Overpopulation, Religious Dogma, Politics, Economy and the Big Squeeze

Global warming, climate change and sea level rising are just some of the problems facing humanity. So are we simply burning our bridges for luxurious beliefs in philosophy, such as that perpetrated by religions, governments and short sightedness? What do you think?

There is no excuse for overpopulation except ignorance and government and religious domination of societies, which gives them more say than common sense. In fact, religion and some government policies kill common sense and we are paying the price. So what should we change to improve the situation?

Overcrowding in cities and the loss of agricultural land for housing is a burden we may never escape as the population soars. From 1.5 billion some 60 years ago to now over 7 billion and expected to be 10 billion within a few years is an astronomical figure that takes some getting the head around.

This is a controversial subject but all we have to do is look around at our cities, our disappearing forests, the over fished oceans, the loss of species, the number dying of starvation, and the terrorism and wars that never end. While many feel safe and secure in their environment and simply don't believe that what is happening to our world is terminal they are not alone. Politicians, church people, businesses and so on are lining up to poo poo suggestions that we are killing the world.

You can have your say here in several places. This is a debate on this important topic to maybe sort out how people think and where they are coming from in their beliefs and practices. If it serves to wake a few sleepers from their dreams and complacency than all the better.

Overpopulation brings suffering to humans and animals. Masses of starving children is happening now. Babies are born that no one wants and street life and early death is what most face. Child killing or infanticide is occurring in the best of societies.

Many are murdered in their first few years of life, as noted on this lens. Common sense does not prevail where poverty, religion and overpopulation is rife. But we are all affected by this. If not now then in the very near future.

Many women in third world Mexico, Philippines, and Africa, (check out this lens) are ignorant of the availability of contraceptives while their governments won't allow education and insist on the status quo at any cost? But, even if they were available how many could afford them? But over breeding is a poor solution to poverty, especially where people are completely untrained in Western values and their forest, once depended on for food and medicines (including contraceptives) are no longer there.

Child abuse comes in many forms and allowing children to be born to suffer this fate is criminal. If they were never born they would not be abused in this way. If every married couple has just 5 children the population would treble every 20 years or so. Imagine that, in 2030 we could have a population of over 21 billion people. But that does not deter population growth. Some families are ten, twelve even fifteen and more child sized.

A few years ago a Catholic bishop stated on radio that if pregnant you must have the child because abortion and contraceptives are wrong. Later while speaking with him due to my disgust at his words he was informed on how I was dealing with a child abandoned by his single mum who could not care for him. At 6 years of age this child was suicidal, completely out of control, bowel incontinent and unable to focus his mind. It took him hours to swallow his food and often, if my back was turned, he would simply hide it.

So I asked this priest. "What will your organization do for children such as this who are born without love or need? I asked. "They are born and abandoned into society and will have shocking lives because of the rejection. What do you do for them because they have not much of a life to look forward to and are a burden on society?" His answer floored me. "There is nothing the church can do but we stand strong against abortion and birth control." In other words he passed the buck. But there are a lot of Catholic boys out there who think nothing of having sex with women. But they don't get pregnant so it is the girl's fault.

This type of thing is repeated thousands of time a week in western countries and its worse in others, as mentioned above. Children live on the streets with no one to help them in cities everywhere. In Mexico and other South American countries, there are so many that they are shot by police, as reported on television. Mostly they steal food and the drug problem is enormous. Hundreds live off rubbish tips and scrounge for scraps of food and things to sell.

Secret footage from China showed abandoned children in orphanages. From newborn to a couple of years old the scenes often portrayed in the media are disgusting. Children tied up in cots, or seated permanently on potty chairs, high chairs and so on are in agony. Many just rock back and forth continually from pain and boredom. Their eyes express the pain of abuse, lack of love, lack of care and the lack of even a cuddle.

Another secret film from Tibet showed genocide practiced against the population. The reason China needs more room for its rapidly expanding population. People are murdered in the street if they demonstrate and are brutally bashed with wooden or metal batons. Attempted escapees are shot. One man in a group fleeing across the border into India told of being mowed down as they fled. It is all on film. He laid down pretending he was dead. The reason they are not allowed out - China does not want the world to see this side of their government.

Incredibly he went back to Tibet where he met others who told their story. One woman interviewed told of how she was sterilised by tube cutting and tying without any anesthetic. She claims it is done frequently to women of child bearing age. This is an example of genocide by default. The population is being prohibited from reproducing more Tibetans. Only Chinese are now welcome here.

