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Ask HN: Do people who fear the afterlife avoid having children?
In particular, maybe they don’t want to have children who might also fear the afterlife?
- bell-cot 4y agoYou might want to check on birth rates ~2 centuries ago, when (at least in the U.S.) belief in a literal burning-fires-of-hell afterlife was far more common than it is today.
- PaulHoule 4y agoSome populations of religious people (Mormons in Utah, Ultra-Orthodox Jewish people in Israel) seem to have more children than average.