Contraception hypothetical

[PapaSquash]

Thanks for judging me! I didn’t realize that constructive criticism was not allowed. I was trying to do the article a favour by perhaps inspiring someone to take a editors pen to it… I will learn to not stick my head up in these forums, lest I get shot (or burnt at the stake) for wondering about something…

I asked a question about your post. Do you have anything to say about the substance of the article? What do you think was constructive in your post? What did you expect others to find inspiring?

If I had responded with: “Thanks for judging the article’s author!” " and the bishop whose imprimatur is on it! and the publisher! would that have been more to your liking?

 

[newbetx]

I’ve got a better question. The being fruitful and multiplying was for a stated purpose. Seems that we’ve filled the earth, and so maybe we don’t need to be quite so fruitful and multiplying. Anyone ever think of that? The other way of the putting the matter is simply that the RCC’s dogma here focuses on process and not on purpose and so misses the point of the exercise. The point of the exercise is its purpose and not its process [which is simply the means to the purpose end]. Lastly, for the OP, just my human advice, and I certainly make no claim to infallibility, but given the current size of the earth above water and the human population, if you’ve a plan to replace yourselves, I wouldn’t worry so much about the matter, as we’ve filled the earth, accomplished mission, and so simply keep it that way. Oh, and by the way, there’s two ways to go wrong here. The Torah describes the one wrong way, the refusal to fill the earth. The other wrong way is to keep on with the fruitful and multiplying such that we go beyond filling the earth and so a certain element or segment of the population is now going to gruesomely die owing to there simply not being sufficient carrying capacity. The process people never seem to consider that matter as their focus is on process and not purpose.

Well, your excuse for using contraception is flawed. Population “control” is quite possible without it. As well as control of STDs, infidelity and teen pregnancy. Of course, some would contend these are problems that medical science needs to fix, not ourselves.

Besides, there’s plenty of food. Just look around at all the fat people you see. Yes, there are pockets of starving and poor. Look who controls those areas… they aren’t starving. Greed and selfishness cause our distribution problems. Contraception is an act of selfishness just as most other problems with the world.

Oh, and as I have read, the RCC does address the purpose of sex, not just the process.

If we’ve truly “accomplished our mission,” wouldn’t that be the end of times? So while you may accept the gloom and doom predictions of the past, it doesn’t seem to be true as yet as we were supposed to have all starved to death a decade ago. We have developed ways to grow food at rates way beyond what was predicted back then. Also, we spoil more land and sea where we could live because humans are generally greedy and wasteful or careless.

So who will support you in your old age? My kids? Then you better hope I have a bunch of them and that I teach them to share and respect life.