Why does the catholic church refuse to allow contraception?
Africa has been the biggest area of new recruits to the catholic church, around 50% have aids which could be prevented using condoms yet the pope will still not allow it. Why would god allow this or want this?
Because they think that there’s a magical being living in the sky who might want to give people a baby, whether or not they’re starving or have AIDS, and they think that we shouldn’t interfere with that magical being’s decision to give a person a baby. (Even if that baby is going to die of starvation or AIDS in six months.)
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February 14 2010 12:26 pm | Catholic
Kiki-la - Is THE Athetit on 14 Feb 2010 at 5:49 pm #
Procreation for stats.
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The Apostle on 14 Feb 2010 at 6:24 pm #
I am not Catholic, but have you ever heard of abstinence……You know, just dont do it……>
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Buddha on 14 Feb 2010 at 7:01 pm #
Just more religious dogma.
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Chloe on 14 Feb 2010 at 7:11 pm #
Because they don’t like any sexual intercourse to be made without the possibility of life
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Matthew on 14 Feb 2010 at 7:35 pm #
Because they want more members. More members equals more offerings.
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Catherine E on 14 Feb 2010 at 7:52 pm #
Because they think that there’s a magical being living in the sky who might want to give people a baby, whether or not they’re starving or have AIDS, and they think that we shouldn’t interfere with that magical being’s decision to give a person a baby. (Even if that baby is going to die of starvation or AIDS in six months.)
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God's hi†man on 14 Feb 2010 at 8:36 pm #
As usual blame God for man’s decisions. If people stop shagging around perhaps condoms would not be necessary. Catholics probably assume you are married and faithful to your partner.
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Shaman Val on 14 Feb 2010 at 8:57 pm #
The Pope told them Condoms spreads Aids, If you are wondering why 50% of them have it. Ignore the advice from stupid people, that’s my motto. Declaring your self infallible is a not a sign of intelligence, it is a sign of arrogance.
Practicing Shaman… quantum physics rocks
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Bilge Rat on 14 Feb 2010 at 9:34 pm #
Search YouTube for Monty Python’s ‘Every Sperm is Sacred’ song. That explains things about as well as the Catholic Church does.
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Miss Information on 14 Feb 2010 at 10:09 pm #
because,
Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is great
If a sperm gets wasted
God gets quite irate
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Brandon ♥s Baby Isaac on 14 Feb 2010 at 10:45 pm #
They need more Catholic minions. Actually The Pope decided to change the law of the Bible and make a new one saying If one person in the couple has AIDS they may use a condom. Not HIV though.
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numbnuts222 on 14 Feb 2010 at 11:01 pm #
It was a response to the sexual revolution of the 60’s, female contraceptives liberating women’s control over their own sexuality. The Pope thought that it would lead to promiscuity and lots of fun sin to be had by all, so all forms of contraceptives were banned.
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Ian on 14 Feb 2010 at 11:39 pm #
What has god to do with the catholics?
Catholicism was and is a political tool.
It was invented by Emperor Constantine.
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smrtrthnu on 15 Feb 2010 at 12:09 am #
I have been hearing that 50% of Africa has AIDS for about 15 years now.
Like the perpetual rain forest that should have been wiped out by now based on claims of the rate of decline.
The Church believes that sex is sacred and not some convenience. That disease exists is known and the Church is not suggesting that people have unprotected sex. Also the Church is not even suggesting that married couple where one has AIDS and the other does not should not use some kind of protection but condoms are not 100% anyways and people always make condoms the solution to the problem of people insisting on having premarital sex. their other fallback position is abortion which kills far more than AIDS.
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Paul on 15 Feb 2010 at 12:14 am #
Yes condoms could prevent the spread of AIDS but you know what would work better? Self control!
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Charlie on 15 Feb 2010 at 12:24 am #
Some people forget that AIDS is not only spread sexually. Any bodily fluids can transmit the virus if it is inside a host. If not the virus will live for up to 24 hrs in right conditions.
If you get aids infected bodily fluids. Saliva, blood, urine, phlegm etc.
Then you are likely to catch AIDS. A virgin could have AIDS.
Reliable contraception most likely did not exist when the bible was written so it’s one of those things that is not covered.
If fundamentalists really believe in heaven and hell, then why do they try to force their beliefs on to others in this life? While letting hate into their heart.
Get a life damn fundamentalists. I believe god will judge us when we die. Do not think yourself his equal.
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denise t on 15 Feb 2010 at 12:40 am #
morals
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alan h on 15 Feb 2010 at 1:26 am #
A misunderstanding of a verse about Onan which was really about inheritance rights.
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Daver on 15 Feb 2010 at 1:45 am #
CONTRACEPTION – Deliberate interference with marital intercourse in order to prevent conception. It is the performance of the marriage act with the positive frustration of conception. Also called conjugal onanism, from the sin of Onan, referred to in the Bible (Genesis 38:8-10); Neo-Malthusianism from the name of the English sociologist Malthus (1766-1834); it is popularly termed birth control, where those concerned with high birthrates have come to equate contraception with population control.
