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@Joseph
[quote]Global atheism would change exactly nothing. Human beings would still be animals whose most poweful instinct is survival ,expressed by profligate reproduction.[/quote]
I have very good news for you:humans are nor animals. The decision to father a child is one of the important ones in the lives of people,insofar that the birth is not accidental or produced by violence.
Being an important decision it is conditioned by a lot of individual,social,economic,spiritual and yes also by religious factors.
The great majority of people on earth still believe in a form or other in a supranatural force which governs their life and death and also the afterdeath,called currently as God.
Not only do they believe that they know the "will of God" but also the priests of all religions make sure to intervene in their lives by interpreting this will of God.
What I'm saying is not pure philosophy but facts of live .
If you are aquinted with basic principles of the so called abrahamic religions you'll know that the commandment by God of "reproduce and multiply "is one of the most important one.The most strict about this are the Muslims.While you'll find some christian or jewish priests anyhow openminded on the matter of birth control, a muslim priest who would dare to challenge this problem could expect to be severly punished ,even in extremis beheaded.
So if you take into consideration that the majority of the population on earth believes in one of the abrahamic religions you'll come to the conclusion that ,as I said, atheism or at least secularism plays
among others, an impeding role in the growth of birth rate. I dare say that never will the government of a country be able to implement birth control so long as the religion of this country will have a decisive political role in it.
@Joseph
[quote]Global atheism would change exactly nothing. Human beings would still be animals whose most poweful instinct is survival ,expressed by profligate reproduction.[/quote]
I have very good news for you:humans are nor animals. The decision to father a child is one of the important ones in the lives of people,insofar that the birth is not accidental or produced by violence.
Being an important decision it is conditioned by a lot of individual,social,economic,spiritual and yes also by religious factors.
The great majority of people on earth still believe in a form or other in a supranatural force which governs their life and death and also the afterdeath,called currently as God.
Not only do they believe that they know the "will of God" but also the priests of all religions make sure to intervene in their lives by interpreting this will of God.
What I'm saying is not pure philosophy but facts of live .
If you are aquinted with basic principles of the so called abrahamic religions you'll know that the commandment by God of "reproduce and multiply "is one of the most important one.The most strict about this are the Muslims.While you'll find some christian or jewish priests anyhow openminded on the matter of birth control, a muslim priest who would dare to challenge this problem could expect to be severly punished ,even in extremis beheaded.
So if you take into consideration that the majority of the population on earth believes in one of the abrahamic religions you'll come to the conclusion that ,as I said, atheism or at least secularism plays
among others, an impeding role in the growth of birth rate. I dare say that never will the government of a country be able to implement birth control so long as the religion of this country will have a decisive political role in it.
