#87485 - childfree pandemic

[Portia]

This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

The end.

[Portia]

Followed as it is by the Ted Bundy Mormon Husband idea (yikes!?!), perhaps this would be a sort of dystopia.

[Cognoscente]

This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought too when I read that quote. It's patently absurd on its face, and even defending it by ascribing it to secular/wealthier societies bearing fewer children is a huge stretch. There's a difference between western society's total fertility rate equalizing at 2.0 children, and only Latter-day Saint women being willing to have children. LDS culture already doesn't do itself any favors by popular claims that only our church feels the "real" spirit and those feelings only testify of "our" truths. Let's not begin to claim for ourselves procreation itself.

[Zedability]

Let's not begin to claim for ourselves procreation itself.

But only church-sanctioned, never-even-talked-about-until-marriage, safely vanilla procreation. Nothing "unnatural," and no delaying it for "worldly things."

[Portia]

Also the fertility of non-white, non-United States and Canada women doesn't count shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Shrinky Dink]

I also find it annoying that whenever something mentions righteous people in the last days, it is assumed that LDS people are going to be the only righteous ones. It kind of perpetuates a holier-than-thou attitude and is completely false. Contrary to what some people may believe, you can be a good person without believing in God and you can be a bad person who believes in God.