I just saw this article, one of many, that I didn’t even read, but a trend that I have observed first hand. This is basic selfishness. “I have my career and my life and I don’t want a husband or children messing it up”. Even people with children often view them as an accessory or compulsory social admittance. This is really messed up.

It’s easy to mock culture and rebel against traditions, but it’s quite difficult to develop and sustain moral culture or even civilization. We are born into a culture of rebellion and so things continue to deteriorate. But the old timers understood the importance of training your daughters to be mothers. It takes work and we can see the results of not doing this work or “leaving it up to them to decide”.  It’s the same gambit offered to Eve as if adding another possibility was somehow would empower her, when it only offered death in disguise.

What’s so important about motherhood? Well aside from the personal benefits of all such difficult endeavors, such as character building and a sense of accomplishment, you have demographics.  Mark Steyn has been a proponent of the importance of demographics for a while now.  The theme runs through his two latest books and many articles, such as this one.  We fight many battles as humans and a few more as Christians.  That is the nature of living in a fallen world and our responsibility to spread the gospel to all people and all areas of their life.  There are two ways you can do this by reproducing through evangelism and by having children.

As humans we fight the elements, disease, other people, and our own human sinfulness.  As Christians we fight against principalities and powers and the Muhammedans.  The latter we have been fighting for 1300 years with about the same results.  It’s easier to understand the importance of having many children when you and 101 other people have just sailed over from England to the wilderness and people are dying from disease and starvation and winter and Indians.  In addition there was a much greater understanding of the bigger picture back then.  People did things to ensure that their children lived in a more stable, more law abiding country.  Things like, I don’t know, pledge your life your fortune and your sacred honor as you sign a letter telling the King of England you want a divorce.  It’s a basic fact that you can’t prepare a better place for your prosperity if you don’t have any.  I think the reason we don’t think about the future is the same reason women prefer dogs, that is, selfishness.  We want what we want right now and don’t consider the consequences, because we are just like children.

But the consequences of reality are such that if you and all the people around you don’t have children then soon there are no more people.   Except that there are other people who understand this and they are having tons of kids.  Eventually they win.  They win militarily, ideologically and religiously.  The powers and principalities and powers win. We as Christians are supposed to spread the gospel to all peoples of the earth.  In addition we are still bound by the covenants of Adam and Noah to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.  Jesus has saved us unto good works, he has conquered sin and freed us so that we can live on this earth as it was meant to be. One day our labor will determine our jobs in the new earth (Matthew 25:14-30).  God is glorified when good works are done on earth.  Being fruitful and multiplying and being good stewards of the earth are some of those good works.  Now God obviously can and does do whatever he wants with history.  But he could have just saved everyone or lined up everyone in the world and given them a choice between a relationship with him or rebellion, but he didn’t.  He built twelve men who built the Church who spread and spread.  He left it up to us to be and spread the Church.  Why let it fall apart when we have established it in any area?  Why let the minions of Satan reclaim ground because we were too lazy to have children and too dumb to plan for the future?

Because Muhammed did plan.  He saw the rise of Christianity and he took it and twisted it for his own purposes.  He created a tribal religion that appealed to the Arab people and appeals to what is basest in man, with plenty of rules to keep them busy.  Do you want to escape your poor humble life?  Join my tribe, Allah has promised me victory over all the tribes of the Earth.  He created a culture that glorified having children and all but guaranteed that they would follow the heresy of their parents.  Today 90 some odd percent of Muslim children become Muslims, while Christians hand half of their offspring over to the Atheists every generation.  The Christian populations of Europe halve every generation.  That means there is one grand child for every four grandparents.  Where as the Muslims are multiplying six fold.   The United States has just hit the tipping point.  Our birthrate is just at replacement.  Now I am not saying that every person in America is a true Christian, but they are Culturally, which is very important.  They don’t go on jihad, behead people who disagree with them nor kick dogs.  That is they are living on this earth and doing a heck of a lot more of what God intended for man before the fall than the Muhammedans are.  That is a good.  Sure it’s not as good as if they were solid Biblical Christians but it is better than the alternative.  Looking at the demographics it’s not hard to see what is going to happen shortly.

Interesting that the west is the first place that dogs were more than street vermin.  In the east they are wild scavengers that are the targets of kicks and rocks.  But Christians began cultivating wolves, ruling and subduing the earth, and now we have an amazing assortment of dogs for many purposes today.  So if you really love dogs you will have children and raise them up to be Christians, then dogs and all of this wonderful civilization will be possible in the future.  The alternative is love of self and love of Jihad.