If it had been written as a cautionary tale about Islam, it might have some value, but as a slam against Christianity and the Christian view of women, it is just moronic.
And if I remember correctly, the catalyst was that some disease caused most American women to be sterile, and this was the cultural response.
No, it was more stupid than that. The elite males were sterile because of something that the military released. Younger, less elite males were still fertile but did not have access to fertile women.
That’s what I recall (from the movie), that most (not all) women were sterile.
If _men_ were mostly sterile, the whole story would have played out very different - women paying to copulate with fertile men, rattling social structures but still on the whole getting all desiring women pregnant - akin to a culture getting most of-age men killed off in a war and the survivors coming home to a plethora of willing women. With proper planning & timing, one man could impregnate >365 women per year.
But with _women_ being mostly sterile, and the impregnation/gestation cycle being upwards of a year minimum, and a plethora of capable men facing a minuscule number of fertile (and not currently pregnant) women, demand for wombs would be extremely high & costly, complicated by the seething jealousy of the infertile. Much more interesting story.
Hence I’m wondering whether the current series is based on biological infertility, or sociopolitical oppression. If the latter, I’m not interested (shoot the oppressors & propagate the species accordingly).