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The people who care most about that list of issues aren't reproducing biologically, and the progressive memeplex is having trouble finding new willing converts,
by Banthum 9y ago
The people who care most about that list of issues aren't reproducing biologically, and the progressive memeplex is having trouble finding new willing converts, since most of the people with a foundationally Christian belief system have already converted (and progressivism does not spread well to anyone else).
The world will be inherited by the people who show up - Amish, evangelicals, conservative Muslims, orthodox Jews, etc.
So you may be right about the 50 year time-span, but looking onto the 100+ year span, your list of issues should likely look more like:
-Public blasphemy
-Public acceptance of homosexuality
-Lack of God in government
-Allowance of abortion
etc.
Just because things have gone one way for a while doesn't mean they'll keep going that way. For better or for worse.
- magicalist 9y ago> The world will be inherited by the people who show up - Amish, evangelicals, conservative Muslims, orthodox Jews, etc. This isn't supported by basically any demographic trend.
- wtallis 9y agoThe birth rates draw a pretty clear picture. But you have to also take into account that some of those people get an education and end up with mainstream beliefs rather than propagating regressive extremism.
- mikeash 9y agoIt's more than some. A huge number of secular liberals were raised as religious conservatives. Religion and politics are not transmitted the way genetic attributes are. Obviously there's a greater chance that you'll end up like your parents, but it's far from a given. If being overwhelmed by demographics with higher birth rates was something that could actually happen, it already would have happened, and low-birthrate populations never would have occurred in the first place.