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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (17194)11/22/2003 8:43:51 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 793690
 
I keep harping on it here because this is a very secular board, and we tend to pooh-pooh it.

I didn't realize that the thread pooh-poohed it. I see a huge gulf not exactly between the religious and the non-religious but between the "consumed" religious and the rest of us, which includes the casually religious and the non-religious. There are whole sets of beliefs that go with those two perspectives where the religious basis of the difference is not conspicuous, such as whether population growth is inherently a good or bad thing. It's a fundamental bifurcation and I think it's a serious matter, indeed.

Europe is now down to about 2/1.8, a death knell for them.

I'm familiar with the statistics. And I'm also familiar with the death knell conclusion. What is not familiar is an inevitable connection to back up the conclusion. Europe is set up as we are, only more so, for a nanny state that depends on population growth. If there were no nanny state, I do not know any reason why Europeans would want to increase their population. Do you? I've heard the point made about Japan, as well, but haven't seen anything persuasive attributing the blame for Japan's stagnation on population. Seems to me that Japan would be smart to recognize the constraints of their land mass.
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