Unreasonable Faith is a blog about religion, science, and skepticism. It was started by Daniel Florien in 2008 and he is now joined by a number of other contributors.
I’m a little distracted right now, as my wife and I are moving across town. I could rattle off a lot of reasons for the move – closer to work, bigger apartment, better kitchen – but one of the biggest reasons is actually the fact that we don’t have children. We don’t, but everyone around us does, which leads to problems.
At certain points, all the kids are turned outside to play. They play games that involve a lot of screaming, throwing rocks and slamming doors. One parent bought their kid a vuvuzela. There will be a reckoning.
Not being parents ourselves, we seem to lack the ability to block this out. We haven’t gotten numb to things like the scratches on the sides of our cars from careless kids on bicycles. We spent years trying to keep quiet so that we wouldn’t wake the baby upstairs. Now that baby is a healthy child who like to run, jump and drop things. And move furniture, as near as we can tell.
Anyway, it’s time to move. But it got me thinking about a question that our friend Ty asked on the forum: do we owe it to the world to have children? My wife and I are fairly stable and reasonably prosperous (though a lot of that is because we don’t have kids) We could probably raise a healthy child. Do we owe it to the world to try?
Your favorite atheist punk rock band, Bad Religion, has a new album coming out on Sept 28 called “The Dissent of Man.” There are a few pre-release tracks on their myspace page and it sounds really good.
Amazing these guys can keep producing after all this time — they’ve been together for 31 years and this will be their 15th album. Impressive.
You can pre-order the album on Amazon as an Audio CD or Vinyl.
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