We all have some knowledge of History (for all too many, it is a scant knowledge). We are also familiar with the phrase: “Those who forget (or ignore) History are doomed to repeat it.” It is both important and significant when a current Historian - David Kaiser – shares some of his concerns and observations. David Kaiser is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College and has previously taught...Harvard University. He Observes: "I am a student of history…I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Something of historic proportions is happening…We learned…that the Federal Reserve…has loaned two trillion dollars over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?...We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman)…Our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt…"
Then there is a Muslim-Demographic Video released that gives rise to the possibility that the fertility rates in the world are askew and they will soon supplant national populations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU). It suggests that “Germany has the lowest birthrate in Europe, with an average of 1.36 children per woman. Despite government incentives to encourage larger families, the population is dropping rapidly and that trend will continue, with an expected loss of as much as 12 million by 2050. That would mean about a 15 percent drop from the country’s current population of 82.4 million, the German news source Deutsche Welle reported today. Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. The trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Muslim state by 2050…A Culture requires a fertility rate of no less than 2.11…Historically, no culture has ever reversed a 1.9 fertility rate…A rate of 1.3 is impossible to reverse…Nationmaster (which took it’s numbers from the CIA World Factbook) indicates: the actual fertility rates are: France -1.98; England - 1.66; Greece - 1.36; Germany - 1.41; Italy - 1.3; Spain - 1.3.” The concern raised is the prospect for demographic shifting throughout the world. An illustration given is that France currently has a fertility rate of 1.8 Children per family, whereas the Muslim fertility rate is 8.1…” At that rate, France would become a Muslim nation near the year 2025.
Consider these things with me - - - The latest data from the Population Reference Bureau shows there are 20 countries in the world with negative or zero natural population growth. This is unprecedented in history! The country with the highest decrease in the natural birth rate is Ukraine, with 0.8% each year. Ukraine is expected to lose 28% of their population between now and 2050 (from 46.8 million now to 33.4 million in 2050). Russia and Belarus follow close behind at a 0.6% natural decrease and Russia will lose 22% of their population by 2050 – that is a loss of more than 30 million people (from 142.3 million today to 110.3 million in 2050). Japan is the only non-European country in the list and it has a 0% natural birth increase and is expected to lose 21% of its population by 2050 (shrinking from 127.8 million to a mere 100.6 million in 2050). How does this square with the Cultural Mandate of Scripture? It doesn’t! In GENESIS 1:28-29, “So God created man in his own image…male and female…And God blessed them and said…Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Cultural Mandate means our original purpose was to create cultures, build civilizations and exercise adequate care for the created world. It never allowed or meant that ZPG would be an acceptable alternative or become a guideline to replace the Biblical Mandate!
Then there is a Muslim-Demographic Video released that gives rise to the possibility that the fertility rates in the world are askew and they will soon supplant national populations (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU). It suggests that “Germany has the lowest birthrate in Europe, with an average of 1.36 children per woman. Despite government incentives to encourage larger families, the population is dropping rapidly and that trend will continue, with an expected loss of as much as 12 million by 2050. That would mean about a 15 percent drop from the country’s current population of 82.4 million, the German news source Deutsche Welle reported today. Germany has one of the largest populations of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe, with a Muslim community of over 3 million. The trend is expected to continue, leading some demographic trend-watchers to warn that the country is well on the way to becoming a Muslim state by 2050…A Culture requires a fertility rate of no less than 2.11…Historically, no culture has ever reversed a 1.9 fertility rate…A rate of 1.3 is impossible to reverse…Nationmaster (which took it’s numbers from the CIA World Factbook) indicates: the actual fertility rates are: France -1.98; England - 1.66; Greece - 1.36; Germany - 1.41; Italy - 1.3; Spain - 1.3.” The concern raised is the prospect for demographic shifting throughout the world. An illustration given is that France currently has a fertility rate of 1.8 Children per family, whereas the Muslim fertility rate is 8.1…” At that rate, France would become a Muslim nation near the year 2025.
Consider these things with me - - - The latest data from the Population Reference Bureau shows there are 20 countries in the world with negative or zero natural population growth. This is unprecedented in history! The country with the highest decrease in the natural birth rate is Ukraine, with 0.8% each year. Ukraine is expected to lose 28% of their population between now and 2050 (from 46.8 million now to 33.4 million in 2050). Russia and Belarus follow close behind at a 0.6% natural decrease and Russia will lose 22% of their population by 2050 – that is a loss of more than 30 million people (from 142.3 million today to 110.3 million in 2050). Japan is the only non-European country in the list and it has a 0% natural birth increase and is expected to lose 21% of its population by 2050 (shrinking from 127.8 million to a mere 100.6 million in 2050). How does this square with the Cultural Mandate of Scripture? It doesn’t! In GENESIS 1:28-29, “So God created man in his own image…male and female…And God blessed them and said…Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Cultural Mandate means our original purpose was to create cultures, build civilizations and exercise adequate care for the created world. It never allowed or meant that ZPG would be an acceptable alternative or become a guideline to replace the Biblical Mandate!
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