Saturday, June 8, 2024
Generation Zero: Why the World Is Running Out of Babies by Gary Isbell June 6, 2024
Generation Zero: Why the World Is Running Out of Babies
Past generations have been named with letters such as X-Generation and Gen-Z. The latest generation has already been labeled Alpha. Perhaps the one after that should take the name Generation Zero.
The reason will be the lack of babies to make a generation. A demographic winter approaches. Birth control and abortion have achieved the goal of ridding society of unwanted pregnancies as societal attitudes have taken away the desire for pregnancies.
The word is now out. Overpopulation is not a threat. Underpopulation, reflected in declining global birthrates, has reached a critical point, signaling a demographic crisis.
Fertility rates are plummeting worldwide, posing significant religious, economic, social and geopolitical challenges. This “baby bust” phenomenon primarily impacts every segment of society, regardless of income, education or employment status.
The implications are profound, affecting lifestyle choices, economic projections and the global balance of power. Many nations have already plummeted far below the replacement fertility rate of 2.2 children per woman.
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Projections forecast a global population decline within the next four decades, a rare historical event. Political leaders recognize this as a pressing issue with implications for social vitality and long-term sustainability.
Even India and Third World nations that normally have high birth rates are experiencing a significant population decline. Urbanization and the internet have exposed women to the possibility of having fewer or no children and enjoying greater pleasure.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the percentage of women using contraception increased from 17 to 23 percent in the last ten years. This shift can be attributed to African leaders promoting contraception and abortion and the Western programs promoting these practices.
Many associate this decline in birth rates with an unhealthy shift towards selfishness and individualism, resulting in a reduced emphasis on marriage, family and parenthood. Other factors include state laws, unemployment rates, Medicaid availability, housing costs, contraceptive usage, child-care costs and student debt.
However, none of these factors address the root cause. Observers speculate that the root is found deep inside the human soul. This shift is, above all, the result of a moral crisis in which all priorities are scrambled and a sense of direction and purpose is lost.
Thus, adult personal preferences now prioritize building careers, leisure activities and relationships outside the home. The fundamental mandate to “Go forth and multiply” is replaced by selfish considerations.
Governments worldwide are grappling with declining fertility rates by implementing pro-natalist policies. Japan has implemented incentives for births since the early nineties, including parental leave and subsidized child care. However, birth rates continue to fall.
Japan later introduced free hospital maternity care and birth stipends that temporarily raised fertility rates from 1.26 to 1.45 over a period of years. However, the rates continue to decline, reaching 1.26 in 2022. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently unveiled a program offering monthly allowances to all children under 18, free college for families with three or more children and paid parental leave to encourage more births.
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The problem with all these efforts is that they try to apply financial solutions to moral issues. Families will not have children solely based on monetary incentives.
Thus, financial incentives will always fall short since couples must be motivated by the love of God to make the necessary sacrifice of having children. Free daycare, maternity leave and monthly allowances are helpful but do not address the root cause, which is selfishness.
A direct correlation exists between the loss of religious values and declining birth rates. The decline of religion leads to fewer marriages, which have a primary end of procreation, not pleasure. In the Catholic Church, marriage is a sacrament that provides couples with the graces to sustain themselves and their families.
The crisis inside the Catholic Church contributes to this decline since many liberal clergymen have turned a blind eye to contraception, abortion and moral virtue to concentrate on “social justice” issues.
Due to the neglect of traditional Church teaching, a significant number of Catholics are divorced, “re-married,” practice contraception, favor same-sex “marriage,” cease going to Mass, do not believe in the Real Presence in Holy Communion or have abandoned their faith altogether. This is the perfect storm that will produce Generation Zero.
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The Little Known LBGTQ – D-Day Invasion Connection They are celebrating the wrong thing… JIM MCCRAIGH JUN 8
While the LGBTQ crowd is prancing pridefully in the streets this month, I suspect that many of them likely have no clue that this month marks another far more important event… the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, attack on German troop positions in France. D-Day, as it was called, was the largest military assault in history. Countless books and movies have been based on that world-altering event that led to the eventual defeat of NAZI Germany less than a year later. So, why would any of that be important to LGBTQ PRIDE advocates? Beginning in 1933, Hitler’s Nazi regime set out to eliminate all homosexuality in Germany. Those arrested were either presumed guilty or tortured to elicit a confession. Before Germany’s defeat, over 50,000 homosexuals were sentenced to prison or sent to concentration camps. Others were summarily executed on the spot. No one deserves that… The June 1944 D-Day invasion has been called the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. When American and Allied troops reached the newly abandoned concentration camps in Germany, homosexuals who survived were freed, along with Jews, Gypsies, and Christians. But there is more to the story… The D-Day invasion was largely successful American Faith & Freedom is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. because of the stunning deception Americans and their allies pulled off during the months before the D-Day invasion. Known as the Fortitude Deception, it significantly shortened the war. Some of the declassified details of the Fortitude Plan were shared with me more than three decades after the war by my late friend Tony March, who was one of General George Patton’s drivers. I recounted his story in my book, Deceived No More. As Tony put it, “The deception was designed to mislead the Germans about the intended location of the planned attack. Our guys used plywood, fabric, and other things to create fake tanks and aircraft. These were staged to confuse German intelligence. It made it look like we had more tanks than they did... and led them to believe that Pas-de-Calais, France was the site of the planned offensive rather than Normandy Beach.” The deception also included fake landing crafts staged at ports in England where the Germans could see them. They even deployed inflatable Sherman tanks, which they moved to different locations under the cover of night and used rollers to simulate tire tracks. The Americans then used fake radio traffic that was meant to be intercepted by Germans. The Allied forces went to great lengths during World War II, even enlisting the help of Lieutenant Clifton James, an Australian actor who bore a remarkable resemblance to Bernard Montgomery, to impersonate the British general. After studying Montgomery's mannerisms, James donned one of the general’s uniforms and flew to Gibraltar in May 1944, a trip intended to deceive German intelligence. But the crowning jewel of the deceit was the use of General George Patton as a decoy. Nazi military leaders considered him the Allies’ best commander and expected he would lead any cross-channel invasion. As part of the elaborate disinformation campaign leading up to D-Day, Patton was placed in command of this phantom army to make it appear he would invade at the channel’s narrowest point, Pas de Calais. While the Germans were focused on Pas de Calais, the actual attack happened at Normandy, France. Even weeks after D-Day, the Germans continued to amass troops at Pas de Calais, expecting that Patton would still come ashore there. The success of the first D-day landings allowed more than 325,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles, and some 100,000 tons of equipment to go ashore. Sadly, 4000 Allied troops lost their lives that day and many more were wounded. But perhaps today’s Satanically influenced LBGTQ types are too narcissistic and deceived to care about that or what those on the side of good accomplished on that day… or even what the eternal consequences of their own behaviors might be. They devote not only
the whole of June to parading their perversion before children, but now LGBTQ celebrations take up fully one-third of the year. This country gives over only three days a year (Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Armed Forces Day) to honor the sacrifices (including their lives) members of our military have made to ensure the freedoms that those perverted LGBTQ advocates continue to abuse. LBGTQ types are celebrating the WRONG things. They have elevated the celebration of their perverted sexual practices above the sacrifices of those men and women who have been killed or wounded defending this country's freedoms. Apparently, they are oblivious to the sacrifices made to maintain our freedoms of speech, assembly, and association. Instead of celebrating their “pride”, they should be humbly thankful for what others have done for them. Pray they turn to Christ before it is too late…
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