2006-10-07 19:07:22 · 12 answers · asked by ABIGAIL E 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.
With love in Christ.
2006-10-08 17:48:57 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any preventive form are considered in line with abortion. It's unfortunate that they don't realize how often sperm & eggs don't "match",miscarriages, etc. If god designed bodies to function that way, the technically, should he exist, is the biggest provider of abortion. Mmm, can you smell the irony? And, like some of the other posters pointed out, Catholics at least though probably more than a few Protestants and/or Orthodx believe along the lines that sex if for procreation only. Even of of the old "saints" who also were equated with being a philosopher (either, Aquinas, Aqustine...maybe Anselm, but I lean more towards one of the first two) even staed that enjoying sex during proceation would be considered a sin...this coming from a hedonist who converted later to Catholisim. Personally, I think he just got to old, didn't have any Viagra, and so since he couldn't do it, believed no one should.
2006-10-08 02:29:32 · answer #2 · answered by Jester 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must mean the Catholic church. Not all churches prohibit contraceptives and sterilization.
The reason for this lies in the historical teachings that affirm life to be sacred and special because it is given by God.
2006-10-08 02:17:44 · answer #3 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a control the religious leaders use on the masses. no sex before marriage PERIOD OR ELSE!!!!and if there are options for birth control then the fornicaters will eventually get pregnant and be found out.
I should know I was one of them LOL!
2006-10-08 02:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by rwl_is_taken 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they believe that people shouldn't be having sex unless it is in order to have a child.
2006-10-08 02:17:09 · answer #5 · answered by Stephanie S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because their un-evolved brains are stuck in the 12th century.
2006-10-08 02:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church believes that sex should be for procreation, not enjoyment.
2006-10-08 02:14:58 · answer #7 · answered by James P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because organized religion is about control.
2006-10-08 02:12:32 · answer #8 · answered by Renee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they prohibit masturbation too. spoilsports - it's the last source of free entertainment
2006-10-08 02:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
so the preist can get in to the women of the congregation maybe?
2006-10-08 02:18:41 · answer #10 · answered by devilinme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