That SonOfMan describes himself as “unsure” about what religion he is seems ironic for he is not merely unsure but quite ignorant of who Jesus of Nazareth is, why He took a human nature, of the reality of His miracles, the foundation of his Church and the miracles which He worked.
Of course he is also unfamiliar with reality of the miracles at Lourdes and the miracles of the sun at Fatima, as well as the miracles of many saints authenticated by doctors, all proclaiming the truth of Christ’s Church.
Perhaps he is in the position of some who were rank skeptics – as in the case of Rationalist Society in England who assigned one of its anti-Catholic journalist members, Sherwood Taylor, to write a book attacking the Church over Galileo. “After studying the case, Taylor was converted and received into the Catholic Church – grace sometimes works in strange ways!” The Six Days of Creation, Br Thomas Mary Sennott, Ravengate 1984, p 186]
Darwin’s bulldog, Thomas Huxley, “went to Rome and examined the Case, a little more thoroughly than the average humanist, probably intending to use it in his ongoing controversy with the Anglican bishop, Samuel Wilberforce. In a letter written to Mivart in 1885 he concluded, rather disappointedly, I presume – ‘I looked into the matter when I was in Italy and I arrived at the conclusion that the Pope and the College of Cardinals had rather the best of it.’ ”
[Arthur Koestler, *The Sleepwalkers, MacMillan, 1959, p 353; cited in The Six Days of Creation, Br Thomas Mary Sennott, Ravengate, 1984, p185-6].
He doesn’t seem to know that the great figures of the heyday of scientific discovery—including Copernicus, Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Kepler—actively professed their absolute faith in a Creator God, whose work incorporated rational rules awaiting their discovery. Far from being a rejection of religion, the “Scientific Revolution” was led mostly by deeply religious men acting on religious motivations.
Galileo picked a very inopportune time to attack the Bible after the revolt of Luther and Luther’s public rejection of some of Sacred Scripture; he was publicly disrespectful; he was wrong in his interpretation of the Bible, and he was wrong in his physics. He was not found guilty of heresy, but as suspected of heresy by the review of Cardinals. The popes promoted astronomical research, and there was no Papal or Conciliar declaration of heresy.
How could anyone misconstruing such realities expect to know anything about the evils of contraception?
There does not appear to be any connection to the matter under debate. Is this post attempted humour??