Birth Control?

Question

Its my understanding that some churchs are against birth control in all forms other then abstinence. What about married people who don't want more kids then they can care for. I was wondering what's the problem with using birth control.

Answer 1

Do what is best for your family.

Answer 2

Conception is seen by some churches as an area where God should be making the decisions. That's the gist of it. If you are married, you can be abstinent in the portion of the woman's cycle when she is ovulating. This is how it is handled by Catholics.

There's an old joke though. "What do you call people who use the rhythm method of birth control?"

Ans: Parents.

I know, I am the 10th of 12 children from a Catholic family who didn't use any other birth control than abstinence.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church is the only Church against Birth Control.
Birth Control is selfish and was created because of lust.
With Birth control you can have sex with anyone and never get pregnant. It is all about lust, with no regard to love. If people don't want to have alot of kids there is always ABSTINENCE.

Answer 4

They are against birth control because it would mean more parishioners for the church if you continue to have children. Thus more future members + their families, so on and so forth. If all the current members of a church all would use birth control and no new members were introduced through the means of family, then the church would substantially become stagnant.

Answer 5

There are other options, such as Natural Family Planning.

It is used to find the most fertile time of a womans cycle, for having children. Once you know when to conceive, you also know when you can't.

But that leaves the option open for possible children, which is the intent of having sex in the first place - more children.

Birth Control is wrong, it prevents a birth - a gift from God. Knowing that God is all knowing and all powerful, do you really think that he will give you something as precious as a baby if he knows that you are unable to take care of it? I don't think so. God only gives us what we can handle.

Answer 6

Archaic notions lead to archaic rules. With the population at an all time high (too many people for the Earth to support), AND with STD's that are fatal, you would think the churches would relax their stance and save their flocks. But common sense and religion rarely go hand in hand. IN fact, in view of the world population, you would think that homosexuality would be encouraged. It is certainly one way to control the population, and in fact, in nature, is exactly what happens.

Answer 7

mostly this is a catholic ideal. the premis of this ideal is that you are not to flirt with gods desire to create. if you use birth control then you are subverting gods will. personally i think since we are talking about catholics that they wanted every way they could think of to find out if people were sinning and therefor reprehensible and worth going after and women who were pregnant were often targets.

Answer 8

Catholics don't believe in contraceptives such as the pill or condoms. We use natural family planning which is to have sex on days when a woman is not ovulating

Answer 9

Because you are only allowed to feel that good when you are planting more tithers. It's not your little treat to have whenever you want. It's a priviledge given to you by God to make the "O" face. You know it's true, you pray to him when it gets really good. So, just have more abortions, kay? G'bless.

Answer 10

The Bible says nothing about birth control. I do not think that it is wrong.

Answer 11

The original prohibition by the Catholic Church was basically to make more Catholics. Now it's tradition.