The Ticking Time Bomb

Big Problems Ahead! Our fifth news article in this issue of the Hosken-News e-newsletter, UNDERSTANDING A MORE RELIGIOUS AND ASSERTIVE RUSSIA, mentions "Russia's new law against proselyting homosexual orientation to minors and its new anti-abortion law. Both laws also respond to Russia's demographic struggle with plunging birth rates and monstrously high abortion rates that date to Soviet rule." The former law is frequently referred to as Russia's anti-homosexual law, but that's not quite correct: Russia has an active homosexual community, and they are legally allowed to practice their lifestyle. What the new law takes aim at is the rising efforts by homosexual activists in Russia and worldwide to proselytize and propagandize especially among young people in an effort to recruit the youth. Both church and state in Russia have realized what a dangerous mistake it is to promote homosexuality and abortion under the guise of "personal choice" and "individual freedom."

Human sexuality is not merely a private, individual issue: it affects society as a whole. In fact, it is foundational for society's existence. Pro-LGBT advocates speak of "society" as if it were a fixed object that will magically continue to exist even if not enough people reproduce. But when the birth rate drops below 2.1 babies for each adult woman, a society cannot maintain its population level. And when the birth rate drops below 1.8 babies for each adult woman for an extended period, that society is almost certainly headed for self-destruction. So that means there is a fairly narrow range of 0.3 births per woman that defines the difference between population stability and societal suicide. Russia's birth rate has been well below 1.8 for the past 30 years or so, resulting in not enough young men to serve in the military, not enough young workers to support the retirees, and not enough taxpayers to support the state.

This is "The Ticking Time Bomb" - the demographic bomb that is set to go off in Eastern and Western Europe, as well as in the United States and China (recall China's "one child" policy?). The demographic curve is moving up on the right side of the graph, and is much lower on the left side. This is the way the world ends, not with an explosion, but with a whimper. When the post-war baby boomers all retire, those people from families of five or six children, those same baby boomers' one- or two-child families will have an extremely difficult time taking care of them. And when you add to this homosexuals and lesbians not producing any babies and the ghastly practice of aborting hundreds of millions of unborn babies, you have a lethal combination for any society.

The countries of the former Soviet Union - Russia, Belarus Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltics - all understand this demographic "Ticking Time Bomb" and are undertaking measures to disallow the proselyting of homosexual orientation to minors and to significantly reduce the number of abortions. They learned a bitter lesson from the disaster of communism, and are experiencing a spiritual reawakening and a return to the values of original Christianity. Russia just might be able to pull itself back from the brink of demographic extinction. The question is: will the West return to its Christian heritage and recognize the foolishness of promoting homosexuality and abortion, in time to avoid falling over the brink?

(Linked to www.Hosken-News.info of 13 Apr. 2014.)