TWO news items caught my attention
recently. One warned
that for the first time in human history, people 65 years old and
older will outnumber children under 5 years of age, and the other was
the recent cover story of Time Magazine that said porn is a threat to
virility.
The immediate thought that came to mind was that these
obviously are consequences when nature and God’s laws are tampered
with. They are a comeuppance when we play around with nature and God’s
laws and follow our own whims and caprices instead. We reap what we
sow.
The first item declared that by 2020, this gloomy trend
toward an aging global population will have taken place and will just
become worse from then on. It is said, at least in theory, that when a
country goes below the population replacement rate, the trend becomes
irreversible.
“By 2050,” affirmed the U.S. Census Bureau that made the
global demographic study, “the proportion of the population 65 and
older (15.6%) will be more than double that of children under age 5
(7.2%).”
Who will now take care of the old folks when the
productive sector of the population is smaller than the sector to be
taken care of? I suppose that when this problem starts to make its
bite and sting felt, some of our bright boys may start thinking of
euthanasia and the like. We should be thinking instead of repentance
and conversion.
The study further stated that the 25 countries mostly
affected by this horrific trend are, first, Japan, followed by 22
European countries and Canada and Puerto Rico. These are the countries
that have installed intense population control programs and have, in
fact, made population control part of their culture.
I would not be surprised if China, though still having a
big population in absolute terms, is entering in that direction. Its
two-child policy is just a terrible thing to have. Same with Singapore
that somehow has repented from their intensive population control
program decades ago. Now it is cajoling its people, giving all kinds
of incentives, to reproduce more. Let’s wish them luck.
We in our country have to learn our lessons from this
disturbing world development. While we have to contend with all sorts
of economic, social and political problems, not to mention, to cope
with an aggressive liberal ideology that calls for unrestrained
population control, we should avoid falling into the same policy that
only gives at best some short-term breather but assures us of
long-term and permanent disaster.
Yes, we have poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, etc., but
all these do not warrant a systematic program of population control,
not averse to using artificial means and other coercive measures.
Blaming our population for these problems is a very
simplistic way of resolving our national issues. We have to move away
from that mindset. We should be wary of the temptation to make
unnatural and sinful short-cuts to solve our problems. Population
control is a false solution to these problems.
The second news item that caught my attention made me
chuckle to realize that at last a liberal magazine like Time has
finally taken note of the danger of pornography. Though I have not
read the report online since it was restricted only to its
subscribers, I can only express some satisfaction that it is
discovering what our Christian faith has long time ago established.
I still have to find out what it means by virility and how
porn can constitute a threat to it. For all we know, it most likely
may just peg these concepts to the animal part of our being without
making any reference to our spiritual nature and our supernatural end.
I find Time, like all the other liberal magazines, averse
to making any spiritual and supernatural references to its studies and
researches, perhaps because of its thinking that such references would
belie the scientific nature of their efforts. Hardly anything else can
be farther than the truth.
But then again, we should just be happy that at last there
are signs that these liberal outlets are acknowledging something that
point somehow to the spiritual, moral and supernatural character of
our life.
Pornography, for sure, debases our humanity. It perverts
our masculinity and femininity. By simply arousing venereal pleasures,
it extricates our human sexuality from its basic purpose of love and
self-giving.
It will not be long before we begin to suffer the dire
consequences of this disorder. We become slaves of our passions just
as we destroy the powers of our superior faculties of intelligence and
will that ultimately need to be fed by faith, hope and charity.
that for the first time in human history, people 65 years old and
older will outnumber children under 5 years of age, and the other was
the recent cover story of Time Magazine that said porn is a threat to
virility.
The immediate thought that came to mind was that these
obviously are consequences when nature and God’s laws are tampered
with. They are a comeuppance when we play around with nature and God’s
laws and follow our own whims and caprices instead. We reap what we
sow.
The first item declared that by 2020, this gloomy trend
toward an aging global population will have taken place and will just
become worse from then on. It is said, at least in theory, that when a
country goes below the population replacement rate, the trend becomes
irreversible.
“By 2050,” affirmed the U.S. Census Bureau that made the
global demographic study, “the proportion of the population 65 and
older (15.6%) will be more than double that of children under age 5
(7.2%).”
Who will now take care of the old folks when the
productive sector of the population is smaller than the sector to be
taken care of? I suppose that when this problem starts to make its
bite and sting felt, some of our bright boys may start thinking of
euthanasia and the like. We should be thinking instead of repentance
and conversion.
The study further stated that the 25 countries mostly
affected by this horrific trend are, first, Japan, followed by 22
European countries and Canada and Puerto Rico. These are the countries
that have installed intense population control programs and have, in
fact, made population control part of their culture.
I would not be surprised if China, though still having a
big population in absolute terms, is entering in that direction. Its
two-child policy is just a terrible thing to have. Same with Singapore
that somehow has repented from their intensive population control
program decades ago. Now it is cajoling its people, giving all kinds
of incentives, to reproduce more. Let’s wish them luck.
We in our country have to learn our lessons from this
disturbing world development. While we have to contend with all sorts
of economic, social and political problems, not to mention, to cope
with an aggressive liberal ideology that calls for unrestrained
population control, we should avoid falling into the same policy that
only gives at best some short-term breather but assures us of
long-term and permanent disaster.
Yes, we have poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, etc., but
all these do not warrant a systematic program of population control,
not averse to using artificial means and other coercive measures.
Blaming our population for these problems is a very
simplistic way of resolving our national issues. We have to move away
from that mindset. We should be wary of the temptation to make
unnatural and sinful short-cuts to solve our problems. Population
control is a false solution to these problems.
The second news item that caught my attention made me
chuckle to realize that at last a liberal magazine like Time has
finally taken note of the danger of pornography. Though I have not
read the report online since it was restricted only to its
subscribers, I can only express some satisfaction that it is
discovering what our Christian faith has long time ago established.
I still have to find out what it means by virility and how
porn can constitute a threat to it. For all we know, it most likely
may just peg these concepts to the animal part of our being without
making any reference to our spiritual nature and our supernatural end.
I find Time, like all the other liberal magazines, averse
to making any spiritual and supernatural references to its studies and
researches, perhaps because of its thinking that such references would
belie the scientific nature of their efforts. Hardly anything else can
be farther than the truth.
But then again, we should just be happy that at last there
are signs that these liberal outlets are acknowledging something that
point somehow to the spiritual, moral and supernatural character of
our life.
Pornography, for sure, debases our humanity. It perverts
our masculinity and femininity. By simply arousing venereal pleasures,
it extricates our human sexuality from its basic purpose of love and
self-giving.
It will not be long before we begin to suffer the dire
consequences of this disorder. We become slaves of our passions just
as we destroy the powers of our superior faculties of intelligence and
will that ultimately need to be fed by faith, hope and charity.
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