These things are contradictions in government practices Children being born, on the one hand, who are unwanted and abandoned versus unwanted fetuses being aborted or a massive education campaign for family planning. Surely contraceptive would be a lot easier, safer and prevent the births in the first place.

A guy on television boasted that he had 11 children, a woman bragged about her 15 children and this happens on a regular basis. OK, but why? For every child born there will be at least 3 to replace it.

The Catholic Church, and many of its offshoots i.e. other Christian faiths, believe that the New Testament is ordering the production of large families. At least that is their interpretation of a document whose origin is suspicious to begin with and my research shows that it promotes untruths fostered by deceit Check out this lens

Over a quarter of a century of research the fraud behind religion and why preachers stick to their stories of make-believe and imagined rewards and punishments for dissenters came to light. Power mongering kings and their cohorts invented prophets for power and control, They needed many men to die on battlefields to prove their godliness against other kinds. So they encouraged breeding on an unprecedented level from which we have never emerged. Families also lost children at a great rate due to disease and other things. Having large families was once a necessity to see just one or two reach adulthood - but that is not the case today.

The figures are staggering. Since 1950 the population of the world has trebled. It has gone from some 2 billion to over 7 billion in 50 years. Every person born requires food, water, housing and so on. Every person born excretes waste and pollutes the earth with contaminants.

Archaeology proves that civilizations with large populations collapsed under the weight of their own sewerage, loss of trees and desertification. But man learns nothing from the past and is hell bent on repeating it. "History repeats itself" is an adage we were all reared with. The world is dying now from pollution, changed climatic conditions and desertification through loss of trees.

Man the inventor learned how to overcome disease, how to cheat nature and take it all. Few kids now get measles, mumps, whopping cough, polio and so on. Plagues are down to a minimum and people live longer, many 100 years or more. In 1950 the life line averaged around 60 to 70 years. These 'natural controls' were removed so men could be gods over life and death.

Religions and governments are dependent on income and good economics. The more people there are, for instance, the more money pours into the coffers. The more people there are to work and pay taxes the more money Governments have to play around with and to pay themselves huge wages.

These are controversial topics and the alternative might be to simply help reduce the global population and to overturn some religious doctrine that is adding to overpopulation and, therefore, global warming. For every person there is a cost. Not only food, deforestation, pollution and babies but a world that is fast becoming too hot to survive in, We will all pay the price.

How many times do we have to listen to lies and misguided thinking before we wake up? Over and over the Pope declares that condoms are against Church doctrine. He forbids family planning, contraceptives and common sense approaches to population growth. In other words he does not care about how the population of the world is killing it.

In Australia our leading politicians follow Catholic policies and encourage large families with baby bonuses and other things. We are almost bursting at the seams now and our quality of life is very much on the decline. House prices have doubled even trebled over the last few years, food prices have soared, water has become scarce and we have too few services and professional people to go around, So what is the thinking behind increasing the population?

How many times have we heard the religious hierarchy and pope say that condoms do not stop AIDS. They either lie or are extremely ignorant because they should know, as any educated person does, that this is wrong. They are increasing the impact of this disease which kills great numbers of populations. But it also leaves little children orphaned and often without carers. We see scenes in parts of Africa with kids of 8 or 9 rearing their younger siblings by begging for handouts or slaving at jobs that many adults would have difficulty performing. Is this good Church practice? Or is it ignorance and lies? Must this be allowed to go on?

We think we are civilized but what exactly does that mean? That we look after our own and turn a blind eye to everyone else's problems? If that's the case then I am uncivilized.

We also see scenes in Africa, where the Catholic Church has great influence, of girls sold as sex slaves to men for marriage before they have even reached puberty. The result is extreme pain from fistulas and other things caused by immature bodies bearing children .

Religion is a main stay of good government, except where it is out of hand and without direction. That is the case in some Muslim countries where religion is the government and the Emir in the Mosque is the law. It is like communism where politicians have such control over the population that no one can speak against it.

it is not so long ago that Christianity took the same stand. Who can forget the Inquisition, the witch hunts throughout Europe and the genocide of civilizations in the Americas, Australia, Africa and just about everywhere else where countries were stolen and empires flourished. We look back over that history now and many think of the conquerors as great heroes but they were really mass murderers and thieves.

My research shows that most religions have a common ancestor and we are looking back in history, through Islamic eyes, at how religious leaders dominated and controlled their flocks in the past. It is tribal based leadership where members of the tribe cannot step out of line or they will be killed or face some other type of punishment. And Islam does kill its own on an ever increasing basis.

