your heart break then I can't imagine what will.
The role of Islam in post-religeous secular western society:
The trend in America is following the European model- we are having fewer children and having them later in life. This allows for great wealth, but our still-religeous Muslim counterparts are multiplying like a page out of Genesis from the Bible. While most European countries have reached zero-growth native populations, several such as Italy and Sweden have made it to negative-growth of native population. Of course, the overall population continues to soar due to Islamic immigration.
Now, Judaism and Christianity reached a point about 500 years ago (roughly in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation) where we reconciled with the modern world and realized that the Church and State can operate indepenantly. We now believe the words of Jesus when he said, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and give to God what is God's" (Luke 20:25). Islam will not stand for this. No, a Muslim must make everyone in his country abide by the same laws, and any violators will be punished according to Sharia Law.
So, all the liberties that were recognized by the great French Revolutionary thinkers, perfected and paid for in blood by the founding fathers of the United States of America, and paid for many times over again throughout European history will be swept away and scattered as Islam forces Europe to march backwards into the 8th century as it imposes Sharia Law as soon as a voting majority is obtained.
Now I'm not one to cook up a shitty topic until it boils without proposing at least one viable solution, so here goes with my solution to this inevitable showdown:
Introduce learning and science to Muslim populations. Knowledge is power, and powerful, knowledgable people will not be enslaved by a nonsensical and counterintuitive religeon such as Islam. The only reason why the Catholic Church was able to enslave the population for so many centuries is because they hid information from it by encoding the Bible in Latin. Only priests could read Latin, so unless you listen to a priest tell you that it requires money to go to heaven then how would you know the difference?
Radical Islam forbids reading certain books. This should set off your bullshit detector instantly. Any religeon that bans any kind of information can be likened to slavery and should not be tolerated by anybody (Bible-thumping FCC employees and lobbyists are not immune from this criticism).
It would be simply ridiculous to try and keep up with Islamic birth rates just to keep up, because I find it appalling to play games with human life.
Islam has destroyed middle eastern culture, and will prevent them from advancing to modern times so long as they keep its stranglehold over their population. How can you possibly keep up when half your population (female) is forbidden to be educated? The middle east used to be a place of great learning, making advancements in the fields of medicine, chemistry, and warfare. While Europe was suffering under a Pope-induced dark age, Arab culture flourished. Then, Islam arrived, and marched them all back into the stone age. Then the crusades came, and it was dark age versus dark age- a truly dismal scenario. But like I said above, about 500 years ago we woke up from the spell and reconciled with the modern world, and alas, a Rennaissance was born!
We need to force-feed Muslims the education that they are so desperately lacking until they advance out of the Bronze Age. No military campaign or economic sanction can make up for a uneducated, psychologically enslaved population.
7 comments:
Great rant Axe! I agree with you to a certain extent, but I believe that the westernization of Islam will eventually meet the requirements of your solution. Muslems with a western education are generally much more moderate. Look at Jordan for example. The more muslims that obtain an education out of the middle east and then go back, the higher the probability of turning the tide in the middle east.
As far as the German baby drop story, this is something that happens in our country on a daily basis. We have also had to create safe zones to drop off unwanted babies. This is horrible, but I believe this is a product of a lack of education as well as poverty.
The westernization of Islam is the ultimate product of education, so I think we're talking about the same thing.
The educated ones are not going to strap bombs on themselves, and that's all that we want anyways.
It's not about who you pray to, it's all about if you can get along with other people that matters.
The baby drop thing may be wrong on many levels, but it's a hell of a lot better than a dumpster.
I don't think that topic can even be included in the abortion debate either, because we're talking about women that gave birth and are actually holding the children before they discard them. You can't just "discard" a human being at your convenience, but I don't know that trying them for murder is going to fix it either (even though it is murder in the most basic terms). It's really just heartbreaking nomatter how you look at it.
I'll agree that poverty and lack of education must play some part in it.
Good article! Nonetheless, secular western society will always be better than a religious one!
I totally agree with that. My direction here is to step back a minute and study the beast that we've become.
Every trend, even for the better, still has its drawbacks. I personally think that a secular, modern state is an ideal government, but it does have drawbacks.
Just like with Capitalism, there's pro's and con's, and it's a good idea to understand your weakness and augment your strengths.
since when is population dying off a bad thing?
^Oh boy.
I agree with a lot of what you have to say there. Europe is in big trouble with it's ever expanding Muslim population. I don't have any answers here but it should be pointed out that a lot of the terrorists where educated--the ones that hit us on 911 and the idiots who pulled off the London tube station bombings. This Islamic meme is a strong one.
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