Why do atheists have less or no babies?
Because they don't believe in God, so why keep the human race around?
Perhaps they might tell us why they still want to hang around, why not just enact a self-departure at their earliest convenience.
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It's down to a number of factors, primarily the fact that atheists have no religious beliefs telling them that things like contraception and abortion are sinful.
I really don't see why a belief in God would lead anyone to want to "keep the human race around" any more than a lack of belief would, in any case. Perhaps you're just dumb.
Atheists have less babies than theists because we realize that time and money contraints are harming to raising too many children. If you don't have time to spend with each child, or enough money to give them the necessities of life, then why be like the Duggers? Atheists are trying to keep this world around as long as possible, it's the christians who are the ones who don't want to be here, and are actively trying to destroy the place in the process.
Oh, no, you've found us out. We're all waiting for the Atheist Rapture, in which the Divinely Nonexistent One will take us to the big rock candy mountain. It can't be that we don't fall for nonsense like Quiverfull.
Because, instead of blindly believing that some god will take care of things no matter how badly we humans overpopulate the world, we try to keep our family sizes and overall population at levels that are sensible.
My husband and I have 3 kids, 2 boys and a girl. We wanted 3 kids and we had them. In between when we didn't want to get pregnant we used birth control. God, religion, had nothing to do with it.
Now that they are all teenagers, we are rethinking our decision :)
Why do atheists have less or no babies?
Because they're smarter and richer and they want to be sure there are enough fundie kids around to wash their cars and deliver pizza to them while they're watching the Superbowl on their 52" plasmas.
I don't want kids because I'm a crazy environmentalist and I think that at least 50% of the world's population should forgo having children. We are way too many and we are doubling our population every couple of generations; it is going to lead to a catastrophe of unimaginable size.
If some of us take a stand and don't propagate the population will slowly shrink to more manageable proportions, perhaps before it instead forcibly shrinks by the means of mass starvation.
That's why I don't have kids. Doesn't have anything to do with me being an atheist, except for one thing:
Why do atheists have less or no babies?
Um. 'cauase your bible says be fruitful and overpopulate the earth. Christians do it out of obligation more than anything else, despite what they may tell you. I have 7 siblings, my parents are missionaries, and they'll tell you it was at least in part to being told to by their bible. I would say the reason atheists in general have fewer children is that they don't feel morally obligated to overpopulate the world until there's not enough food and water to go around. But I digress.
My reason for not intending to have 8 children like my parents is that it's a nonsensical amount of hassle. I plan on fathering none, and adopting three. Call me evil for disobeying the bible, if you interpret that particular passage as a command and requirement, but adopting seems just a little bit holier in my opinion, even if for no other reason than the verses about taking in orphans and widows. Meh.
Because they don't believe in God, so why keep the human race around?
Perhaps they might tell us why they still want to hang around, why not just enact a self-departure at their earliest convenience.
Why keep the race around? There's more to life than worshiping an invisible man in the sky. Why is his nonexistence a reason to cause ourselves extinction?
Quiverfull is one of the more retarded concepts of Christian fundamentalists. Intelligent people have fewer kids so they can devote more time and resources to them.
Because atheists are under no obligation to breed. Neither are Christians - a family can "be fruitful and multiply" per Genesis 9:1 and still be socially responsible, not having more children than they can afford or look after properly. The rest of that verse says "replenish the earth", not "convert its entire biomass into Homo sapiens", and Christianity is not a fertility cult.
"Put those pants back on, baby - there's no god!"
Yeah, you hear that a lot.
@CynicChick: Pull!
Do we?
Oh yeah, we do.
Well, it's because we understand that the Earth can only have so many people, and we're doing our sacred duty by abstaining, to ensure that there are resources for generations and generations of your stupid motherfucking baby machines dickshits future humans to enjoy.
Because they don't believe in God, so why keep the human race around?
