Attention All Christians: Children Needed



          Jesus said to his disciples when speaking of the Last Days in Matthew 24: "And because lawlessness (Sin) will be increased, the love of many will grow cold." And Paul wrote in his second letter to Timothy about "Godlessness" in the Last Days as well: " But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self (selfish?), lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people."

          Are we "such people?" If Judgment begins with the House of God and discerning the times is a command (Matt 24:42), then what should we make of the following? The Population Research Institute says the Western world (Christendom) is facing a crisis as virtually every country has birth rates well below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman. A pro-family organization has concluded that if the Western world wants to survive, it better start having more children. The Population Research Institute (PRI) says virtually every Western or Westernized nation on the planet is slowly dying off because birth rates have fallen below the 2.1-child-per-woman replacement level.

          PRI spokesman Joseph D'Agostino says "It's because Christians and Jews are refusing to have children, refusing to get married, and having such low birth rates that the Muslims are going to inherit the Earth," he explains. "It's not anything the Muslims are doing; it's what Christians and Jews are not doing." He further notes that it is only through immigration that the U.S. population continues to grow -- and that the current situation begs a pragmatic solution: "If you don't want the world to turn into Saudi Arabia, maybe people other than Muslims need to start having some kids at the rate the Muslims are having kids.