Demographic Winter

On Saturday night at a friends house my wife and I watched a documentary that was quite profound. The message that it presented was quite the opposite of that which our expectations dictated (in a good way). When one sits down to listen to a bunch of University of Chicago and other secular "scholarly" professors talk about demographics the first thing that would pop into most minds would be "overpopulation". I expected to hear things like how in X number of years we would have to practice euthanasia to regulate the worlds population, enforce birth control, etc. The first mental image that came to my mind was Ted Turner if that tells you anything.

Demographic Winter says that we (United States, Russia, Europe & others) are going to be looking at third world country status in one to at best two generations because we can't repopulate ourselves. It proposes that the reasons we are actually declining in population and experiencing economic disperity are due to: immature males who are 18-25+ living at their mommas house playing Xbox's (or what ever the current video game console is) instead of working and establishing their own family, fatherless homes, one parent homes, hostility between parents in two parent homes, women working outside the home, higher education, cohabitation, premarital sex, and my personal favorite - faithless societies. THESE ARE THE GOD HATING LIBERALS THAT WE HEAR ATHEISTIC GARBAGE FROM DAY IN AND DAY OUT!!! How they arrive at these conclusions without embracing Christian faith is beyond me, so you can imagine my jaw-dropping reaction when they started citing these faults as causing the demographic problems we face as a society.

Demographic Winner not only gets the problems right but even more astonishing they conclude with the right solution that says it will be families of faith raising up like minded offspring that will save our society and return prosperity to our culture!!! Again, how they arrive at these conclusions is amazing and to some extent leaves a question mark in my brain.

My review of this documentary doesn't do the documentary itself justice though. I would strongly advise families to watch and discuss this film together and find out where your family stands on this issue of demographics and reproduction. This is a wonderful tool to use when instilling in our children a proper worldview as it pertains to multiplying and being fruitful.

This is normally where I would insert any cautions to be on-the-look-out for when you are watching the film I am recommending to you, but I must say I incredulously have no criticism of the film itself. These professors and experts from secular outlets of policy analysis and education get it right in this documentary. The only kind of warning I can think of is that these "experts" only look at and speak about the data they are presenting rather than practicing what they preach. I would admonish you to not follow the idle example these "professionals" live out, but to practice the lessons that they teach in this film and be doers of this warning to our civilization and not hearers only. Anyone can be a back seat driver, a sideline athlete, or an armchair philosopher that only talks about what should be done and never does anything. We as people of God must be the ones to obey God's first charge to man when He told us to be fruitful and multiply and take dominion of the earth.

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