Are babies stealing? According to news reports the Anglican Church thinks so. I’m not sure I understand how babies are stealing. I mean, they can’t even drive the getaway car.
But the General Synod of the Anglican Church, according to news reports, issued a warning that current rates of population growth are “unsustainable and potentially out of step with church doctrine – including the eighth commandment “thou shall not steal.'”
So having babies is like stealing? Huh? So where does that put God who kinda’ told us to “Go forth and multiply.”
SMH reported that “The Anglican Church wants Australians to have fewer children and has urged the federal government to scrap the baby bonus and cut immigration levels.”
If this is true the Anglican Church has gone mad. Do they not realize that Western civilization is more likely to disappear rather than overpopulate the world?
The Anglican Public Affairs Commission has also warned concerned Christians that remaining silent “is little different from supporting further overpopulation and ecological degradation”.
So Anglicans should be yelling at people (like me) to stop having babies because it’s a sin?
Well thank goodness I’m not an Anglican or my wife and I, along with our five children, would be in confession. A lot.
Exit question: If the Anglican priests are so worried about people marrying and having children why do they allow their priests to marry and have kids?
Just sayin’.
May 11, 2010 at 3:53 am
Hmmm. I guess the Anglicans got the copy of the Bible that's missing all that 'be fruitful and multiply' stuff.
May 11, 2010 at 4:39 am
Stories like this make me feel like getting pregnant, again. Thank God I'm Catholic!
May 11, 2010 at 7:15 am
Wait, they want Australians to have *fewer* children?! Perhaps they haven't seen that the total fertility rate of Australia is 1.79 – replacement rates are 2.1. I think they need to encourage Australians to have more children.
May 11, 2010 at 9:44 am
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" Once again – Thomas Malthus being the first chicken little and myth-maker – our separated brethren of the Anglican flavour demonstrate their conformity to secular ideology, i.e., the secular apocalypse. The only ones worse at predicting the end-of-days are the JWs. Well, ok – the United Nations is up there too in predicting a global meltdown which has yet to materialize.
May 11, 2010 at 10:49 am
Okay. Next I guess they're gonna say people above 65 are thieves and need to be sent to the death row. Can't believe they're calling themselves Christians!
May 11, 2010 at 11:36 am
Just one question to these followers of Malthus masquerading as Christians:
If Anglicans follow your suggestion and stop having children, who is going to sit in your pews and fill you collection plates every Sunday when the present generation is gone?
Oh, that's right! The same that is doing so now; nobody!
May 11, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Apparently the Anglicans think the "go forth and multiply" command was strictly a mathematical directive.
May 11, 2010 at 12:31 pm
If you were Anglican, would you be going to confession at all?
May 11, 2010 at 1:22 pm
These articles seem to be referencing a paper released in Feb. 2009:
"Key issues and actions for us to take: A discussion paper prepared by the Public Affairs Commission of the Anglican General Synod of Australia"
A download link can be found at this site:
http://www.population.org.au/
May 11, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Perhaps a better prescription would be to cut back on the amount of Fosters? It might be more effective than a paper from the Anglican Commission in acheiving the stated end proposed by the Public Affairs Commision.
Man I wanted to make a word play about private affairs and public affairs but I couldn't make it work today.
May 11, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Unfortunately Matt, there are plenty of Catholics who share the same sentiment. When's the last time a modern Catholic priest has preached a sermon about birth control–either of the artificial or natural type? I have heard some suggest though that one's concern for the environment can constitute "just" reason to limit (control) one's family. Don't blink–your Catholic bishop will be talking about it soon….
May 11, 2010 at 3:39 pm
More proof the Anglican church is a joke. Australians already have a fertility rate well below replacement rate.
May 11, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Anon is right, I very rarely hear Catholics talking about our duty to be generous with our fertility, yet there's much discussion about how we need to be "responsible" and limit family size. Used to be the Church unashamedly proclaimed that large families were a blessing. Not pc to say that these days, is it?
May 11, 2010 at 3:56 pm
At the rate Christians are reproducing, Muslims could be taking over as the majority in the next generation.
May 11, 2010 at 3:56 pm
"Exit question: If the Anglican priests are so worried about people marrying and having children why do they allow their priests to marry and have kids?"
maybe this is why the Anglicans promote homosexual priests and bishops.
May 11, 2010 at 4:15 pm
the Eighth Commanmdent? Surely the Seventh was meant 😉
May 11, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Forty years from now, the three remaining Anglicans are really gonna be kicking themselves over this…
May 11, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Someone's got a case of "just enough of me, a bit too much of thee."
May 12, 2010 at 12:17 am
When you say if you were Anglican you'd be in Confession a lot.. Probably not – they don't really go in for Confession either.
May 13, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Let's go on breeding – then rhe Catholics will inherit the Earth