01-06-2022, 09:58 PM
I couldn't agree more. I have two sons (now in their forties), but if I were young again, I would not consider having children in the current crisis. They could be entering an environmental nightmare. Plus the world is terribly overpopulated, with numbers increasing every single day. See here:
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population
Each person has the liberty to decide whether to enter a relationship, whether to have children, etc. It is a personal choice and nothing to do with religion. As for the Pope's decision to comment on the "selfishness" of having companion animals instead of children, it is (appallingly) in line with the often mooted (but not universally held) Catholic position that only humans pass to the afterlife - which religious people call "heaven" - and animals do not. See, for example:
https://www.catholic.com/qa/do-animals-h...man-beings
Such an arrogant "only humans are good enough to continue after death" attitude obviously carries through into other issues, such as the current pronouncement of the Pope about having animals instead of children being selfish. It might also explain why in Spain donkeys are thrown off church towers or have darts thrown at them on religious festivals.
Such attitudes are unfortunately still widespread and absolutely lamentable.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population
Each person has the liberty to decide whether to enter a relationship, whether to have children, etc. It is a personal choice and nothing to do with religion. As for the Pope's decision to comment on the "selfishness" of having companion animals instead of children, it is (appallingly) in line with the often mooted (but not universally held) Catholic position that only humans pass to the afterlife - which religious people call "heaven" - and animals do not. See, for example:
https://www.catholic.com/qa/do-animals-h...man-beings
Such an arrogant "only humans are good enough to continue after death" attitude obviously carries through into other issues, such as the current pronouncement of the Pope about having animals instead of children being selfish. It might also explain why in Spain donkeys are thrown off church towers or have darts thrown at them on religious festivals.
Such attitudes are unfortunately still widespread and absolutely lamentable.
