> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. Th

> a Protestant culture which places a lot of religious and moral significance on conceiving human life Er, that would be more characteristic of Catholicism. There's a reason for this Monty Python skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgHHhw_6g8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifgHHhw_6g8. Francis Galton, a product of a thoroughly Protestant society, was already worrying about the negative correlation between socioeconomic status and fertility very shortly after the Industrial Revolution.