The Catholic Church has forbidden contraception from earliest times, and the number of papal statements dealing with the subject indicates the Church’s constant tradition. In modern times the most significant document was Humanae Vitae in 1968 by Paul VI. After referring to the long history of the Church’s teaching, he declared that the "direct interruption of the generative process already begun," even though done for therapeutic reasons, is to be "absolutely excluded as a licit means of regulating birth." Equally to be excluded is direct sterilization for contraceptive reasons. "Similarly excluded is every action that, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, purposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" (Humanae Vitae, II, 14).
Few aspects of Christian morality in modern times have given rise to more difficulties of conscience than the Catholic doctrine on contraception. This was reflected in Paul’s admission, shortly after Humanae Vitae: "How many times we have trembled before the alternatives of an easy condescension to current opinions."
One of the results of the Church’s teaching on contraception has been to emphasize her right to teach the faithful, even to binding them gravely in conscience, in matters that pertain to the natural law. Yet the basic motivation offered to married people to live up to this difficult teaching is highly supernatural, namely the prospect of loving one another in such a way that they will share the fruits of their affection with another person whom their mutual love will bring into being.
CONTRACEPTIVE CULTURE – A society in which contraception is the accepted way of preventing the conception of unwanted offspring.
CONTRACEPTIVE INTERCOURSE – Sexual intercourse in which some physical or chemical means is used to prevent conception. Such intercourse does not consummate the sacrament of marriage.
CONTRACEPTIVE STERILIZATION – Depriving the body of its generative powers in order to prevent the conception or fetal development of undesired offspring, for the satisfaction of a person’s wishes and/or the relief of an economic or social need. Its morality falls under the same category as contraception. It is forbidden by the natural law.
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lazybones on 15 Feb 2010 at 1:51 am #
The word contraception itself holds the answer to why the RCC is against it.
Contra = against
(con)ception = the beginning of life.
The act of sex must always remain open to the procreation of life. Procreation is the primary function of sex; pleasure is only the icing on the cake.
Condoms will reduce the likelihood of passing on the virus through intercourse, but are you telling me that you’d sleep with a girl who is HIV+ and just "wear a johnny"?
What a lot of the papers fail to report, is that a lot of men refuse to wear condoms; people don’t know that they have AIDS; some witch doctors and shamans "prescribe" having sex with virgins as a method of healing the infection. The truth of the situation is very different to what mainstream media chooses to relay.
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imacatholic2 on 15 Feb 2010 at 2:38 am #
The experts say:
Last year, Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, wrote: "In every African country in which HIV infections declined, this decline has been associated with a decrease in the proportion of men and women reporting more than one sex partner over the course of a year—which is exactly what fidelity programs promote."
And: "Many countries that have not seen declines in HIV have seen increases in condom use, but in every country worldwide in which HIV has declined there have been increases in levels of faithfulness and usually abstinence as well." http://www.harvardaidsprp.org/index.html
Sam L. Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee wrote: The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002. Telling men and women to keep sex sacred — to save sex for marriage and then remain faithful — is telling them to love one another deeply with their whole hearts. Most HIV infections in Africa are spread by sex outside of marriage: casual sex and infidelity. The solution is faithful love. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901477.html?wpisrc=newsletter
See also:
+ The Washinton Post, "The Pope May be Right", March 29, 2009: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702825.html
+ Science, "Reassessing HIV Prevention", May 9, 2008: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/320/5877/749?ck=nck
The Catholic Church has never asked unmarried people to have unprotected sex. Neither has she asked married couples with diseases to have unprotected sex.
Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:
1. Single people should be celibate.
2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).
3. Married couples should welcome God’s gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control is against the will of God.
If the world is going to ignore teachings about chastity (1 & 2), then why is the world so upset about teaching artificial birth control (3)?
People who are already ignoring the more important teachings about chastity (1 and 2) should have no problem ignoring the less important teaching of artificial birth control (3).
Even if a person infected with AIDS was to use a condom to help protect his or her spouse, condoms are not 100% effective (read the box) and the spouse may be infected and die anyway. A person who truly loves their spouse would not endanger them in this way.
In regards to sex outside of marriage, the Church makes it a practice not to tell people how to sin. With or without a condom:
• Fornication is still fornication
• Adultery is still adultery
• Rape is still rape
With love in Christ.
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answer4you on 15 Feb 2010 at 2:48 am #
Contraception is the preventing of what GOD has planned, which is the possibility for creation of life. By placing a barrier there, one is placing their desires/needs above GOD’s will.
However, there is birth control in the form of NFP, or better known as Natural Family Planning. There is nothing wrong with planning around fertility, but there is an inherent problem when one puts in place a physical or chemical barrier which prevents GOD’s work from occurring.
Whether an area/region has a high concentration of AIDs or not, is not the matter at hand. Contraception is the preventing of pregnancy, not to prevent spread of disease. Birth control pills are a form of contraception, and has nothing to do with preventing AIDs. As such, your point and attempt to smear the Catholic Church is one that lacks substance.
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pepgurli on 15 Feb 2010 at 3:26 am #
Contraception is not to be used because it is humans playing God. The whole purpose of contaception is to prevent the possibility of a new life being born. Thats why its not ok it has nothing to do with not wanting to prevent aids
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