And the act of sex and marriage is for procreation only. Nothing else matters.
This is untrue and we have showed you that it untrue. Why do you persist in your insistance otherwise?
Anybody who can not have children can not marry.
This is also untrue and you have been shown that it is untrue numerous times.
I am glad that you have come to realize that God exists and will be pursuing RCIA. But, I do hope that you go into RCIA with a much more open attitude than you display here. When confronted with what the Church teaches, you cannot continue to put your fingers in your ears and hum. You must move beyond that and exercise your intellect and will towards understanding the teaching.
Any thought of “wow she’s good looking I’d want to have sex with her” is considered a sin. Premarital sex is considered a sin. Absolutely any sort of Birth control is considered a sin. Any act of sex must end in copulation. No seed of any type must spilled or it’s a sin.
This is a good start-- a good understanding of “thou shall not”.
But, marriage and sexuality within marriage were created GOOD. There is more to sexuality than what you cannot do-- the very real meaning of our sexuality when it is used for the good. I hope you will begin exploring what the nuptial union of spouses means in Catholicism and how it images the Trinity.
In short summary, any act of sex must be within a marriage and must be done with pro-creation in mind, period.
No. It must be ordered to procreation. That is not the same thing as being done with “procreation in mind.” I think you’ve moved very quickly from a lifestyle where “anything goes” to trying to embrace a lifestyle where you perceive “nothing goes.” Many former pagans in the Roman world did the same thing, and it led to heresies that regarded the flesh as bad.
Don’t go overboard in your pursuit of your newfound faith. You have a lot to learn and a lot to absorb. We never stop learning about the Faith-- it is just that deep.
Many of us here, who are further along in this lifelong journey of Faith, would love to help you learn. But, we can’t do that if you are going to continually retort with smart remarks and suspicion of our motives.
If you want to learn, we’ll help you. If you don’t, why are you here?
That is the only purpose in restricting everything else, even if the Church doesn’t *directly *teach it. Otherwise it should not be so restrictive. A random thought as long as it is not acted upon shouldn’t be so bad. Masturbation shouldn’t be so bad in certain circumstances, such as for those people who have absolutely no chance to find a loving wife. And people should be able to choose when they want to have a child or not so that way the child can be certain to have a loving home rather than be an unwanted child or an abused child because the parents are not ready for children.
Keep working on your studies. You still haven’t discovered the purpose of sex.
The pleasure we derive from the sexual union is not its purpose, it’s the by-product. Much like we get pleasure from eating-- but the purpose is to nourish our bodies. If food was not pleasurable, we would not eat it and our bodies would suffer. If sex was not pleasurable, we would not do it and would die as a species. That God of ours is a smart one.
Again, sexual union between spouses was created GOOD. But, sexual pleasure is not an end unto itself. It is the by-product of the loving union of the spouses, ordered to procreation.
That is why it is wrong to seek sexual pleasure for it’s own sake.
And I’m glad the Catholic Church is not running this country. Because so many people would be left out of being loved under these rules it’s not even funny.
But love has nothing to do with marriage.
Sex does not equal love. You seem to be equating the two.
I’m assuming 1ke asked if you are a Catholic, because Catholic teaching would mean more to you if you are Catholic versus non-Catholic.
), I am happy you are making that step. It took me a long time, even after conversion, to understand and then accept all Church teaching.