You don't believe in Santa Claus so why do you still buy Christmas presents?
the only worry I have with sensible people having sensible-sized families (in the west) is that the fundies will outbreed us, subsisting on benefits drawn from our taxes, and eventually out-vote us (paranoid or what)!!!
No, no, no, no, NO!
Everything Ryrge said is wrong!
How can so much be wrong in so few words!?
I limited my family size because I grew up in a large family. There was never enough time, money or space for all of us kids.
I like my two kids but that doesn't mean I want more of them.
Why do atheists have less or no babies?
This atheist does not have babies because this atheist is a conscious human being that would rather adopt an existing person than inflict her flawed genes into another person, when there are so many pre-existing persons in need of good homes.
Why do atheists have less or no babies?
Because they don't believe in God, so why keep the human race around?
Company? Or perhaps a recognition of the inherent value of intelligence over inanimate matter and a desire to prevent its extinction?
Perhaps they might tell us why they still want to hang around, why not just enact a self-departure at their earliest convenience.
I'm not even going to bother with this one.
My husband and I decided to have only one child for a few reasons, none of them because we didn’t want to see the human race survive. Quite the opposite in fact, we thought it was better for the human race and the earth’s resources if we two people made only one offspring. Our own resources would go further if we only had one, thus improving our quality of life. It’s because we don’t believe in a god that will rescue us that we live a simpler less resource demanding lifestyle. Having twenty kids is probably a good idea if human existence is in peril, but low population is not a current problem so there’s no need for my womb to work overtime. And there are plenty of already existing children who need a home, another reason I don’t need to make more.
Maybe being an atheist means I have rational reasons for having or not having children.
Also I have no desire to “enact a self-departure” thank you very much, I like being alive and have no reason to hurry towards the end.
There are over 6 billion people in the world.
The world has finite resources (even the renewable ones can be over-used, just look at the fishing situation).
The world, therefore, has a limit to what it can support.
And we're getting close to that limit.
Atheists don't believe there is a magical mystical super-duper sky being who's going to miraculously make everything better.
That is why I have decided to have not more than one child of my own. Although I'm willing to adopt. I cannot in good conscience add to a population that is growing exponentially and rapidly depleting resources. I can't do that to the rest of humanity, and I can't do that to my own children.
Other people may agree with me, or disagree, for a wide variety of reasons.
But that is this atheists answer.
No god = we're on are own, so humanity might as well smarten up.
you see, my grandfather had around 80 brothers and sisters, YES I SAID 80! he himself had 18, my father in turn had 5, I want 2 and adopt a whole bunch depending on how rich i get, our family has never been to religious and my generation is quite atheistic.
I'm pretty sure most atheists don't consider life to be pointless. Most I know think in some form or the other that humans, either personally or collectively, create purpose themselves. And some atheists do have families.
Now me personally, I'm sitting on the fence about wether or not the human race needs to be kept around. But that doesn't have to do with any belief in, or lack of belief in some form of deity. But rather with my opinion that humans as a species are inherently destructive. An opinion which would not change regardless of any other believes, as this is what I see humans do. Overtaxing our pretty planet, constantly waging wars with eachother, sneakily trying to oppress and exploit eachother, if they don't do it openly. So yeah... I'm not so sure humans should necessarily be kept around.
But lets say I believed in the fundie god as well, then I'd just have an additional reason not to want to keep humans around. Because according to fundie theology most people go to hell. So why allow more to be born only if they'll suffer eternally later? Better then not to have humans around then too.
Setting aside your grammatical error, religion doesn't come into it. Nor does propagating that religion: if I ever have anklebiters, I'll try to educate them broadly enough so that they can choose their own spiritual/political/social beliefs rather than impose mine on them.
"Because they don't believe in God, so why keep the human race around?"
Why NOT keep the human race around?
atheists have fewer babies because we believe in birth control, and not cluttering the world with more people then it can support.
As for "why keep the human race around". Why not?
"Why do atheists have less or no babies? "
Because we're sufficiently educated to know that Earth's population is 7 billion+ ; finite resources, and all that jazz.
Derp.
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