America’s Coming Demographic Disaster — A Conversation with Jonathan V. Last

Interesting discussion, although the irony is that Mohler, with 2-kids, is himself below replacement rate. I didn't catch any of that mentioned in the podcast. Good thing that "other" evangelicals take care of the pesky business of fulfilling the creation mandate...

Al Mohler's daily podcast is good as always, but it always makes me chuckle when, addressing news stories related to unwanted pregnancy and birth control, he makes comments about "pregnancy as something that must be avoided at all cost".  If Mohler had more of a Voddie Baucham view of Christian family size that sort of statement would have a lot more impact, but when a Christian decides to have only two children...?  Isn't that functionally "pregnancy as something that must be avoided at all cost"... after a convenient number of children?

Al Mohler and 'Can Christians Use Birth Control?'?

Mohler's article on Christians using birth control. Worth reading, but a couple things missing. Why no mention of sexual sterilization, such as vasectomy, which EVERY man in the church seems to get these days after two children. I mean, Mohler makes this point:

"Therefore, Christians may make careful and discriminating use of proper technologies, but must never buy into the contraceptive mentality. We can never see children as problems to be avoided, but always as gifts to be welcomed and received."

Erm, right... but 2-3 gifts are enough, then let's just "return" the rest of those gifts, I suppose. If children are gifts, then why do so many men take the initiative to mutilate their genitals surgically to avoid more than a very small number of gifts? It's disheartening to me when I read the works of a seminary professor or evangelical leader that I really respect, but then in the profile blurb in their book it mentions that they have just one or two children.... or no mention of children at all. Why isn't this more foundational and important to them?

If an evangelical writer is going to address birth control, he needs to address not only the disregard that Christians seem to have for children today, but also the blase attitude they have to going to a creepy doctor to have their bodies willingly mutilated without fear of

Sales of adult diapers in Japan exceeded those for babies for the first time last year

Al Mohler mentioned this in his podcast today, and its basically weird enough to merit writing about here. Basically, a company in Japan says that sales of adult diapers in Japan exceeded those for babies for the first time last year. Bizarre... it's like Japan is turning into a giant island of old folks. And old folks cranked full of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear radiation. I see the potential here for a really goofy Gamera film.