One of the most pathetic things heard this week is from a group of Muslim women, heavily veiled, who have suddenly been allowed to learn to read. They expressed their joy at finding their way around their own cities because of reading street signs. They also stated how wonderful it is to be able to read a recipe, or to know what the headlines on a newspaper state. Through them it hit me how without female education men can dominate them to such a degree that they remain house bound and nothing more than child bearers.

Some Islamic groups are more strict than others. We know that in some regions women are free to do almost everything they want but in other places they are not. The Taliban, for instance, insists on the wearing of berkers by women because they are nothing and should never be seen in public. We have seen television footage of women being publicly stoned to death for crimes such as adultery or whatever.

The symbolism behind the berker is frightening, especially to women of the west. It is hard to watch women who wear them among your own community when all other women are free.

Women who don't know that the government in their country is prepared to help them are vulnerable and can be victims. If they don't know that the country in which they live forbids this kind of abuse they are even more vulnerable. The Australian governments has put out brochures and television ads advising women of their rights in abuse case but if the letter box is locked and the television is a no go zone how do the women see them?

When women in berkers are spotted walking around the streets of some Sydney suburbs people want to yell at them. But more important we should be yelling at the government for allowing them to be so dominated that they do not know that under Australian law they can take them off. In temperatures that reach over 40* Celsius on many a summer's day these women must swelter and almost die in those claustrophobic things.

This is not religion but control that forces them to wear these things. Under Shiite rule they can be executed for appearing in public without a cover to hide them from view.

There are two sides, or perhaps more, to this debate. We know there are very rich Islamic countries where women are educated and have lots of money and other things. But do they have control over how many children they have? We know there are sides to religions which do good and that many of the hierarchy in them are appalled at the actions of individuals. We also know that the western countries, particularly in Europe, have a declining birthrate. In fact, the following arguments are more specific to those regions where the poor are ignorant and exploited. It is these countries that need the most help and food hand outs alone does not do it.

There are also many in the world who, given an inch, will take a mile. They exploit on an unprecedented basis. They take and give little. They are exhausting the natural world. Their only concern appears to be money and yet many of these belong to religions which exonerate their behavior. Words like "go forth and multiple" and that man is made in God's image" and so on spurs them on, as well as the thought that God gave man dominion over the earth.

Until some 30 to 40 years ago infanticide was a form of abortion. In that case women had no choice but to have children. As the child was born it was prevented from breathing either by drowning, burying or holding a hand across the nose and mouth. This is shocking but unwanted children were not given the chance to live as they are now. That does NOT MEAN that I am in favor of infanticide but it is still going on in many places.

For that reason I have described it as a natural practice among those people who use it. The Kung bushmen of Africa were one such group. The woman went out on her own into the scrub to give birth. This nomadic tribe had practiced infanticide since its beginning and there was nothing against it. Women could only feed one baby at a time so a second child requiring to be breast fed was not allowed. She could also not carry two babies. Bear in mind these people had no prams, no support, no baby food or formula other than what the Kalahari Desert provided.

The same type of things happened in India, China and among many other peoples. But now with the influence of the religions in their societies they have learned not to do this. But they are not allowed contraceptives or abortions so the children are born that might otherwise have not been allowed to live, That does not mean that I, or any one else, condones it but we should be giving these women education into family planning and helping them to have smaller families.

In Mexico where children live on rubbish tips scavenging food and bits of anything to sell the sight is pathetic. This is also the case in regions of the Philippines, India, and elsewhere. So why don't the western "civilized" countries do something to prevent these children being born? That's what I am asking? Where is our obligation to them?

Why doesn't the Catholic Church, the main influence in these regions, step up to the plate and take care of these little ones. Once they are born not even the church wants them, or so it would seem

We are all feeling the effects of global warming and climate change. But how many are aware of the real cause and the danger we face as a result of overpopulation.

Not only Africa, India, China and other Asian countries are causing major problems along these lines but South American countries, like Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and so on, are also high up there. These are countries dominated by Catholicism where family planning, abortion and contraceptives are rarely even mentioned, if at all. Women in these poorer countries follow on from their parents and do whatever the clergy demand. That means they have children, one after the other, after the other, and families of 10, 15 and even more than that, are common.

