“For a church with such er.... *interesting* views on marriage, sex, and reproduction, they sure are inordinately obsessed with others personal lives, aren’t they? And this isn’t the first time this have been displayed.
FWIW, did I see anywhere in the NT that one’s view on contraception played a role in their salvation?”
I’m going to interpret this as a yes to my question. Thanks metmom. Another confirmation.
See, this is what I think Protestants don’t get. You are not your own. You do not have the right to do with your body as you wish, because your body does not belong to you. It belongs to Christ.
Assume away. You know what is said about people who assume stuff.
What a fail.... The "if you don't answer, you mean *yes*" is such a LAME argument.
Catholics pull that one on Evangelicals constantly and it's meaningless because we aren't going to play any games and let Catholics pigeonhole us.
My silence on any *gotcha* question is nothing more than refusing to be manipulated and judged.
It reveals nothing about my opinion on any question asked.
God's command to mankind was to be fruitful and multiply, the one command that mankind has generally not disobeyed.
Now tell me, if this is God's will for us, then why does the Roman Catholic Church demand celibacy from its priests and nuns?
How can it hypocritically condemn mechanical contraception and not Natural Family Planning, which is simply a different way of preventing conception?
And what about celibacy for priests? Is that not preventing conception by the more extreme measure of denying them sex by demanding a vow of celibacy?