People are actually practicing population control. For instance, average married woman in 17th century America gave birth to thirteen children.
And today it's rare that people have over three children, even over two is sometimes seen as weird, so people are doing something. But I do agree that conservatives are pretending like there is nothing happening and go batshit crazy when someone mentions "population control".
Reason why people are having less children is because people live longer and have more chances of surviving childhood. For instance, there is a data compiled in 1790 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, the prominent physician, that indicate how of a hundred people born in a given year in Philadelphia more than one-third died before the age of six and only one-quarter lived beyond the age of twenty-six.
And today it's rare that people have over three children, even over two is sometimes seen as weird, so people are doing something. But I do agree that conservatives are pretending like there is nothing happening and go batshit crazy when someone mentions "population control".
Reason why people are having less children is because people live longer and have more chances of surviving childhood. For instance, there is a data compiled in 1790 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, the prominent physician, that indicate how of a hundred people born in a given year in Philadelphia more than one-third died before the age of six and only one-quarter lived beyond the age of twenty-six.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
