Quote from: RE on Apr 29, 2024, 11:45 AMRight on cue.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2024/04/29/beware-a-shrinking-population/
Opinion: Beware of a falling population
RE
It figures the Mormon news source would think so. From the article:
QuoteAs I've written before, capitalism relies on steady growth to maximize outputs and increase markets through competition. If the nation begins contracting, paying off the national debt becomes much harder. Social Security would struggle to continue, as a lack of young workers makes it hard to fund benefits for a large population of retirees. Funding a strong military, and keeping it stocked with plenty of young soldiers, becomes a challenge that threatens U.S. influence abroad.
There are a lot of them (more all the time) and it does not serve me to insult them. There have to be a few good ones among this bat shit crazy cult that went mainstream almost two hundred years ago. In consideration of them I'll be kind.
Prophecy is big to them. Mormons embrace all sorts of bat shit crazy nonsense. Mormons are all about capitalism and patriarchy and their woo-woo understanding of reality makes it impossible for them to understand exploitation. Mormon scripture simultaneously denounces slavery and abolitionism both. Teaching that it is not right for men to be in bondage to each other. But that one should not interfere with the enslavement of others. Hee-Haw patriarchy, and any exploitive system can't exist without that loophole.
Mormons don't follow the teachings of Christ. As I understand them to be, and I do understand them. Their founders rewrote the teachings of Christ to suit their private agendas.
If you hear a voice in your head Mormons believe god is talking to you. God talked to all their founders. Some will even be Ok with you saying you saw an angel walk through a wall. They are all about the apocalypse, as many social pyramids are. It absolves everyone of responsibility when everyone believes in the end of the world. It lets you do what you want in the present moment. It was part of gods' plan for your ass to be kicked. Deal with it from their point of view.