(August 5, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Javaman Wrote:(August 5, 2015 at 6:18 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: It is not my job to speculate on whether or not you or anyone else will go to Hell.
Well then, what does your Church teach? You seem to be rather persnickety about what it does or doesn't say on certain issues. Why not clarify for us all?
Will I suffer the same punishment in the afterlife as rapist because I masturbated into a test tube, thereby circumventing the unitive process in producing my two children?
What is the official Church doctrine on this issue? There's no need to speculate... simply tell me what your church has to say on the issue.
1. The Church teaches that IVF is not moral.
2. I don't know. Just because something is not moral, does not mean the person who did it will go to Hell. There are many many factors that go along with it, and it is not my place to speculate. That's God's job.
3. "Techniques involving only the married couple (homologous artificial insemination and fertilization) are perhaps less reprehensible, yet remain morally unacceptable. They dissociate the sexual act from the procreative act. The act which brings the child into existence is no longer an act by which two persons give themselves to one another, but one that "entrusts the life and identity of the embryo into the power of doctors and biologists and establishes the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person." -CCC
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
