One of the themes that comes up on my YouTube algorithm has to do with the demographic collapse that is coming to China. There are a lot of doom and gloom predictions about how the Chinese have been faking their population statistics for years and that they are running out of young people. The idea is that there is no younger generation to work the jobs that are going to be necessary to keep the economy going.
Like so much fake news it’s hard to know what’s true and what’s not. It seems to be this is one of the common themes across many countries right now.
What I’m wondering about is how their suppression of Christianity plays into this and how the Christians have been conforming or non-conforming in the area of the one child policy. Historically the Christians adopted the same view of abortion and fertility that the Jews had. During the time of Rome, the population was also decreasing in the Roman areas. Into that world came the Jews with their many children, and the Christians followed along that priority. Now, if we move forward to the decline in so much of the world, but specifically China, I wonder if the Christians in China have been ignoring the limitations on having children, and thus are increasing not only by conversion, but by fertility.
I would assume there is no way of really knowing. Getting honest statistics out of a communist country is even harder than getting the Epstein files released. There are too many vested interests involved for clarity. In spite of that it does seem like this might be a wave of the future. I hear a lot about how many are converting to Christianity in China and how the church is growing. It could be their attitude towards children and family are part of that and if you put it all together, it would be interesting to look forward to hundred years and see if the demographic changes of the next century cause China to emerge as a dominant Christian country.
Speculation can be fun, but it doesn’t give us assurance about what is actually going to happen.
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
Opus 2026-021: Demographics and Decline
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