It's Friday,

Friday, September 13, 2024.

I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Well, we've been talking about this for some time,

and we're going to come back to it again and again.

One of the biggest moral issues of our day, an issue that should be front line in terms of the concerns

of Christians is a falling birth rate, in one sense a falling birth rate all over the world.

In particular, a catastrophically falling birth rate in certain places such as just for example

South Korea. It is also a falling birth rate even among evangelical Christians, even among

traditional Roman Catholics and others who had been very much resistant to this kind of trend

until all the sudden it appears that across the board a lower birth rate is becoming a huge problem. Now when we talk of it as a huge

problem we're talking about the fact that well just to put it in ultimate terms you

don't have a future for your civilization if you're not having babies. I mean it's as simple as that.

But it's actually even more complex than that because on the one hand say the practical

side, a falling birth rate means you're not going to have enough workers. You're going to have more

aging people who are aging out of the workplace than you're going to have younger people

aging into the workplace. That's catastrophic. And frankly frankly there isn't a society on the

planet that's prepared for that. Just look at what's going on in Japan where

they are this isn't a joke. They are increasingly using robots in order to take care of people in nursing homes.

And we're looking at a deeply sad, even tragic development from a Christian worldview perspective, what kind of world is so sad

that you have a falling birth rate like this?

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