Well okay, tell everyone’s grandparents in the 50s that they were all doing it wrong then.
Well, they weren’t gods and they didn’t try to play one on TV either.
They had a different sense of God than we Catholics have today. A deep abiding reverence that I think was likely lost with the modern changes of Vatican II (in Catholicism) and the earlier acceptance of birth control by the "29 Lambeth Conference (Anglicanism?).
My sponsor told me that for her age group, Christians across denominations in general, regarded artificial contraception as a more horrific sin than abortion.
I remember asking her how they could have believed that because abortion destroys human life.
She explained to me that in earlier Christian reasoning, abortion was very evil because it did murder human life. However, the human life that was murdered at least had the opportunity to have come into existence at God’s command, allowing at least part of God’s Will to make that human life in His image and likeness, even if the human life only existed for a small time.
However, with artificial contraception, the couple puts themselves into God’s place, choosing to thwart God’s Will of creating human life in His image and likeness. My sponsor and her Christian peers believed it was more more sinful to put self into God’s rightful position of power as the Author of Human Life, and obstruct God’s Will by preventing God himself from bringing a new human being into existence. I was very surprised at this reasoning, but it did make perfect sense from a Christian perspective of serving God.
My sponsor into the Faith was a Catholic convert
