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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 13:11:45 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1992Nov19.052510.5347@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
- >>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 consistant with sex being sinful if not aimed at procreation?"
- =
- = Michael smiles and shrugs. "Search me. As noted in another
- =article, I can't understand how they reconcile Natural Family Planning
- =(i.e. timing intercourse to avoid fertile periods) with their primary
- =stance, which seems an even greater problem. As for sex after
- =menopause, I suspect that it is discouraged, at least if anyone asks,
- =but I'll grant I haven't seen any big campaigns against it either.
-
- Why should it be discouraged? There's precedent for it in the Bible, isn't
- there? I'd've thought that the story of Abraham would be considered sufficient
- reason to permit it.
-