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I would like to see a study in which 100 fertile couples start January 1st using NFP. Then count how many are pregnant by December 31st. I would bet the percentage would be quite high. And thank God for that! The one thing that I actually like about NFP is that it doesn't work, thus allowing more babies to be born into the world.

See my post 21.

God has His reasons for programming the human physiology so that NFP DOES work, just as this British Medical Journal article proves.

I've seen those reasons in what is, in Mother Teresa's opinion, the "poorest place on earth," the slums of Port Au Prince, Haiti. When the child you conceive is guaranteed to die of disease or starvation, 1) you have a grave reason for recourse to NFP, and 2) a just God would make sure His children had an effective alternative for these grave periods when He also clearly teaches that recourse to artificial methods are intrinsically evil. I've seen a baby dying before my eyes from dehydration from dysentery. I never want to see it again. And I bristle at those who insist a Just God would not provide a reliable natural and knowable means of delaying or spacing pregnancy so that each conceived child has a better chance to live.

And I bristle at those who insist a Just God would not provide a reliable natural and knowable means of delaying or spacing pregnancy so that each conceived child has a better chance to live.

So God was not just until the sympto-thermal method appeared on the scene? His justice was lacking until it was completed by this missing piece of the puzzle? And the billions of humans who lived before the Knaus and Ogino were born, they suffered under God's injustice? Perhaps Onan also should complain against God's injustice, he wouldn't have needed to spill his seed if only Tamar had owned a basal body thermometer?

You get credit at least for an entirely new view of theodicy.

"And I bristle at those who insist a Just God would not provide a reliable natural and knowable means of delaying or spacing pregnancy so that each conceived child has a better chance to live."

I have trouble with this comment. Innocent life is lost every day and many born will not get a "better" chance than they could have. God's Plan is not entirely subject to human analysis, He is Infinite, we are less than dust motes. I think your experience with death by dysentery (a horrid death) may have colored your view of Divine Providence.