That would be great. Thanks. It hasn’t been long since I realized that not all anglo-saxons are evil heretics or freemasons. This blog has been a great factor in changing my mind.

A Spaniard

T. Amicus

Well just to be fair I never equivocated abortion, contraception, nihilism to the Bubonic plague. I simply observing Europe has experienced dramatic drops in population before and returned victorious. However you nicely contrasted the two to show how one is much more insipid and how the causes of the drops have different effects.

The Muslim factor is present but from what I understand is they are mostly impoverished. I am not trying to say that this diminishes the threat, but their social and financial position does have some effect on their power. I think this effect would be adverse to them.

However, I think that until Europe restores its fundamentally Catholic culture, we can expect more of the same nonsense. However, I think the revival of Tridentine practices and culture, especially the mass is a massive step in the right direction. Thus my hope…

Jurist: Good point! They’re not doing well by many of those who share 100% of their genes.

About the black plague . . . the trouble is, first, that the birthrate affects different portions of the population differently. So while the rich, white, atheists are having no children at all, the recently arrived Muslims are having children. So more and more, the Muslim population will be in a position to assert power. So good or bad, there’s just that observation.

Steyn wants to press upon the economic structures that they have in place: whatever race or religion the population may be, it’s aging. This puts pressure upon a socialist system which requires tax dollars to go around. Britain is better off in this regard than the Continent, but the same pressures exist for any country with a socialist set up and a dwindling supply of tax payers. How disastrous this will be, I don’t know, but the bare bones of the problem seem pretty clear.

Are abortion and contraception and nihilism like the Black Death? I don’t think so. It seems like the plague would take people from all age groups in society, but especially from the young and the old. But it wouldn’t concentrate all its attack upon the infants and children.

Whereas today, while improving longevity, we’re also cutting, by highly effective methods, the numbers of people entering at the other end of the line, I mean, babies.

Perhaps explaining something of the pressure for euthanasia now as well. If they trim equally on both ends, that may keep the check books balanced - but they still have to worry about the Muslims.

“The party’s argument was that human Spaniards do, after all, share 98.4 percent of their genes with chimpanzees, 97.7 percent with gorillas, and 96.4 percent with orangutans.”

Umm…what about the unborn children who share 100 percent of their genes with the human Spaniards? Why shouldn’t they included in “the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently is enjoyed only by human beings” Gotta love that line of reasoning.

I am not as pessimistic for Europe as most (maybe I should be). They have suffered considerable population drops in the past. The black plague killing a third of Europe comes to mind.

Even if global warming is a threat(and I am not convinced that it is), phasing out humanity is not a moral option, nor is it the only possible solution. Perhaps we ought to look for ways of sustaining human life without destroying the atmosphere? A little less convenient, mayhap, but surely a better course in the long run.

My dear Aus Blog, I don’t know what faith you subscribe to, but you surely realize that we Catholics want not only less abortions in the world (actually, we don’t want any abortions) but also more babies. We also favor having less fornication and adultery. If unmarried people stop having sex, and married ones start having babies, there’ll be no need for birth control, and there will be less sin and more children in the world. Everybody wins.

Noble Spaniard, I admire your forlorn patriotism even in such sorrowful times. Would it be acceptable if we henceforth referred to the present government and population of Spain as pseudo-Spaniards?

Memolink, you did realize that this was a Mark Steyn quote, right? And he’s not a Catholic, unfortunately, so he probably isn’t going to be agitating for the return of the Latin Mass anytime soon. But I agree with Deep Thought, that none of the three things you mention seem objectionable, and the last seems very obviously needed.

i have no doubt that God uses islam to punish us for our sins. at least they don’t tolerate homo marriage, abortion, or contraceptives. spain and france’s agenda of tolerance is allowing islam to dominate them, again. what a bunch of gay dumb-asses.

I am a rpoud member of the world’s *largest* religion, I speak a little Latin, and I would like to point out that, at current birthrates, it looks like the Church is going to out-live Enlightenment Europe quite handily.

Sweet Dreams, Iranon

So, in sum, we need to a) stop worrying about global warming b) reassert our supremacy over the Apes and c) begin producing more young workers NOW.

Perhaps returning to a dead religion in a dead language is a good idea for all involved, considering your implied ability to isolate problems and non-problems.

A Spaniard

3,500 per day / 1.3 million per year in America alone.

50% of that 1.3 million claimed failed birth control was to blame.

A further 48% had failed to use any birth control at all.

And 2% had medical reasons.

That means a stagering 98% may have been avoided had an effective birth control been used.