Has the church begun to balk on her duty to uphold and protect the truth? Is the church crumbling to outside pressure to be conformed to the world? How will the battle for ideas be lost? It won’t be through procreation, but it will be through the church bending the knee to another lord other than Christ.

It’s been recent news that the global birth rate has plummeted over the last few years. Women in the United States are, on average, having a record low of about 1.6 children per woman. To put this into perspective, in order to simply replace the population, birth rates should be about 2.1 children per woman. One observation from the Pew Research Center is that Christians in the United States have a birth rate of about 2.2, which is higher than the religiously unaffiliated and those in other religions. (Globally, this is even more pronounced). Why the birth rates are declining is a topic for debate. (For what it’s worth, I’d be interested to know if there is a correlating rise in selfishness with the fall of births). But what isn’t up for debate is that birth rates are declining.

Ideas

And while birth rates are falling, ideas continue. Ideas have a way of creeping into societies and universities and families, and for some reason, bad ideas seem to spread more easily. In the following decades, we are going to see secular families cease to be replaced, while Christian families will continue to grow. But Christianity is not spread by genetics. Christianity spreads by proclamation. Not only that, but good Christian doctrine does not spread by osmosis. Just because you’ve been around good teaching doesn’t mean you will absorb good teaching for yourself. So Christian families may flourish, but will Christian ideas?

Think about it: Those people who push the worst ideas on the culture (i.e. the woke relativist that turns everything into a race/sex/etc conversation) will literally not replace themselves physically. So how will their ideas survive? They will survive by passing on their values to the next generation through a different means. They will pass on their ideas through Facebook and X. They use the media to push a narrative that is an assault to truth. They will pass on their ideas by guilt shaming others for holding a different opinion. Their ideas spread when all pushback seems archaic and backwards and oppressive. The cultures that are the least likely to survive, somehow become the chief propagators of ideas.

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