confirming<\/em> his point.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
And it might even give support to the Pope\u2019s idea that a society in which deliberate non-celibate childlessness is widespread is \u201cdepressed,\u201d and it seems to suggest that such a decision might be linked, in many cases, to a \u00a0rejection of God and of transcendent purpose.<\/p>\n
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Deliberate childlessness is spreading, though, in the West \u2014 traditional Europe, for example, is aging and perhaps altogether dying \u2014 and particularly among the more highly educated. \u00a0Which means that, relatively speaking, the proportion of uneducated people in the West and worldwide seems destined to rise, as they continue to multiply at higher rates, over time, than their higher-degreed \u201cbetters\u201d do.<\/p>\n
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Worthy of contemplation.<\/p>\n
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Incidentally, for what it\u2019s worth, one\u00a0Lillie Freeze reported once having heard Joseph Smith make the following prophecy: \u201cHe said the time would come when none but the women of the Latter-day Saints would be willing to bear children.\u201d (Young Woman\u2019s Journal<\/em>\u00a0[November 1890: 81])<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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