{"id":796,"date":"2006-05-21T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=796"},"modified":"2006-10-09T20:40:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T12:40:54","slug":"794-of-pope-and-birth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"[794] Of Pope and birth rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope yesterday cites secularism as the reason why Canada is having a low birth rate. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060521\/ap_on_re_eu\/vatican_message;_ylt=AkSMpsTf6YON6XzYeN7SHdt0bBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--\">More<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VATICAN CITY &#8211; Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that low birth rates in Canada are the result of the &#8220;pervasive effects of secularism&#8221; and asked the country&#8217;s bishops to counter the trend by preaching the truth of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict, who has spoken out several times in favor of large families, blamed Canada&#8217;s low birth rate on social ills and moral ambiguities that result from secular ideology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh. And I blame the Pope (well, Vatican to be precise) for causing overpopulation and hence, shortage of food in Africa.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; Haha! Just discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/\">Scott Adams blogs<\/a>! Adams is the author of Dilbert but who doesn&#8217;t know that?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; sucks. MSU gets on front page today at Wikipedia. I won&#8217;t bother linking to our intrastate rival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope yesterday cites secularism as the reason why Canada is having a low birth rate. More: VATICAN CITY &#8211; Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that low birth rates in Canada are the result of the &#8220;pervasive effects of secularism&#8221; and asked the country&#8217;s bishops to counter the trend by preaching the truth of Christ. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-society","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}