If "every sperm is sacred" and contraception is not allowed, then what happens to all of the female's eggs that don't get fertilized every month and just wash away with each period?
Is that not also a waste?
2007-12-29 11:14:16 · 19 answers · asked by ♂ Equibrilium ♀ 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Contraception is trying to take control of God's Will. That is not the same as the natural disposal of unused eggs.
2007-12-29 11:17:25 · answer #1 · answered by Tasha 6 · 7⤊ 7⤋
Does anyone really believe that every sperm is sacred? Because that's silly. A sperm isn't a sacred thing. Neither is an egg. A fertilized egg, though, that's a different story. Once the life has started to grow that fertilized egg has much more value than an unfertilized one. It is on its way to becoming a human life, and human life is a sacred thing.
2007-12-29 11:24:48 · answer #2 · answered by Blue Eyed Christian 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No matter what Monty Python says, the Catholic Church does not teach that "every sperm is sacred".
The Catholic Church also allows natural family planning.
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 is against the will of God.
Among many other methods, natural family planning includes abstinence which, naturally, would mean that the woman's egg would not be fertilized.
Here is the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop's website on Natural Family Planning: http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/nfp/
With love in Christ.
2007-12-29 14:24:05 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Neither is "sacred." In fact, there are too many people on this earth already.
John W said: "Even in the case of rape... you do not repay an evil with a more vile evil..."
Wow, gimme some of that good ol' non-denominational Christian lovin'!!
I'd be willing to bet that the whole issue would be different if it was men who had the babies.
2007-12-29 11:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by phoenixshade 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A women can have up to 500 eggs in her lifetime, try not letting all them got to waste
2007-12-29 11:25:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am a spirit called man, born of God my Father.
The mother of my body is of women, my Father is the Holy Spirit of God. I was not conceived by flesh, nor blood, nor the will of men, but of God.
The First born Son of God has built the Father a place to dwell in and it is me. I am the house/tabernacle, the Church of God.
My body will die, but my spirit will be "born again to a new house. It does not matter if I die a thousand deaths, I will live again and walk the earth until the the time of the "Blessed"
2007-12-29 11:37:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes this really shits me. If God really cared, with all the famine, war and crap that is going on in this earth, you would expect he would understand if a man and woman were going to take the reponsibility to use contraception. It is not murder if there is no embryo to start with.
God i'm assuming gave people intelligence. Contraception is one of those intellectual things.
*rolls eyes*
2007-12-29 11:37:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is just another example of man-made rules. "Wasted sperm" means fewer humans to brainwash and fill the offering plates.
2007-12-29 11:22:54 · answer #8 · answered by starcrssdlover 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
whom stated every sperm is sacred?
2007-12-29 11:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by Adam of the wired 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, only sperm is sacred. The other is just from a woman.
(I actually had a Catholic tell me this once.)
2007-12-29 11:17:11 · answer #10 · answered by amemahoney 6 · 5⤊ 6⤋