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To: Polycarp
And I bristle at those who insist a Just God would not provide a reliable natural and knowable means of delaying or spacing pregnancy so that each conceived child has a better chance to live.

So God was not just until the sympto-thermal method appeared on the scene? His justice was lacking until it was completed by this missing piece of the puzzle? And the billions of humans who lived before the Knaus and Ogino were born, they suffered under God's injustice? Perhaps Onan also should complain against God's injustice, he wouldn't have needed to spill his seed if only Tamar had owned a basal body thermometer?

You get credit at least for an entirely new view of theodicy.

25 posted on 07/09/2003 12:07:56 PM PDT by Maximilian
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To: Maximilian; narses
So God was not just until

If you grasped population demographics and agriculture based economics versus current economics and demographics, you would also grasp why the Holy Spirit guided the Church to this knowledge at this time in history. I know there is no such thing as overpopulation. But I also know there are real concrete circumstances when NFP use is morally licit, and rare circumstances where NFP use verges on a necessity (Catholics in China who will have their baby forcefully aborted.)

NFP is not immoral if used in grave circumstances. I have seen these grave circumstances first hand, both at home and abroad. That is why I bristle at those who condemn NFP use and NFP users, when such are NOT condemned by the Church, if grave circumstances for recourse to NFP exist.

35 posted on 07/10/2003 7:43:45 AM PDT by Polycarp (When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" - Mother Theresa)
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