is it true catholics dont believe in birth control?

Question

if so, why not?

Answer 1

The Catholic *Church* doesn't believe in birth control. But Catholics generally do... Hold on, I'll look up some polling data.

POLLING DATA: 90% of Catholics support birth control/contraception.

As for why the Vatican opposes it. I have two theories. (1) They have to save face. They are "infallible", so they can't just change their minds. God has to change His mind, apparently. (2) Less birth control means more kids, means more tithe, means more money for the Vatican.

Answer 2

Actually Catholics do believe in birth control. The thing is they don't believe in using it. The reason being is that you would be attempting to play God if you prevent one of his children from being conceived.

They're kinda a crazy bunch.

Answer 3

I'm not a catholic but i think Christianity doesn't favor out burs-ted population and an overburdened earth.Christianity doesn't favor abortion but as it is said many times "prevention is better than cure" so i guess preventing an unwanted and unnecessary pregnancy is not a sin.
i don't get people.!!!!!why cant they adopt a child; raise it as of there own and love with all there heart and thus prove to be a true human being in all respects .

Answer 4

The Church believes that the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act cannot be separated. It is not about having more members, as some have claimed. The Church is also opposed to in vitro fertilization for the same reason.

Answer 5

They do believe in birth control. It is just the method that they differ.

Answer 6

Up until very recently, most people understood that children were blessings from God, and that a close relationship between a husband and wife, and between God and the entire family, was the most important thing in life.

This most basic and fundamental concept leaves little room or rationale for artificial birth control.

The Catholic Church believes that God created man higher than all the other creatures, in his own image and likeness, and that God's unique blessings endowed man with a very special type of human dignity.

Man lost that dignity when Adam fell, but Christ's atoning sacrifice restored it, without exception.

This divine blessing and high level of human dignity applies also to sexual matters, but only in the context of a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and only when every sex act is open to the possibility of procreation, which remains its' primary purpose.

The various barrier methods of artificial birth control serve to render a healthy couple sterile. They place an artificial "wall" between the spouses, which denies the primary purpose of their union, and which also serves to cut them off from the blessings of God, which are their offspring.

Many other types of birth control (primarily, the pill) act as chemical abortificiants, capable of killing a newly conceived baby, often silently, and without it even being noticed.

The demonstrated failure rate of all contraceptives, which is dependent on various personal, social, and economic factors, and which ranges from a low of about 5% to a high of over 60%, depending on the method employed, also leads to a high incidence of abortion.

And in the case of non-married, non-monogamous couples, the high failure rate of condoms, especially in 3rd world countries, where inferior quality product, poor storage, and poor distribution practices are routinely encountered, encourages the spread of aids and other sexually transmitted diseases.

In short, God said, "Be fruitful and multiply."

He never said, "Go out and screw your brains out, with no thought about the consequences."

For more on this now little understood subject, go here:

http://www.theologyofthebody.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=78&Itemid=61

Answer 7

In bronze age Israel you needed to outbreed the competition. It does not seem to have ocurred to those in the Catholic heirarchies that on a planet with 7 billion people that the idea might be just a tad outdated.

Answer 8

the church doctrine denies the concept of birth control. not many catholic women follow the church teaching, preferring to not be a baby factory. they just don't tell the priest they take the pill.

Answer 9

none of the 3 major religions (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism) believe in birth control. according to religion, its unnatural and goes against the purpose of sex. its also seen as a waste of semen, which God doesnt like.

Answer 10

The Dude got it correct. The reason is to make more Catholics.