Read Tamar's excellent analysis for why Scripture doesn't speak to the issue of contraception at all. If reason and natural law are the basis for this prohibition what do reason and natural law say about the perfectly reasonable decision not to expend ourselves as brood mares and impoverish ourselves trying to raise 12-14 children? Who has standing to tell us what sort of life we will make for ourselves and the children we choose to have? A celibate priest with no scriptural basis for his decision? I think not my friend. There is no natural law basis for the decision to waste ourselves physically or economically raising countless children we need not have and neither one's neighbor nor a priest has the right to even suggest the nature of the loving relationship a couple may have.
There is Scriptural reason for no contraception. It was given already. I don't buy Tamar73's interpretation. I'll stick with the Early Church Fathers on this one! I thank God for giving us a Church to help settle these differences.
The Church does not state that you have to be a brood mare. You won't find any particular number listed in the Catechism for how many children you are supposed to have. You are upset about something that does not even exsist.
You REALLY should look into taking a Natural Family Planning class. It's cheaper than artificial birth control and so much healthier for your body. I have 3 children by choice. We hope for more. Not everyone using NFP has a big family.
Your attitude about priests seems so ugly. They are servants of God. They love Him so much they have completely dedicated their lives to Him. They are not evil men plotting behind closed doors all the ways they can attempt to make your life miserable. Priests just want to guide us in God's law so that we may have the joy of eternal life with God. I hope one day you can see that.
My argument made no mention of any biblical passage so the reference above is irrelevant to my post.
If reason and natural law are the basis for this prohibition what do reason and natural law say about the perfectly reasonable decision not to expend ourselves as brood mares and impoverish ourselves trying to raise 12-14 children?
Your offensive and inflammatory hyperbole against mothers of large families notwithstanding, there are many licit means available to limit pregnancies for those with legitimate reasons to do so.
Who has standing to tell us what sort of life we will make for ourselves and the children we choose to have?
God, and those whom he has given the authority.
A celibate priest with no scriptural basis for his decision?
Even if there were a perfectly clear scriptural prohibition against contraception, I suspect many mainline protestant denominations would just fabricate a legalistic loop hole to allow their perversions. Despite the unambiguous biblical ban on homosexual sodomy, many large denominations have already begun to permit this as a permissible lifestyle for their congregates and clergy to live out openly.
I think not my friend.
Based on what you have written here, I doubt that you would acknowledge anyone as having any moral standing above your own.
There is no natural law basis for the decision to waste ourselves physically or economically raising countless children
It is far more likely that anyone who claims that children are a physical or economic waste even understands what natural law is.
neither one's neighbor nor a priest has the right to even suggest the nature of the loving relationship a couple may have.
BINGO!!! There we go! Just as Justice Scalia so eloquently predicted, any attempt to justify immoral sexual activity will ultimately lead to a defense of all perversion, such as sodomy, polygamy, and bestiality. You just made the most compelling case against contraception on this whole thread!