The Daily Telegraph, reported today that, “Europoe is ‘dying’ because its secular population is too selfish to have children, according to the leader of Britain’s Jewish community. Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, claimed that the continent’s population was in decline because people cared more about shopping than the sacrifice involved in parenthood. He blamed atheist “neo-Darwinians” for Europe’s low birth rate and said religious people of all denominations were more likely to have large families. “Parenthood involves massive sacrifice of money, attention, time and emotional energy,” he said. “Where today in European culture with its consumerism and instant gratification – ‘because you’re worth it’ – will you find space for the concept of sacrifice for the sake of generations not yet born? Europe, at least the indigenous population of Europe, is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.”
Public date: November 6th, 2009Categories: News
Tags: children, Europe, families, Humanism, parenthood, population, secularism
November 7, 2009
The Earth is dying from overpopulation. What it needs is not religion or atheism, but good old Renaissance Humanism, that is inclusive of all the above.
We are a species, and need to assume control and responsibility for our planet and lives. We don’t need philosophies that involve nebulous 3rd parties.