Posted on 12/20/2015 4:51:09 PM PST by ReformationFan
December 18, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – One of the most influential evangelical Christian leaders in the United States says the sexual revolution began with the widespread availability of birth control.
Dr. Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, made the remarks Saturday on David Wheaton's "The Christian Worldview" radio show.
“We are clearly at a very important turning point, but you have to go back to the early twentieth century when sexual revolutionaries largely funded an effort to separate sex and procreation, and that was birth control," Dr. Mohler said.
"Most Christians seem to think today that birth control was just something that came along as something of a scientific or medical development," Mohler said. "They fail to see that it was driven by moral revolutionaries who knew that you couldn’t have a moral revolution, you especially couldn’t have a sexual revolution, unless you could separate sex and babies.â€
In recent years, evangelical Christians and observers in general have taught the harms inflicted by birth control - from the potential abortifacient properties of some forms of contraception to the way it has unleashed promiscuity and inhibited true intimacy. Author Mary Eberstadt, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told LifeSiteNews that when she wrote her 2012 book on contemporary sexual mores and their consequences, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, "I was just blown away by" the accuracy of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae. She said the subsequent rise of commitment-free sex destroyed marriages, spread diseases, and led to the nation's skyrocketing rate of illegitimate births.
Dr. Mohler, who released the new book We Cannot be Silent in October, said the second major development that undermined the family was the no-fault divorce "revolution."
In the six year period between 1977 and 1983, 39 states passed laws allowing either party to end a marriage for any reason, or no reason.
"That was massive," he said. "Evangelical Christians just didn't recognize it for what it was."
"You can't have anything like same-sex 'marriage' until you redefine marriage, eliminating it as a lifelong covenant," he said.
Degrading marriage led to a "massive spike in cohabitation among heterosexuals."
“One kind of sexual misbehavior leads to the rationalization of another," he said. "Thus, we couldn’t have the Obergefell decision that came this June, we couldn’t have the legalization of same-sex 'marriage,' if there hadn’t been a lot of sexual revolution before we got there.â€
Dr. Mohler went on to answer a question he is frequently asked: Whether faithful Christians should attend the same-sex "wedding" ceremony of a friend or relative.
"Absolutely not, because to participate in a same-sex 'wedding' in any way is uniquely to give an affirmation of it," he said.
While he encouraged faithful Christians to "establish a relationship" with homosexuals in order "to share the Gospel," he said that "going to a [same-sex] 'wedding' is the one thing we can’t do.â€
Thanks.
Birth control is birth control whether it's artificial or "natural".
Being natural doesn't make it ok if the premise is that birth control is wrong.
Yep. It was the pill. We haven't finished paying for it yet.
Gotcha
By “artificial” I’m talking about anything other than “rhythm” or abstinence.
Abstinence is birth control.
have a nice day
PS By the by, NFP (some call it, Not For Protestants) is more effective than the pill and is in essence the same method people having difficult conceiving a child use only in reverse.
We have fallen far as a society as artificial contraception, while controversial has not been a political issue in a couple generations. For that matter, leading into the 2016 Election, Abortion is hardly mentioned by the presidential candidates.
The reality is that both artificial contraception and abortion are both destroying our society and both should be issues in 2016.
So then, when a woman is pregnant, then sex should stop too, because then it's only for fun. That would weaken the marriage bond then.
And of course, once a woman is past her fertile time in her cycle, then there should be no sex, because since she can't get pregnant, then the sex is just for fun.
And when a woman is past menopause, then there's no chance for conception at all and sex becomes only for the fun. Who ever would have thought that that would weaken the marriage bond (besides a Catholic I suppose). In that case, they'd better stop having sex, right, since if they continue just for the fun of it, it'll weaken the marriage bond.
Imagine that. Married couples having sex just for fun. Oh, the HORROR....
Birth control is birth control, whether it’s *artificial* or *natural*.
If it’s the birth control itself that’s inherently evil, then it’s evil no matter HOW it’s practiced, *natural* or not.
If birth control is inherently wrong, then it’s wrong whether it’s natural or artificial.
If the goal is to prevent conception, then whether it’s rhythm or abstinence, then it’s birth control and hence as wrong as using a barrier method.
Using church approved birth control doesn’t make it right if birth control itself is wrong.
Excellent point.
Maybe it is time we reexamine the nation’s use of contraception.
It's been shown that exclusively breast feeding an infant is a deterrent to pregnancy. Is that "birth control" to you?
Deterrent, maybe.
Prevent it? No.
Is that "birth control" to you?
Breast feeding is *feeding the baby*. Whatever effect it has on a woman's ability to conceive is secondary.
Your question is just downright stupid.
You must be a man.
That's a response a feminist would give. Can I be against abortion as "a man" or is that also prohibited?
Your question didn’t deserve a better answer.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Psalm 127:3-5Â
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is theman that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Breastfeeding is God’s design not any kind of “deterrant”. That’s as absurd as saying that conception is birth control because you can’t get pregnant while you’re pregnant.
Sex is certainly pure yet fleeting Fun. But procreation is eternally and exponentially more significant. Sex could always celebrate procreation. Bible history proves that you never know!
If someone thinks they are, then they may as well just go whole hog and adopt "my sins were all in the future when Christ died for them so they're all forgiven before I even commit them" theology and do what they damn well because having said the magic word they never have to worry about anything again.
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