[Antoninus]

It just seems you were being a tad judgmental, considering you really don't know why someone is childless. It's not always by choice.

Find me one place where I condemned someone who was childless because of biological sterility. You won't so don't bother looking.

There are noble reasons to remain childless--devoting your life to God, or a military career, for example. These are selfless acts. It is only those who remain childless for the pursuit of material goods, the luxury life, political power, or laziness that I find fault with.

And even if it is, that's between the person and God and really not for others to judge.

I'm not a relativist. And God tends to get irked when someone calls evil good and no one stands up to correct them. On my day of judgement, when I stand before God, I know that I will be faulted if I remained silent when I heard someone praise evil and denounce good. I would much rather incur your censure in this life than His in the next.

[linda_22003]

"There are noble reasons to remain childless--devoting your life to God, or a military career, for example. These are selfless acts. It is only those who remain childless for the pursuit of material goods, the luxury life, political power, or laziness that I find fault with."

And those are the only two possible scenarios? There's nothing in between? I learn so much around here.

[Allegra]

I would much rather incur your censure in this life than His in the next.

And I would much rather come under His judgment than under yours. Yours matters not a whit to me.