Is Overpopulation a Religious Problem?
If you listen to religious text and understand a few simple sentences, you will see that there are plenty of religions all over the world that encourage the multiplication of mankind. In the Bible, God tells man to be fruitful and multiply. If you read this a little differently, you might take it that God wants men to eat as much fruit as he wants to and plant more trees so that he can have more fruit and be fruitful. That’s not exactly how most Christians read this Bible verse. Christians need to have more children, and their children need to have more children. This is how they interpret the words, to be fruitful and multiply. I do believe that religions all over the world play an important part in our worlds population problem today. It’s not the people who are educated, that are constantly reproducing, in today’s world. Most religions support population expansion, but what are they going to do, once the world becomes so overpopulated, that we can’t even take care of ourselves. This
