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A curious argument for the propogation of the faith: for white people to have more children.
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There is a social policy argument to be made that sure, religion and the afterlife, its all dogmatic bullshit. But if you look at societies in which people largely abandoned these primitive and outmoded dogmas, one of the dogmas that they seem to also abandon at the same time is attachment to having children, to maintaining stable family structures in which children can most productively be raised. So, in fact as a society we do have an interest in the diffusion and continuation of religious dogma because otherwise we will wind up with a society of elderly childless atheist overlords who are being kept alive by stem-cell implants and supported by masses of God-fearing brown people who work for pennies on their plantations.
-- David Samuels at TabletMag.com
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I suspect the birth dearth has more to do with economics than with concern about the state of one's soul. Though, I suppose that faith may help one to be more optimistic, and hence to continue the family line. In any case, I do not think that you can regenerate faith in a culture. The greater fear, I should think, is that the impoverished brown people will take matters one step further and wipe out the lingering remnants of white people and their overlordship.
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There is a social policy argument to be made that sure, religion and the afterlife, its all dogmatic bullshit. But if you look at societies in which people largely abandoned these primitive and outmoded dogmas, one of the dogmas that they seem to also abandon at the same time is attachment to having children, to maintaining stable family structures in which children can most productively be raised. So, in fact as a society we do have an interest in the diffusion and continuation of religious dogma because otherwise we will wind up with a society of elderly childless atheist overlords who are being kept alive by stem-cell implants and supported by masses of God-fearing brown people who work for pennies on their plantations.
-- David Samuels at TabletMag.com
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I suspect the birth dearth has more to do with economics than with concern about the state of one's soul. Though, I suppose that faith may help one to be more optimistic, and hence to continue the family line. In any case, I do not think that you can regenerate faith in a culture. The greater fear, I should think, is that the impoverished brown people will take matters one step further and wipe out the lingering remnants of white people and their overlordship.
