Do not project your own refusal to change onto others. If this were the case, I would not be wasting my time on FR. I spend my time here because pro-life apologetics and Catholic/Christian apologetics works. It wins souls. That is my sole reason for being here, to win souls for Christ and win hearts and minds and bring them into the light of the Culture of Life.
Just last night one wonderful soul wrote me via Freepmail, asking how she could get off the pill, partly as a result of this thread and others like it, and relating to me her desire to grow deeper in her faith.
My wife and I used to use the pill.
I never took my faith seriously before 1991, yet I am fundamentally changed now from the person I was 10 years ago.
Souls are changing and being transformed all around you. Your refusal to see it or admit it is a self defense mechanism, for to open ones eyes to truth is to challenge one to change, repent, and believe.
For some it is easier to keep their eyes closed tight and their heart in a strong box removed from faith, and deny that others are indeed changing all around them.
---a reference to the Holocaust by Franz Stangl, Nazi commandant of extermination camps in Sobibor (March, 1942 -September, 1942) and Treblinka (September, 1942 - August, 1943).
Interviewed by Gitta Sereny in 1970, Stangl's comments later appeared in the book Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience (1983).