I think they had a revelation, maybe from Joseph Smith.
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In 1908 the Bishops of the Anglican Communion meeting at the Lambeth Conference declared,
“The Conference records with alarm the growing practice of the artificial restriction of the family
and earnestly calls upon all Christian people to discountenance the use of all artificial means of
restriction as demoralising to character and hostile to national welfare.”
The Lambeth Conference of 1930 produced a new resolution, “Where there is a clearly felt
moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, complete abstinence is the primary and obvious
method.,”
but if there was morally sound reasoning for avoiding abstinence, “the Conference agrees that
other methods may be used, provided that this is done in the light of Christian principles.”
By the 1958 Lambeth Conference, contraception was an accepted part of life among most
Anglicans, and a resolution was passed to the effect that the responsibility for deciding upon
the number and frequency of children was laid by God upon the consciences of parents “in such
ways as are acceptable to husband and wife.”
The Anglicans present an excellent microcosm of what happened among Protestant churches
in the 1900s.
A constant Christian teaching was completely undone among Protestants in a mere thirty
years. This brings up an unsettling choice...either the Holy Spirit was not guiding Christians
before 1930 or Protestant Churches have been ignoring His guidance after 1960.
http://www.thinkchastity.com/aProtestantisx.html
protestants in the historical sense died 60, 70, 80 years after the reformation circa 1517 or so. no such a thing exists today. now they are called churches. each one has it’s own principles. They are still labeled as protestants because they are not a part of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. i don’t think there is a consensus of any thing between them. Baptist baptize. Methodists methodologize. Episcopalians episcopate. Reformed whatever reform. There is nothing uniform in whatever someone would construct today about protestant thot even in 1930.
Rather than focusing on why Protestants changed their position on birth control, maybe the larger question is why do Catholics IGNORE their church’s doctrine on birth control and even abortion?
I know a few people who need to see this. Thanks man. Put them contradicting, lawless, logic-less, crazies in their place.
Est enim ecclesia!
You know, it's obvious that you are chumming for hits on your blog with the provocative label of "Answering Protestants" as well as the history of your posting threads that are meant to stir up the Protestant vs. Catholic divide. Jim, in his generosity and in the interest of making Free Republic a site where religious as well as political views can be debated among Conservatives, allows this kind of thing to go on, and your peeps sure aren't shy about taking advantage of that generosity. It would just be nice if you could do a little historical search of the archives so you aren't starting up discussions that have already been beat to death. It's kinda boring.
1. In conservative Reformed circles, which is where I hang my hat, chemical contraception is frowned upon.
2. In my practice I see far more Roman Catholics seeking contraceptives than one would suspect, FWIW I don't write prescriptions for contraceptives.
3. The rhythm method is just another game Roman Catholics play to bend the rules in their favor.
Birth control within marriage is one of the very few subjects where all liberal Catholics and many conservative non-Catholic Christians will agree.
But if you search for ‘Evangelicals/Protestants/fundamentalist Christians against birth control within marriage’ you will find that the ones that don’t accept it are invariably very conservative in their political and cultural views about other things. I take it there is a growing group of non-Catholic Christians who are rejecting bc within marriage. The Amish have never accepted bc within marriage either, as well as some of the old order Mennonites, to my understanding.
On the other hand, try to find one member of any faith that is into things like abortion, ‘gay marriage,’ and female clergy that also thinks birth control within marriage shouldn’t be accepted. Seems to me there is a connection there.
Freegards
If you can’t feed them, don’t breed them. Even Catholic countries fund birth control because they would go broke otherwise.
Your religion has rules against contraception and abortion...But all Catholic baby killers are Catholics in good standing with your religion...Even its clergy...No doubt you have pro abortion cardinals...What happens when one of these cardinals becomes a pope???
But the bible says.....