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by ChrisDC on March 17th, 2009
I'm not Catholic, so if I get this wrong, I apologize.
But as I understand it the idea is that sexual activity has one purpose, and one purpose only -- to create children. So having sex while employing birth control is seen as frustrating the basic purpose of the act.
I don't agree with this, by the way, but I like to understand the arguments of people who disagree with me.
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I believe you are right about the Pope's rationale, but I further agree that you're right, there is nothing in the Bible that justifies such a position.
by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on March 17th, 2009
I'm assuming that it goes back to the idea that pleasure simply for the sake of pleasure is indulgent and wrong.
I'm a Christian myself (Methodist), but there are enough things in the Bible that you can pretty much cherry pick a verse here and a verse there to justify what you want. So I kind of have a skeptical eye toward that, while remembering that one corollary of that is that no one should believe he's right all the time. :-)
by ChrisDC on March 17th, 2009
Well, you're certainly right about not believing you are right all the time. :)
by Jim in a Nautilus COAT on March 18th, 2009