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AR 29:4 - The big-time impact of singleness on organized religion
In this issue:
BIAS - "the ones to expose the truth about Hamas were Hamas members themselves"
VITAL STATISTICS - "Married folks are way more likely to be religious"
+ "The desire among globalists to prevent births is aggressive"
Apologia Report 29:4 (1,645)
January 25, 2024
BIAS
"Hamas Murders Euphemism" by Eitan Fischberger (City Journal, Oct 8 '23) -- "After the horrific [Sabbath, October 7] attack ... media outlets went to great lengths to downplay its severity. Take New York Times Middle East correspondent Raja Abdulrahim, who, on the day of the dreadful attack, opened her piece by writing that 'For some Gazans, Saturday morning's surprise Palestinian attack into southern Israel seemed a justified response to a 16-year Israeli blockade.' ...
"CNN's Fareed Zakaria, for his part, hosted a guest who claimed that Hamas 'mainly attacks military establishments' and that most of the hostages taken by Hamas are 'military people.' In a separate CNN segment, another commentator said that Hamas 'wants to sit down and talk peace with the Israelis.' ...
"In many instances, such abysmal coverage results from Hamas apologists who, eager to present their cause in a manner palatable to Western audiences, soften their rhetoric with progressive terminology such as 'liberation,' 'resistance,' and 'human rights' when interviewed by the media. ...
"A leak from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation exposed on Saturday revealed that its reporters are explicitly instructed not to refer to Hamas members as terrorists. ...
"As news of Hamas's massacre began rolling in, various terror-linked accounts on Telegram and X (formerly Twitter) started uploading videos of their savagery, not realizing that such footage wouldn't be embraced in Los Angeles as enthusiastically as in Ramallah. ...
"One side wants to annihilate the Jewish people, and the other side-the Jews-resists that wish. Hamas's 1988 charter states that 'Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.' ...
"[C]ountless readily available videos online reveal Hamas leaders explicitly calling for the murder of Jews via explosives, knives, and even decapitation. ... This selective reporting is likely why many were taken aback by the recent display of Hamas's brutality, though the group has been transparent about its intentions since its founding. It's not that people favored Hamas's actions-they were simply never provided the truth about this genocidal organization.
"Fortunately, the role of journalism is no longer limited to traditional media. Anyone with a cell phone can shed light on under-scrutinized truths. It just so happens that the ones to expose the truth about Hamas were Hamas members themselves." <www.tinyurl.com/mppjm8hy>
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VITAL STATISTICS
"The Rise of Singleness and How Organized Religion Is Being Impacted, Big Time" by Ryan Burge (Get Religion, Oct 11 '23) -- "Dan Cox, from the American Enterprise Institute, did some polling and found <www.tinyurl.com/3s54mwsy> that younger women (18-29) were significantly more likely to report that they were single in 2022 compared to 2020 (45% vs 38%). And a book published in 2015 called, 'Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game,' found that educated women just didn't have that many options when it came to finding a potential mate because the share of men going to college has declined sharply in recent decades." <www.tinyurl.com/yc4cp8e2>
Burge asks if "being single [is] driving women further away from religion than unmarried men. ...
"In 2008, about 20% of all women in the sample reported that they had never been married - it was 30% of all men. That's not a small gap, and it's persisted for the entire length of the Cooperative Election Study. Both trend lines have slowly edged up every year.
"However, I would be remiss to point out that the line for women has stayed relatively stable beginning in about 2018, when 26-27% say that they were never married.
"For men, the number continues to climb. In the most recent data collected from 2022, about 37% of men say that they have never been married. The overall conclusion is pretty unmistakable: singleness is on the rise for both men and women, but women are still 8-10 points less likely to never be married. ...
"The huge shift in marriage is apparent in just the last 14 years." The result is that "a 40-year-old man is nearly twice as likely to never be married in 2022 compared to 2008." (Think about it.)
"I restricted the sample to just folks who reported never being married and then calculated the share who reported never/seldom attending religious services....
"In 2008, about 47% of unmarried women were seldom/never attenders compared to 55% of men. ... In 2022, 63% of unmarried men were attending less than once a year compared to 60% of women. ...
"In 2012, about 25% of unmarried women were attending religious services every week compared to only 20% of men. But in the most recent data.... It's pretty fair to say that single women are catching up to single men on metrics related to religious attendance.
"But have there been religious composition changes among never married men and women over the last several years? ...
"In 2010, 57% of never married men were Protestant/Catholic. It was 59% of never married women. The share who were nones was basically the same, too.
"As time has passed the Protestant/Catholic share has predictably dropped for men and women. In 2022, just 40% of unmarried men were Protestant or Catholic - it was 45% of women. The share of unmarried men who were nones (atheists/agnostic/nothing in particular) has now risen to 52% - for women it's just a bit lower at 49%. ...
"Sixty-two percent of married men and 63% of married women are Protestant or Catholic. Among the never married folks it's 40% and 45% respectively. Just 31% of currently married men are nones and 30% of married women. ...
"What stood out to me here was that there wasn't a big difference between men and women in terms of religious composition. Married folks are way more likely to be religious compared to never married folks. Gender just doesn't matter that much." <www.tinyurl.com/2cp3d5wy>
"US depopulation plan hits new milestone: 'Kids are expensive and sticky': More women swap kids for careers according to plan" by Yudi Sherman (Frontline News, Dec 24 '23) -- "A decades-old plan to stifle population growth in the US has reached new milestones which suggest the program is a resounding success.
"According to a Statista report <www.tinyurl.com/wyf36duw> last week, a quarter of US 40-year-olds have never been married, an historical high since data started being published in 1990. Most of these adults live alone, with only 22% saying they live with a partner. Nearly half (46%) of Black Americans say they are still single by 40, followed by Hispanics (27%), Whites (20%), and Asian Americans (17%).
"Marriage avoidance is part of a depopulation plan designed over 50 years ago [by] an economist named Frederick Jaffe <www.tinyurl.com/5yyaufsd> ... vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America....
"Those of Jaffe's proposed measures which have been enforced, have been adopted by all major globalist organizations utterly, where homosexuality, abortion, birth control, and women in the workplace are all encouraged under the banner of 'gender equality.'
"Today, the Population Council's website <popcouncil.org> focuses on gender equality, abortion on demand, and even 'climate change' as a determinant of 'reproductive health and fertility.'
"Other globalist bodies have been investing heavily in bringing the Jaffe Memo to realization, particularly through an organization called FP2030. ...
"The organization <fp2030.org> plainly states that '[g]ender norms . . . create barriers to FP access' and '[w]ith greater funding and scale, gender-transformative approaches will advance gender equality and accelerate progress on contraceptive access and use.'
"In countries where birth prevention rates are stagnant, FP2030 says gender ideology, or 'positive gender norms,' can be 'more effective': 'In countries where contraceptive prevalence has plateaued, demand-side interventions promoting positive gender norms can be more effective than supply‑side approaches.'
FP2030's "Gender Strategy" presentation <www.tinyurl.com/bdfjktvm> notes that "feminist operatives are also very helpful in driving birth prevention.
"This may also explain why US intelligence agencies are heavily funding gender confusion around the globe through 'Pride' organizations and events. ...
"The desire among globalists to prevent births is aggressive. Even though certain birth preventive injections can increase the risk of HIV, for example, the World Health Organization (WHO) still recommends it be provided to women." <www.tinyurl.com/4ue48fn3>
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