“Barrier” methods, though, such as spermicides, condoms, sponge, or the diaphragm, do NOT, or are not supposed to, allow the event of fertilization to even happen which does not carry the moral equivalence to the other kinds of BC...
NFP is a method SIMILAR to the “rhythm method” my parents used - but which often failed - and it predicts when a woman is fertile so that intercourse can be avoided during those times. They are telling couples intercourse is for bringing children into the world, yet advise couples they can have sex “safely” without pregnancy as long as they do it the “Church’s” approved way.”
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Were you baptized Catholic? Good thing the old rhythm method failed your parents, you wouldn’t be here brother.
God decides life not us boatbums, the reason Birth Control is a sin. Doesn’t matter the method. See why Reverend Mohler wrote what he did? He is convicted, troubled, he knows most all of Protestantism approves of Birth Control.
They have since 1930 but Protestants are waking up, they are seeing and Cafeteria Catholics too, the terrible fruit of Birth Control.
“NFP does NOT refer to the so-called “calendar rhythm method,” which was based on calendar calculations of a “normal” cycle. NFP, instead, based on direct observations of various signs that occur in a woman’s body (changes in the cervix, cervical mucus, and temperature) which tell her when ovulation occurs. These observations are relatively easy to make, take only a few minutes, and work even for irregular cycles. NFP is internationally known and practical and is extremely effective. The medical principles on which NFP rests are being used by more and more doctors for a wide range of purposes.”
As an interesting aside, I know a woman who helps couples who haven't been able to have children and want to.
The first thing she does is teach them NFP because she says it's the best way to get them used to being focused on the times when the woman is fertile. I was surprised by that a few years back when she was talking about it because I had no idea that NFP was as accurate as she said it is and at the time thought only Catholics even paid any attention to NFP.
Both Catholic and non-Catholic Christians need to wake up and realize how important children and numbers are in a democracy, especially in one where sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, teach so many people their morals and values. It may be a wonderful game of distraction for someone to play arguing that two million people from whatever group they disagree with are the reason elections are won or lost, but which group of Christians doesn't have at least two million fewer members than it would have had without the wholesale acceptance of contraception by Christians?
There are nearly twenty five million fewer black folks than the trends of the early seventies projected because those projections didn't factor in abortion and contraception. How many fewer Christians there are due to those same things has to at least equal that number and is probably a good bit higher. Remember, it's not just the fifty million fewer folks due to infants being murdered at abortion clinics by physical means, it's also the ones who were chemically murdered in the womb by a wink and a nod.