Watch and tell me your thoughts.

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Megan Meisberger
River Hills Community Church - EFCA (yes... same as charliejunfan)
Janesville, WI

Wife of matt.meisberger

<---- Naming my first son after him. My husband was saved while reading Religious Affections.

I would really have to know more about where thet get their statistics and sources before I commented.

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Kathleen M
nondenominational
Montana

I'm waiting to get the DVD from a friend. After I watch it maybe I can be more helpful.

Yes, do tell us what you think. I've seen a lot of overblown hysteria about declining population- without appropriate statistics. I'm not saying its not happening, but I've yet to hear anything that convinces me that we're dying out.

I saw this a while back, but all I could find when I googled it was lots of uber-left wingers trashing it, also without reliable stats.

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Catherine
PCA
Waldorf, MD

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good,
and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
Proverbs 16:20 ESV

Really? They're on about declining population now? *sigh* I thought the 'popular' world-is-soon-doomed theories were climate change and overpopulation. I have, over the last few years, been in several rather heated arguments about how in twenty to fifty years the earth will be overpopulated and we'll all starve, blah blah blah.
I just had a discussion about overpopulation with a coworker a couple weeks back.
I guess this is a breath of fresh air...or something.

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Dave
Attendee Chilliwack Heritage Reformed
Abbotsford, Canadia

"God does not love us the way we are! God loves us so that we can become what He wants us to be." - George Grant

Zero population growth happens at a particular level of births. From a very simplistic standpoint, if every person on average has exact 1 child then there is zero population growth. Of course that would mean that married families have to have more than 2 children in order to maintain zero growth (remember, zero growth does not mean negative growth). Some people do not have children either because of incapacity or choice. Even some that have children, the children do not survive to reproductive age themselves.

While zero growth clearly requires those couples that have children to have more than two, the exact level is somewhat fluid (based mainly on how many of those children have children). I personally like the fact that liberals tend to have smaller families than conservatives ... we replace them over time!

The startling news is that while the west has fewer children as a whole, the Muslim world has more children. Okay, Christian couples! Have more babies! (I tell my eldest that all the time! I want grandchildren!)

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Brian Withnell
Deacon, OPC
Leesburg, Virginia

You cannot train for war in the midst of a battle. Prepare before the battle starts; if the battle is long and hard, you will wish you had.

An excellent book on the subject of population is

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Adam B., Wine Country, California, PCA

"I fear not to hold with Junius, de Politia Mosis cap. 6, that he who was punishable by death under that Judicial law, is punishable by death still; and he who was not punished by death then, is not to be punished by death now."

Whatever's behind the motivation of the video or to the reliability of its statistics, I cannot say.

However, what I can say, and shamefully so, is it seems our modern "civilized" cultures look down upon that building block of civilization known as family. As a result, there's constant animosity and assaults on marriage, then more particularly assaults on children. Sure, there are lots of jokes out there to make us laugh away about how we feel about children, but the joke grows old. The constant implications, gratings, and subtle allusions to how children are a burden, or we can never have time alone b/c of them, etc. should repulse Christians. Same thing goes for the ole' "Ball & Chains" rhetoric when it comes to marriage. We may laugh about it now, but it won't be funny later. The thing is that it's just been one subtle attack after another, to the point that we've been so desensitized to the assaults on marriage and family, and so we can laugh it away. May the Lord have mercy on our callousness toward the marriage-hating and family-hating that is so ubiquitously pervasive in our day.

*Note: I am not speaking about every individual person without exception, but about the general attitude and thought of our culture as a whole.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCGA
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry

According to some sources, it's not mankind that is dwindling in numbers, at least in the West - it's only the non-Muslim part of it.
I'm no demographics expert. Mark Steyn has a book called America Alone which I believe gives some business-like statistics.

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JennyG
Church of Scotland (Presbyterian)
Fife, Scotland