While I thought the Bible discouraged Christians from acting as psychics, it seems to be a popular past time for many Christian leaders. While they may think they’re prophets, the Bible seemly doesn’t encourage its followers to predict the future.
But lately we’ve been hit with a number of Christian works doing just that, including the entire Left Behind series as well as the video, 2016: Obama’s America. There’s evidently big money cashing in on future fears.
Enter James Dobson from Focus on the Family.
Dobson has written the first novel in a trilogy predicting what life will be like in 30 years.
Working with co-author Kurt Bruner, a Texas pastor, he’s out with “Fatherless,” the first of a dystopian trilogy that looks into the future when the elderly outnumber the young, advancing the culture wars to new dimensions.
In this fictional world, couples with more than two children are called “breeders.”
Actually, that term is already being used in some circles today to disparage those who consider children a blessing rather than a burden. As we said in the prologue, a happy home is the highest expression of God’s image on earth. Marriage and parenthood echo heaven, something hell can’t abide. In 1977 I founded what became a worldwide ministry dedicated to the preservation of the home. That effort placed me in one cultural skirmish after another, unwittingly confronting forces much darker than I knew. I don’t pretend to comprehend what occurs in the unseen realm. But I know that we all live in what C.S. Lewis called “enemy-occupied territory.”
The elderly are encouraged to end their lives, too.
The story is set in the year 2042 when the economic pyramid flips, too few young bearing the burden of a rapidly aging population. These trends are already creating headlines around the globe. Japan, for example, has the oldest average citizen on the planet. Last year they sold more adult diapers than baby diapers, a trend coming fast to every developed nation in the world including the United States. A few weeks ago the finance minister of the newly elected government said the elderly need to “hurry up and die” because they can’t sustain the social safety net. Bleak? You bet.
Of course, marriage is an issue.
The single threat to our future is the trend away from forming families to begin with. Marriage is in drastic decline. For the first time in history more women are single than married. Raising children is now considered an inconvenient burden rather than life’s highest calling. For the first time in our history there are fewer households with children than without. The most basic human instinct, forming families, is in dramatic decline. And the implications of that reality, as we’ve depicted in these novels, are breathtaking. That’s why we chose the looming demographic crisis as the backdrop to these stories.
All this info can be found in book one of his series. Imagine what books two and three have in store. I’m reminded of the movie Spaceballs when Mel Brooks announced his sequel: Spaceballs II: the Search for More Money.
