When I was younger I used to think as you.
I have learned, as I have gotten older, that the Church has a point.
When people choose to use birth control, what should be a sanctified and serious act becomes nothing more than entertainment. And a child born through entertainment isn’t really valued.
Much better, I think, to help those people who are in poor countries, which is what I do, and which is encouraged by Catholic charities.
I personally don’t think birth control has made our nation more caring about children. All you have to do is read the newspapers.
I’m treading in dangerous waters for a protestant, but I think the original decision to oppose contraception demonstrated piercing foresight and was right on the money.
Believing it’s ok to block existence leads to the belief that all decisions about existence belong to humans and are able adequately to be handled by humans.
That is a destructive slippery slope.