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- From: pat@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick Louis Sugent)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <Bxy6pB.6KK@chinet.chi.il.us>
- References: <memo.756718@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1992Nov18.175125.12880@midway.uchicago.edu> <1ef16kINNobt@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:17:34 GMT
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- ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
- >Michael says:
- >
- >> "To be fair, they're hardly saying that people should go
- >>around having unprotected sex. Their line is that the main point of
- >>sex is procreation within a monogamous marriage, and that sex which is
- >>_not_ directed towards that is sinful.
- >
- >Abner blinks, looking startled. "Wait a minute ... If sex not directed
- >towards procreation is sinful, then does the Catholic Church officially
- >oppose sex after the wife hits menopause?" After considering a bit, Abner
- >is sure that he would have heard about any belief that silly. Still, that
- >means there must be a flaw in the logic chain somewhere. "If the Catholic
- >Church *doesn't* oppose sex after the woman hits menopause, how would they
- >make that consistent with sex being sinful if not aimed at procreation?"
- >
-
- "I'd be very interested if someone actually has the 'official' Church
- answer to this. I know that priests where I grew up actually subscribed
- to the theory that sex after the wife hits menopause is sinful. In fact,
- one priest taught this to a classroom of fifth grade students. Obviously,
- that created a great deal of trouble for my mother who was the teacher of
- the fifth grade students at the time."
-
- "I have since been told that this is
- not the official position of the Catholic Church and that the priests in
- question were 'free-lancing'. I'm really not sure which is true."
-
- "Even if it is the 'official' position of the Catholic Church, I'm
- pretty sure that most Catholics don't even know about it and certainly
- don't subscribe to that theory."
-
-
- Pat
-
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- --
- Patrick Sugent
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- pat@chinet.chi.il.us
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