Seems like a reasonable idea from the point of view of religious leaders - let your flock proliferate as much as possible so that you (hopefully) have more followers in the future.
2007-04-14 12:56:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It has more to do with a belief that sex is a nasty business that must be avoided at all costs, unless it is to be redeemed by the possibility of a resultant pregnancy. Making more Catholics and controlling sexually active women by keeping them in fear of unwanted pregnancy are merely convenient side effects.
2007-04-14 13:13:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No...you are so wrong.
Contraception leads to the objectification of women.
Don't believe me? I can prove it WITHOUT mentioning GOD.
Take a look at what has happened to women since the availability of the Pill.
Women had the 'freedom' to have sex whenever they wanted, without the 'fear' of pregnancy. ( Hmmm...isn't that one of the two REASONS for sex? The other being the good of SPOUSES.)
Well, that led to more unplanned pregnancies....so then we had to legalize abortion to kill those unwanted babies.
All so women could go on being sexually available to men.
We have porn on MTV, songs on the radio about rape, and sexually active 5th graders.
Before contracveption became easily available, a woman was to be wooed, treated like a queen. Her husband worked hard so she could have the luxury of staying home to raise their children.
Contraception screwed that up. Now men know they don't need to WORK to win women over- women have been taught to use contraception to "protect' themselves and so they jump into bed with whoever. Men get all the sex they want with no consequences and no need to work to develop a relationship.
The proliferation of artificial contraception has led to legalized abortion, adultery, divorce and shattered homes.
That is without even BEGINNING to discuss that the pill, patch, shot, IUDs ALL CAUSE ABORTIONS. Yep. That's one of the mechanisms byu which they work- by changing the lining of the cervix so a baby cannot imp,lant- that's why period's are lighter on the Pill.
More and more non-Catholic denominations are wising up to what the Catholic Church has taught all along- artificial contraception is immoral.
2007-04-16 21:03:50 · answer #2 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been tracking this off and on for a long time. Apparently the prohibition on contraception came to a "Must be" stage in the dark ages when plagues swept Europe one after another and populations were failing. However once something like that is put in play, it quickly becomes part of Dogma.
2007-04-14 20:50:35 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Funny you refer to a "Catholic prohibition" when in reality is was the Protestant denominations that slowly allowed contraception.
In 1930, at the Lambeth Conference, Anglicans began permitting the use of contraception on a limited basis; other denominations quickly absorbed the secular sexual morality that flooded into the Protestant world. Today no Protestant church maintains the historic Christian faith on this issue. Only the Catholic Church has stood firm and resisted the onslaught of secularism in sexual ethics.
2007-04-14 20:02:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. But it's also based on the OT injunction to be fruitful and multiply. My opinion is the OT doesn't apply to Christians and we should have listened to Marcion and dropped the whole thing from our Book. However,I agree demographic expansion will operate in the interests of that or any other religion,ethnic group,nation or ideology.
2007-04-14 20:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's more of a Mormon standpoint, hence the polygamy thing in some sects.
The Catholic stance is that the Bible says to be fruitful and multiply. It doesn't say to have more children than your environment or income can sustain, guess they left that part out.
2007-04-14 20:02:38 · answer #6 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every religious leader hopes to outbreed the followers of any rivals. That's how they stay in power and that's how the meme gets passed along. Funny how it's mostly the stupid people breeding...
2007-04-14 20:16:52 · answer #7 · answered by theoryparker 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe back in the dark ages. But not now.
The church's attitude seems to be more - If the congregation cannot be faithful and stay in a monogamous relationship - then they deserve to be punished and die of AIDS.
2007-04-14 20:12:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yep
2007-04-14 20:02:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not hardly but perhaps it was to stop stupid questions from getting out of hand.
2007-04-14 21:31:03 · answer #10 · answered by guppy137 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