Code Toad, I like you and I usually find your comments are sensible, or at least plausible.
Really, I do.
However, that was so ... misinformed. But open-minded as you are, I am confident you are open to better information.
(1) Nobody has ever said, ever, that Catholic married couples have to have as many babies as they are physically able to have. Never.
(2) As for "birth control", a limited periodic abstinence (approx 1 week of every month), mutually agreed, is the only method which is
The evidence of each of these claims has been published many times RIGHT HERE ON FREE REPUBLIC (LINK)
It's worth a click.
The constant drumbeat by some in all religions concerning birth control can only give the conclusion that any and all attempts to have a child must be taken is what leads my conclusion.
Your #1, not true. I’ve heard time and time again throughout my life that as many babies as possible is desired.
Your #2, true, but I could care less what someone else’s religious or personal views may be. Their opinions are not superior to mine or anyone else’s.
This religious view that sex is for only making babies has caused far too much social disorder and unhappiness. It brings about the view that the naked body is disgusting. Yes, I know women who have said they have never seen their ultra religious husbands naked. I had one fellow at work claim women showing their ankles were “just whores”.
People are failing to allow sexual desire to be what it is, and, instead, they try to make rules and judgments around it that are counter productive to the human race reproducing, much less enjoying their bodies.