“In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.”

One problem with the Natal Conference/pro-natalism movement and other things like this is that the more you try to "get someone to do something", the more they naturally resist it—perhaps even out of an instinct of mimetic rivalry. Especially when you're aggressive, political, and cringe about it. This is a massive and underdiscussed problem of evagelization of any kind, including Christianity.

The ability to learn new things is metabolically expensive. If you don’t do it, you won’t be able to do it.

A small child slipped through the White House fence before being intercepted by the U.S. Secret Service. One shows an armed agent carrying the toddler across the lawn before passing him to another agent and eventually back to his family “without incident.” There was no threat to security.

“You fast, but Satan does not eat. You labor fervently, but Satan never sleeps. The only dimension with which you can outperform Satan is by acquiring humility, for Satan has no humility.”

+ St. Moses the Black