Posted on 08/09/2002 11:40:46 AM PDT by gubamyster
I hope Christians from all denominations, both Catholic and Protestant, sincerely look at their lives and question their dependence on contraception as their "savior". Because that is what artificial contraception has become to far too many people, and it is damaging them both physically, and emotionally.
Well thought out, logical and to the point. Man, are you in for it.
The Torodes write that "Respect for the one-flesh mystery of marriage gives us serious qualms about the use of contraception. To invoke St. Paul's analogy, would Christ ever withhold any part of himself from the Church, or sterilize his love?" As they understand it, "anything less than a true one-flesh union fails to represent the completely self-giving love of Christ for the Church. This is why we believe that when a husband and wife have serious reasons to avoid pregnancy, it's better to abstain for a time than to diminish the meaning and mystery of sex."F.Y.I.
I think you forgot a "not" in there somewhere, because the sentence makes no sense as written.
But this is not done. Granted, the couple may strive to avoid having sex during fertile periods but -- if their conjugal relations are free of contraceptive implements or abortifacient chemicals -- there is always the potential for life which will be welcomed by the couple who recognize conception as a matter of God's will making their co-creative ability fruitful.
Best laid plans and all.
As a rule, nature is very good about spacing pregnancies ... where breastfeeding and other natural aspects of birth and childrearing are practiced. I see nothing wrong with abstinence as a further help to allowing parents to give each child his full measure of attention upon birth.
Then it's the fact that conception might still potentially occur that renders NFP acceptable? The fact that the possibility of conception still exists?
There's also the potential for life if the condom fails. Is there some difference between the failure of birth control and failure of NPF?
No flame intended, just curious.
Anal sex -- aside from its obvious implications for the normalizing of homosexuality among heteros as pushed by pornographers -- has nothing whatsoever to do with human sexuality.
The disordered desire for anal penetration by the penis is neither procreative nor unitive (in the sense that man is made for woman and vice versa as evidenced by the sexual organs).
In fact, it has little, if anything to do with sex and far more to do with domination and violence.
It is not surprising in the least that pornographers today find a ready audience for anal sex among men who are emasculated in public by women and wish domination in private (or who view women in some Henry Miller Sadean fashion whereby they're nothing but a collection of orifices for semen affording varying degrees of physical gratification).
Besides, with the homosexual as "Ideal Citizen", it's to the State's benefit as well to condition heteros not only to homosexual practices of "sex" but also homosexual rights to "procreate" via the artificial reproduction practices which provide President Bush the "excess" human lives on which his hopeful research hinges.
I realize you probably meant this in jest but it's important you realize how critical is our ability to think clearly on this issue rather than serve as useful idiots to help propel the Agenda.
Absolutely. Abstinence.
Abstinence by its very nature is an act of Self-Governance that is critical to the human psyche and evidences absolutely the uniquely human ability to foresee consequences and govern one's passions.
Naturally, in addition to the real "benefits" they presume to achieve through population control, the most critical win for the state where birth control and licentiousness are concerned is the unleashing of Passions by which folks can be rendered absolutely predicatable ... masses operating on the lowest common denominator that is animal urges.
There is a method to the madness, then, of a State that upholds "faked" cyber child sex as "Free Speech" on the one hand yet excuses all sorts of invasions of privacy and ursupations of civil liberties on the other on the basis that some individuals can't properly "manage" their addictions to child porn and act on same.
Bottom line: the use of contraceptives treats the human being as a Thing and conditions a person to manipulation. It disrupts the natural order whereby man has dominion over creation and all creatures by applying that dominion to himself in lieu of the Restraint which is the better part of his Natural Liberty.
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