Isn't the Church's stand on birth control while maintaining the Catholic quo also causeing most of the misery in Africa, and South/Central America, and Mexico?n All due ot over population?
2006-09-30 12:15:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Remember the Catholic Church believes that God allows natural birth control.
I don't think the Church will ever change it's teachings on abortion and types of artificial birth control that causes spontaneous abortions. The killing of a human being will never be accepted.
I have heard the Church is rethinking it's position about types of artificial birth control that stops conception from happening, like condoms.
But even if an infected person was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-30 18:39:27 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Evil is a relative term. All religious teaching describe good and evil, right and wrong, what is just and unjust. And these teachings are interpreted by men and women differently and is what make it so dangerous.
Overpopulation on the other hand, well that happens when there are more births than deaths in a year. Sure birth control and abortion will help, but so does war, famine, and disease.
The misery is caused by war, poverty, famine, lack of education and medical attention, and the governments and businesses who will not help stop this cycle. It's hard to get an education or medical attention when your family needs you to work so food can be put on the table, or if your always on the run because war is just outside your home and you may be killed because your of the wrong religion, color, tribe, or your just in the wrong place at the right time.
Its not religions fault. It's those people who use religion as their argument, their tool for why we must do the things we do.
2006-10-01 12:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by joe s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may be right but the church will never see it that way. They will not look at the fact that in Africa it is believe that if a man with aids sleeps with 100 virgins he will be cured. The Pope does not see the cardboard villages in Mexico and south/central America. The "church" has long been in the business of brain washing people.
Please don't take this the wrong way either. I think that faith does a lot to bolster a person. But faith should NEVER Dictate. The church is fallowing the laws that were set forth far before we had a population of 6 billion +. Faith as well as love is blind. Now I'm not an atheist, and I do love God above all else. I am a left wing republican. I say it that way because I think that there is a separation of church and state. The topics of birth control and abortion are religiously based. I guess though that the followers of these faiths that tell them that their only option is to have as many children as possible make their own choices. It is 2006 and as much as I would like to blame all of these problems on the Pope, it is their choice to do as he says.
2006-09-30 19:29:15 · answer #3 · answered by kwingfan13 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So you are saying that third world countries where they have limited education, let alone knowledge of birth control, are cranking out babies simply because they are Catholic...and THAT "FACT" in your mind is the cause of over population? Hah!! Or maybe it could just be that illiterate people procreate like bunnies because they don't know any better. Jeesh...try to be a little more bigoted why don't you.
2006-09-30 19:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First you must come to some clear understanding both of the Pope's and your definition of "Evil". " Some of what we term good and evil may not actually be that. It is therefore necessary to take a hard look at what constitutes good and evil. We are inclined to identify good with whatever is pleasant to us at the present and evil with what is personally unpleasant, uncomfortable, or disturbing. Yet the Bible seems to see things somewhat differently."Christian Theology by Millard J. Erickson
You must therefore ask yourself what your definition of good and evil is and also the views of the other person, i.e., The Pope.
Because it appears both of you have different concepts of these words, it is impossible to answer the question as asked.
2006-09-30 19:25:11 · answer #5 · answered by pstrohm_conte 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Pope has every right to make the Catholic churches policies. People have every right to leave the Church if they don't agree with them. People everywhere have the DUTY not to have children that they are not capable of taking care of.Someones sexual pleasure does not take president over common sense and the reality of their situation.
2006-09-30 19:26:50 · answer #6 · answered by Michael 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can't even convince me of the "evil of the Chruch's views on abortion and birth control." And I'm not even religious.
2006-09-30 19:25:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, people having sex in Africa infecting others on purpose is the problem. If they would follow absentse and not have sex with anyone but thier wife, this would not be happening.
So you have no logic at all to your question.
2006-09-30 21:38:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course, but that isn;t the Pope's problem, his job is only to DICTATE what NOT to do.......not how to fix it when you listen.
2006-09-30 19:18:59 · answer #9 · answered by CrazyCatLady 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, he has his own version in the book called the bible....not did i say he was right
2006-09-30 19:18:50 · answer #10 · answered by blue_eyed_southernman 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