[goldstategop]

Mark Steyn grasp the meaning of the Judeo-Christian message better than anymore else: Man has a duty to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth with progeny. The post-modern West by contrast, holds there is nothing worth living for and dying for and is the first civilization in history that has elected to arrange its own extinction. Call it autocide. Set against this dismal picture, is the miracle of Christianity which posits that the birth of Jesus is to underscore how human life is the ultimate miracle. And if people miss that they don't truly understand why Christianity celebrates Christmas. Sex in other words, is more than just about the pursuit of world pleasures; its a contract between past and future. Christians understand the connection far better than secularists do and that is why they are thriving. We better hope they do win for waiting in the wings is Islam. The ultimate anti-Christian ideology and one far more potent than Communism because it believes in its own destiny, divinely inspired as the West believes in nothing and has nothing to offer in terms of the future. Demography is a big word and there's plenty at stake in the world today and in the world of tomorrow.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Van Jenerette]

On the other, without a newborn babe, man is ultimately powerless. For, without new life, there can be no civilization, no society, no nothing...

Can someone please, explain this simple RULE to the proponents of Gay Marriage?

[Gunny Gene]

It's about balance. Too many people is just as bad as too few. 6.5 billion is apparently too many.

It's interesting that the "number of man" (666) thing is actually written as six hundred three score and six in the King James, which if parsed out is 600 20 20 20 6, or 6,002,020,206 (6 billion plus ). We passed this number about 6 years ago. A little fun with numerology, which was a popular pastime centuries ago. Especially concerning riddles. Think somebody back then may have been a mathematician?

[sodpoodle]

PING

ESP or what???

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758009/posts

[PGalt]

Even demographics become irrelevant when minds are flipped by force or convenient opinions of the collective.

Consider it a force multiplier.

[sodpoodle]

The Creator might give mankind a second bite of that apple?

[martin_fierro]

Savior of Western Culture, or White Trash? YOU DECIDE!

[johnny7]

The post-modern West by contrast, holds there is nothing worth living for and dying for and is the first civilization in history that has elected to arrange its own extinction. Call it autocide.

Kind'a like cop-assisted suicide on a grand scale... only replace the cop with a bloodthirsty, fanatical fazool. There are many similarities to Rome's fall... and I'm sure, many more that we just have no knowledge of... but it's the closest scenario I can come up with.

In the past, 230 years, we've had strong, courageous men appear in desperate times to pull our chestnuts from the fire. Could it be with our stylish, new criteria of politically-correct selection... we have made it impossible for these men to ever again play their role in the American story?

[Carbonado]

What an appalling lack of "enlightened" Liberal thinking on the part of Mr Steyn! It is the duty of every truly enlightened person to adhere to ones own personal ethic of comfort, convenience and debauchery. So what if we face extinction because of our fantasist beliefs? At least we'll go extinct being what we are - Cowardly, self-indulgent sybarites with a fatuous faith in our own superiority. Merry Christmas all.

[Popman]

Among them is a study on "robot rights." In a nutshell, if robots advance to some form of consciousness, they'd be entitled to welfare. The state would be obliged to provide "robo-healthcare," as the report puts it, plus no doubt robo-pensions and all the rest.

That will happen only after they get voting rights.

I can see it now: Moveon.bot

Maybe your robot will be deemed a 3/5 person, like the 3/5 Compromise our founding fathers put into our Constitution

[Notwithstanding]

I pray for my 7 children.

Our only hope is that the muslim kids will all get fat and lazy living in the west, like most westerners do, and abandon their false religion as too burdensome.

[Notwithstanding]

It should have been:

"One of our BEST hopes..."

[Running On Empty]

Marking

[Tax-chick]

And the Russian army will be majority Muslim by 2015.

Nurp. Interesting scenarios vis-a-vis Russia's border with China suggestion themselves ...

The problem with Mark Steyn's columns on this subject, though, is that they're not funny.

[raybbr]

Interesting. It's okay to attack the changing demographics regarding Islam but not when the hispanic culture begins to take over. (I don't mean you)

[aculeus]

bttt

[ex-snook]

See Buchanan's book for a heads-up written some years ago. The Death of the West

[Chickensoup]

Children of Men is not playing here in the Northeast. Interesting since Rotten tomatoes gave it a 92% positive review.

I never sit through a theatre show, perhaps twice a year.

Three got to sees this season
Nativity
Pursuit of Happyness
and Children of Men.

So nice to see conservative films making it to screen.

[theBuckwheat]

I heard this morning that the autism rate is now 1 in 166
births. That is substantially up in ten years from the rate of 1 in 10,000 births! Now, 1/166 is roughly 0.75%. I don't know what fraction of autistic children will grow up to be able to form families, but the birth rate in the West doesn't take into account this fraction of births that will not be able to themselves reproduce in time. This discount in the birth rate must be taken into account for any demographic projections. It must make the demographic trends even more towards self-extinction than authors like Stein have written.

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[GolfHacker]

Does he mention anything about stopping Muslim immigration??