Secularism 'means fall in births'

[ccharles000]

Europe is facing a population crisis because of attacks on religion by secular writers, Britain's chief rabbi has said.

Lord Sacks blamed Europe's falling birth rate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification".

He said the continent was "dying" and accused its citizens of not being prepared for parenthood's "sacrifices".

He made his comments in a lecture for Christian think tank Theos in central London on Wednesday.

The 61-year-old, who took his seat in the Lords last week, said: "Wherever you turn today - Jewish, Christian or Muslim - the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

"The major assault on religion today comes from the neo-Darwinians."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8345837.stm

[trotsky]

1. Well, he's right.

Once free of the ridiculous religious obligation to procreate, one instead chooses to do it responsibly, if at all. However, this is not selfishness but rather wisdom and societal awareness - two things we should be encouraging among the population.

[Mz Pip]

2. That's a bad thing?

Less people on this over crowded planet, using up the limited resources sounds like a good idea to me.

[johnfunk]

4. I was going to say: and that's a PROBLEM?

[niyad]

3. so this cretin demonstrates he doesn't know anything about overpopulation, strained resources, etc.

how in the hell did he become chief rabbi or whatever? there is an old expression that cream rises to the top-- more and more it appears that, in many cases, it is something else entirely.

[formercia]

5. Less cannon fodder to use as an excuse for making War.

No more Lebensraum arguments.

[mr blur]

6. There's no population "crisis" here,

in fact there are still far too many religious loonies running around.