A woman shown on TV a while back from Fiji, another Catholic dominated community, told of how she lost her job and now received some $7 per week with which she must keep her family. Because her children attend Catholic schools she has to pay some of that for school fees. She said she must give at least a tenth of it to the church and because she has borrowed money from a bank she is repaying that loan. When it was tallied up she has less than $2, after rent, to feed her family of 5 for the week. She often skips her daily ration of rice so that the children can have more. I listened to this with tears in my eyes.

That story is happening all over the Islands, throughout India, Mexico, Brazil. Argentina, South Africa and elsewhere and yet the Organization they pay tithes too has an income second only to the entire USA. They pretend to do good but the trick is to get millions of people working for them for free and they and others donating a large percent of their income. The more children they have the more secure is the Vatican's future.

That means encouraging their flocks to produce more Catholic children. Its all about economics, not truth

When you look at the garb of a Catholic nun the outfit they wear is no different to that of the Muslim woman. Their priests have the same outfits as those of Islamic emirs and the hats are identical to ancient religions as well. So why do we tolerate it? Are we all ignorant and afraid to speak up?

Religion has it root in the past where men made up rules based on their imagination and sun worship. Isn't it time we changed that?

The world is a finite resource. Already millions of acres of once fertile land is now desert. As man seeks to grow more the forests are removed and water is drying up. As cities grow the congestion gets beyond tolerance. Yet we are in a catch 22 situation.

Governments think they need increased population to pay for the increase in population. More roads, more services, more homes, more transport, more sewerage, and so on, But they are doing it with less because we have more unemployment, more need for food, houses, roads, transport, and so on. This means a never ending circle of nonsense.

How do we change it. Frankly it looks like we are beyond the point of no return. For every man, woman and child alive today there will be two or three to replace them in the near future, and they probably will still be alive as well. So more deforestation, more land turned to desert, less fresh water, more pollution and ultimately the collapse of civilization. That means anarchy, killing on a large scale, fighting for the remaining food, water, and so on.

Man learns nothing from history because most of the human race is kept in the dark. Men are not nurturers but dare devils who seek to fight, to take, to succeed at any cost. Do they care about the future when they are so reckless with their own lives. Just because it is not happening in your area now does not mean it is not coming to you.

When will you WAKE UP!

In the past when and where water became an issue massive wars were fought for control of rivers and even dams. We are facing wars on an unprecedented scale because of the limits of resource and the fact that water is drying up. Does the Church care? Not a hoot! Do the Muslims care? No! They will consider themselves all martyrs for Islam. No one will emerge a winner from what is coming and no one can reverse it. We are locked into out folly and we will all pay a heavy price.

Mothers will scramble for the last drop of water to give to their children. Men will fight like crazy for their rights, Children will die because they have nothing to sustain them.

There will be few, if any, animals alive, because more of them would have been eaten, There will be no trees, or very few, because they were all removed to make way for houses and agriculture. There will be no transport because the gasoline is all gone. There will be no markets because the growers have all gone. There will be no fish because the oceans are being fished out and everything is dredged. There will be no birds because they depend on forests and trees for survival.

What a sorry, miserable, criminal act we are performing against nature. Against God who created everything and put us here to enjoy it. But it is all coming to a head because it was promised. Man will suffer intolerable defeat because he believes religion before nature. He has taken the lies and ignorance of a few old men and has believed the fairy tales told to him of this great heaven and hell and eternal existence that will be his after death. He has believed that some Saviour God, born of a virgin will come and save him

The Pope lies about that too, or is extremely ignorant. There is no such thing as a virgin birth because genes are required of both parents to create an offspring. But in the old times, long before it was realized that men fertilized the ovum to produce a baby, men thought that women were impregnated by the sun. That is the Spirit of light. Conceived by spiritual power.

In ancient times men died on the cross at dawn in their hundreds to be the next Father god. There is evidence of this in rock art, archeology, and in the very words we speak. My research into the origin of language and religions uncovered the fraud, the lies, and the conspiracies that have led us to this point. Its all been for power and now we will die because of all those who made money and achieved power at the expense of the whole world.

When it was realized that men are required for the act of human procreation patriarchy was born and women were relegated to the lowest point. Men wanted the glory for themselves. They had invented the Heavenly Mother God and now they died to rise up and fertilize her. In glory and great speculation they became the Father god, an honor then reserved for the king. Now the Pope proclaims himself king of the church and because he can't physically fertilize Mary, the old name for the sun, the virgin birth is maintained.

WAKE UP FOLKS!

Its religious lies and ignorance that is killing us and we are past the point of no return. So what do you say now?

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