This is the Religion Forum.
The issue IS birth control on THIS thread.
Sooner or later, modern man is going to admit to himself the Church was right all along on birth control, as were ALL the Christian denominations, Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic together, until 1930.
And when modern man does admit to himself the Church was right all along on birth control, he will also realize it really was about birth control all along, not “freedom,” because universal contraception is not “freedom” but licentiousness.
“...the Church was right all along on birth control.”
Maybe I shouldn’t quibble. But we were told to go forth and multiply by God in Genesis. That said, good for the Catholic Church for not ignoring the obvious interpretation of Scripture in this regard, when applied to birth control. They have taken a lot of heat in that regard in recent years.
At bottom is a conflict of anthropologies. The Christian view of incarnated spirits vs, the other nation of man as an organic machine. But if human beings are to be understood only in terms of the laws of mechanics, then what makes man distinct from the rest of nature is ignored. Such a view does not even give the other species their due. The silly efforts to prove that the apes can be made to act like men ignores even what biology tells us: that many, many generations separate mankind from his biological ancestors. We should focus, rather, on how ancient is human history and how the ancient art of the cave painters and the marvelous temple found in the Kurdistan part of Turkey,six thousand years before the pyraminds, show that men equipped by the most primitive tools are capable of deeds that in many way match our own. Men have been men as we know them for 100,000 years. The implications of that are not taken into account.
Amen, Dr. As a Catholic father of five (so far). 1930 was the Council of Lambeth, Anglicans. The start of all protestant denominations fall into birth control.