RE: Worldwide Decline in Birth Rates
November 9, 2018 at 6:20 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2018 at 6:25 am by Fake Messiah.)
Yeah, Pope is against low birth rates and contraception because Catholicism and Christianity are threatened by low birthrates. That is why many of the Christian religions are so focused on the question of when life begins. Abortion and birth control limit the potential hosts to be infested by the religion virus. Catholicism thrives in a sex-negative environment. Protestants also create a sex-negative environment. Islam is among the most sex-negative religions. Sex-negative religions seek to control all aspects of sexuality; from masturbation to the role of women; from conception to sexual pleasure. The measure of sex negativity is the degree of sanction for violation.
Can you imagine the Catholic religion as sex-positive? Could you imagine Pope Francis & Benedict, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Billy Graham, etc., carrying a sex-positive message of openness, sex as pleasure to be enjoyed to please yourself and your partner or partners as long as it is consensual and safe? I don’t think you will hear those sermons soon.
And yes, birth rates are on decline for an average married woman in 17th century America gave birth to 13 children.
Can you imagine the Catholic religion as sex-positive? Could you imagine Pope Francis & Benedict, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Billy Graham, etc., carrying a sex-positive message of openness, sex as pleasure to be enjoyed to please yourself and your partner or partners as long as it is consensual and safe? I don’t think you will hear those sermons soon.
And yes, birth rates are on decline for an average married woman in 17th century America gave birth to 13 children.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
