I wasn't disagreeing with you about the influence of the Catholic Church, only suggesting there must be more to it because plenty of non-Catholics are overpopulating the Earth. One other thing I've heard is that girls have babies to have someone to love them. Most irresponsible, but at least comprehensible
I know you were not, and yes, I know that it is not only the church. But they have played a very large part. Their formal/informal opposition to CLEAR policies of birth control is something that to this day burns my guts. IN SPITE of clear evidence to the failure of whatever policy (if any), that they may claim from time to time, they have for family planing.
And that does not even count the fact that as far as I am concern all they sell is fairy stories. I believe in aliens (that is the extraterrestrial type), stories before I would believe in theirs.
Yes, I talked to a young woman who told me that although she had opposed to marry the man that her very traditional family approved of, because... well, she did not love him. She was ready to have his baby, or A baby with someone, just because she wanted to love someone, and that she, in turn, would be loved...
Is that "comprehensible" ? well... not to me. But I am not her.
I was raised Catholic. It seems to me that the natural progression of growing up is that you get smart about the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny, then Santa Clause, and finally the church. They've served their purpose in the development of the child. Why some people carry that stuff into adulthood...
Well... assuming I buy into the Santo Clos etc... I may see a point to those. But the church ? sorry, I can't accept that, it's like teaching a child to be a hypocrite. Besides, they have no facts. It is all made up. pure and unadulterated brain diarrhea (my opinion).
Here read this:
Consider the six days of Genesis as a figure of speech for what has in fact been 4 billion years. On this scale, one day equals something like six hundred and sixty-six million years, and thus, all day Monday and until Tuesday noon, creation was busy getting the world going. Life began Tuesday noon, and the beautiful organic wholeness of it developed over the next four days. At 4 pm Saturday, the big reptiles came on. Five hours later, when the redwoods appeared, there were no more big reptiles. At three minutes before midnight on the last day, man appeared. At one-fourth of a second before midnight, Christ arrived. At one-fortieth of a second before midnight, the Industrial Revolution began. We are surrounded with people who think that what we have been doing for that one-fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely. They are considered normal, but they are stark raving mad.
~ David Brower
and this...
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."
H. L. Mencken. |
