In P. J. O'Rourke's now aging irreverent book, "All the Trouble in the World" he makes the case that there has never been a shortage of food, at least in modern times, but there has been a shortage of ethical generous behavior. All those starving people seen on TV are starving not because there is no food somewhere. They are also not starving because people don't want to send it to them. But they are starving because evil people want to steal the food (and everything else they can get there hands on) for themselves.
We, as God fearing lovable anti-abortion American Christians, of course would never condone such a thing. After all, we are the ones often sending the food to be stolen by the evil warlords and government dictators. But have you ever thought about this? Are we depriving young wonderful fun loving kids of life, because having another child will hurt our pocket book, increase our time to retirement, or cause our spouse to quit work making us sell a car, and imagine if we ran out of time to watch our sports in the evening. Well, hum maybe?
But we are running out space here on this earth you say? Nonsense! You can give every person in the world in an 2200 sq. foot two story house and fit all the houses in Texas. Of course it would be pretty cramped, but you get the picture. The rest of entire world would all be fodder for the Nature Channel and thousands of miles of fields of grain.
The replacement rate to keep the population even here in the United States is 2.13 kids per family. We are just about even right now. But that is mostly because of immigrants coming to our wonderful Christian land (thank you Puritans, Quakers, and Anglicans) and having kids because it is a great thing to do. The rest of the world, especially Europe, which we seem to want to have as a model these days,is sliding backwards on a slow train to extinction.
Children are wonderful...go forth and fill the world with fun loving kids. Remember, he who has the most kids wins...sort of.
