Fertility Idolatry

online "pronatalism" has jumped the shark

The Adoration of the Golden Calf, Nicolas Poussin, 1633

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, and anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give… An idol is whatever you look at and say in your heart of hearts: ‘If I have that, then I’ll feel my life has meaning, then I’ll know I have value, then I’ll feel significant and secure.’ There are many ways to describe that kind of relationship to something, but perhaps the best one is worship.

Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods

Anything can become an idol. Even goods that a fallen world treats with animosity can become idols, especially when enumerated and upheld as evidence of the piety or superior insight of the “dissidents” who treasure them.

Fertility, for many in the conservative media space, has become one of those goods.