Religious people have reproduced more since at least antiquity. Try Rodney Stark’s excellent “The Rise of Christianity” for a well-founded argument about how much of a difference a ban on abortion and infanticide can make over dozens of generations. So it seems logical to assume that most atheists who have ever lived have been children of religious parents.
If you decide against having babies, you are effectively outsourcing the production of babies to religious and third-world people.
Babies produced by religious families can be deconverted. Between YouTube and The God Delusion, we’re getting a lot better at that lately. Babies produced in the third world need access to educational and economical opportunities, and we’re getting a bit better at that, too. In either case, you get someone who’s about as likely to contribute relevant insights to the knowledge of the species as your own child would.
Religious people have reproduced more since at least antiquity. Try Rodney Stark’s excellent “The Rise of Christianity” for a well-founded argument about how much of a difference a ban on abortion and infanticide can make over dozens of generations. So it seems logical to assume that most atheists who have ever lived have been children of religious parents.
If you decide against having babies, you are effectively outsourcing the production of babies to religious and third-world people.
Babies produced by religious families can be deconverted. Between YouTube and The God Delusion, we’re getting a lot better at that lately. Babies produced in the third world need access to educational and economical opportunities, and we’re getting a bit better at that, too. In either case, you get someone who’s about as likely to contribute relevant insights to the knowledge of the species as your own child would.