“For indeed the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.’ At that time they will say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us!'” (Lk 23:29-30)

My generation, colloquially known as the ‘Boomers,’ is arguably the first generation in history to largely embrace the notion of reproductive sterility as a positive good. This fulfills a prophesy made by our Lord, Jesus Christ, to the women of Jerusalem even as He was bearing the cross to his place of execution on Golgotha. Only a nihilistic culture which has no vision or hope for the future would celebrate barrenness as a desirable outcome. Only a generation steeped in this negative neo-Malthusian mindset would view its own offspring as a threat to its greater enjoyment and happiness. Only diseased minds and frozen hearts could ever conceive of human life not as a promising asset but as a dangerous liability which threatens their world, yet such is the mystifying conclusion which a great many of the Boomer generation came to accept as gospel.

Children, who had historically been considered hallmarks of family success and assets to society were, after 1965, increasingly dismissed as disposable liabilities. We lost any sense of shame about killing our unborn children, and in fact ostracized and shamed those few who were still willing to defend pre-natal life. Such attitudes inevitably create a jaded and cynical disposition regarding all human life, thus the terrible slaughters we now see in Ukraine and Gaza are either defended or casually dismissed by the very same crowd which was so greatly incensed by killings during the Vietnam War. I watched incredulously throughout the 1960s and 70s as my generation, virtually all raised with a Christian outlook, glibly swallowed the ‘Chicken Little’ overpopulation hoax of alarmists like Paul Ehrlich (author of “The Population Bomb” 1968) and sugar coated with a massive dose of Margaret Sanger’s contraception propaganda. And in fact, within a decade, that pervasive sexual revolution had blinded a whole generation to the true meaning of love and responsibility, and dispelled any concern for the good of future generations.

Ideas such as these have real world consequences. For if one generation is allowed to simply kill off its progeny for convenience sake, then what logically follows is a right to institute generational malpractice and pilferage. For if it’s okay to kill off your descendants for any reason, then what is to prevent one from robbing them blind? Whether consciously intended or not, this attitude insures that succeeding generations will be poorer, smaller, and saddled with the debts and problems bequeathed to them by their self-indulgent predecessors, the Boomers. Today’s demographics clearly bear out this phenomenon.