Piss Poor Papacy Policy

[Alex Bragi]

Alex the other reason they wont support birth control is because that would put an end to their best recruiting method. The more children catholics have the more catholics there will be in the world.

A good point.

Alex, you really come up with some great thought provoking posts. I happen to be Catholic but I do not blindly follow a lot the Church teaches, I know hypocritical but!!! Because of some of my beliefs they no longer ask me to be on the Church council, which truly is fine with me.

Thank you, and thank you for not taking offense, as this is certainly not aimed at Catholics per se. Some of my best friends are Catholics, and like you, they choose not to rigidly follow Vatican authority that seems, quite frankly, to be out of touch with many of it's followers.

I think the Church should stay out of the bedroom and I have other opinions that are contrary to its teachings but I'll stop here. Great thread, thanks.

Congratulations, Warbaby1943, you've just become responsible for my next thread. I hope you will enjoy that one too.

I think, 'the point' is that the catholic church is against the idea of having sex for any other reason than to have kids, or start a family.

Yes, that's true, but then why does the Vatican condone the "Rhythm" method?

Jack—This the longest and most comprehensive response I've even had to a thread I've started. Thank you for taking the time and trouble to post it.

You've quoted statistics regarding the rate of growth for Christians verses Moslems. You may disagree, but I feel it's just too easy to fudge the numbers. I mean are we including crypo-christian and professing Christians? Affiliated Christans? Marginal Christians? To be honest I don’t know much about Moslems, but I do know that Christians seem to splinter off in to numerous groups and levels of devotion, so I'm not really sure what would be accurate figures simply because there are too many variables.

The information supplied by University of California, Berkeley & Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy is certainly interesting reading, and I'm certainly not about to argue with the facts, however, I feel it's simply ridiculous to condone creating more of the same when there's a solution.

I've read the remainder of your response and found it well researched and interesting. Again thank you for posting it.