Lol, okay old, rich white guy!

(December 22, 2017 at 12:41 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(December 22, 2017 at 10:44 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: About 4 times a week

Wipe that avatar smile off your screen; if it's not for procreation, then you're in mortal sin!

Give her a break...
A gal also needs to practice!

(December 22, 2017 at 8:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: As for Catholic people believing different things, I mean, sure... many do. But official Catholic teaching is laid out all very clearly in the CCC. If someone believes something different (like that sex is a sin unless yoire trying to make babies) that's their own rules, not official church teaching. Ive never known anyone who thinks that, but I dont doubt that they exist in the fringes.

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Francis has abandoned the Catechism:

Quote:1650 Today there are numerous Catholics in many countries who have recourse to civil divorce and contract new civil unions. In fidelity to the words of Jesus Christ - "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery" 160 the Church maintains that a new union cannot be recognized as valid, if the first marriage was. If the divorced are remarried civilly, they find themselves in a situation that objectively contravenes God's law. Consequently, they cannot receive Eucharistic communion as long as this situation persists. For the same reason, they cannot exercise certain ecclesial responsibilities. Reconciliation through the sacrament of Penance can be granted only to those who have repented for having violated the sign of the covenant and of fidelity to Christ, and who are committed to living in complete continence.

Quote:1665 The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion. They will lead Christian lives especially by educating their children in the faith.

Ooops.

(December 22, 2017 at 8:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(December 22, 2017 at 3:57 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Most Catholics just use regular birth control, of course. At the same rate as the rest of the population. https://thinkprogress.org/birth-control-...-it-anyway

I was raised Catholic in a very conservative perish, and our CCD teacher (who was 60 and an annunciated virgin to Christ) absolutely taught us that sex was for procreation only. I'm not sure that timed abstinence was ever brought up, but if you weren't trying to make more Catholics, it was a no go. She also taught us Mary and Joseph remained virgins their whole marriage. Lolzwat?

Talk about backwards sex ed. Who needs elderly virgins telling you when to fuck? So while most Catholics don't follow what the Church is preaching, Conservative Catholics definitely belive that. Timed abstinence, I had religious Catholic neighbors in College, they told me they used that. They also were in their 20s and had 5 kids. They were exactly religious conservatives either.

Most people are Atheist forums talk as though the Church is something with uniform beliefs, but it's a massive number of people, and there are branches of Catholicism that disagree with each other, on a wider scale and down to individual parishes. So I sort of take issue with it when people say that Catholics do or say this. Or when you sometimes do the same thing. Most Catholics just use birth control, condoms and the pill and 84 % have no moral objection to birth control. The bunch of creepy old virgins at the head of the Vatican can say what they want, but people are going to use birth control.

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Lol, Min gets the biggest Tax cut of atheist forums! 1%er !!!

My bold.

Sounds like your CCD teacher was making up her own rules then, because thats just not true at all. NFP (natural family planning/timed abstinence) is huge in the Church for couples who want to avoid pregnancy. It was actually part of our mandatory pre marriage prep.

As for Catholic people believing different things, I mean, sure... many do. But official Catholic teaching is laid out all very clearly in the CCC. If someone believes something different (like that sex is a sin unless yoire trying to make babies) that's their own rules, not official church teaching. Ive never known anyone who thinks that, but I dont doubt that they exist in the fringes.

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They do exist. Because that is literally what i was taught as a Catholic. It could be she was going off her own curriculum, she had a lot of wacky beliefs, but she existed and taught every catholic child in my parish that. Its not an uncommon belief at all amoung conservative Catholics. It could be that your parish is just more liberal, I don't really know. We were only one step from having a latin mass. So these beliefs definitely exist. Thw vatican, believe it or not, doesn't magically control every minutia of every parish. I know, because its what I wad taught. Then later learned about the natural family planning, which as I said, couple with 5 children told me.

But the point is, as an atheist now examining this it all just seems so silly. Irregardless of whether its strict about sex for procreation or not. This is a sexual system crafted by elderly virgins. And in hindsight of course its going to be ridiculous. I would never let elderly virgins tell me when to fuck. Natural pregnancy cycle or not. Ill just use birth control and fuck when I want to.

Luckily most Catholics agree with me, and morally approve and use birth control at the same rate as the rest of the population. So it really actually doesn't matter in the slightest what the Vatican says, not even to Catholics.

I meant that I hope your husband’s never reacted to “not in the mood” by doing anything worse than begging you until you say “okay.” Hopefully, he’s never resorted to physical force on you (nor you him).

(December 22, 2017 at 12:40 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:

(December 22, 2017 at 10:44 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: About 4 times a week

Your husband is a lucky man.

That's about a months worth for me.

At least you all are getting some. I do believe I qualify to be a virgin again since I haven't had any in nearly two years.