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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (100244)	4/4/2005 3:39:56 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, you lost me a bit with your post. I should have said no birth control except the rhythm method, I agree, but still I fail to see how any additional methods of birth control could fall within the boundaries of Catholic theology, which clearly rejects any artificial, medical, hormonal etc. separation of egg and sperm, and honors at all times the possibility of new life being created. The Catholic Church maintains its power at this point in history by rampant recruitment in third world nations with high birth rates, and then advocating the status quo there. The more Catholics on the planet, the better for the Church. In a way this is like the whole situation with priests, who historically had families. The medieval Church tired of supporting their families, and so ruled that priests must be celibate. I think if you look beneath the veneer of Catholic policy, you will see a lot of practicality and politics playing out. We can see from the falling birth rates in Europe, Japan and Caucasian America that the normalization of birth control and abortion are perhaps not such 100% good things for society. Some problems are solved; others are created. And of course sex is really beautiful and sacred when the possibility of conception is a positive.