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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150724.16076@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:07:24 GMT
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- [Discussion of the Catholic Church's stance on sex, and wonderment at its
- acceptance of Basal Body Temperature and similar enhancements of the Rhythm
- Method, not to mention wondering about sex after menopause]
-
- Alfvaen pokes his head into the conversation. "What I remember from the
- Catholic Marriage Course we had to take to get a Catholic wedding(my wife is
- Catholic, I'm somewhere between agnostic and deist), is that while what the
- Church wants is procreative sex within marriage, that >if< procreation isn't
- strictly wanted in its uncontrolled form, i.e. if family planning is desired,
- then you must use natural methods for it. Because, you see, since God made
- man and woman, any birth control methods in the human body are okay to use
- for contraception. One of them is the natural period of fertility of the
- woman. Another is--menopause. As long as you're not using any unnatural
- means of contraception, then sex is okay even if you don't intend procreation.
- Of course, abstinence is perfectly fine from their point of view too.
-
- "How they reconcile this, I'm not sure. I think they're just trying to
- slowly shift into a more reasonable stance, since not everyone wants families
- of twelve these days. And most people want sex.
-
- "Another interesting thing I said concerned right vs. wrong. Basically, they
- said that the Church couldn't tell you what was right or wrong--you had to
- decide that for yourself. All the Church could tell you was what was a sin and
- what wasn't. So they didn't say that using unnatural birth control was wrong,
- or sex outside of marriage. They just said that it was a sin. My wife uses
- the Pill anyway..."
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Looking for "October's Baby")
- "Lucille was secretly thrilled when Norman sucked her toaster."
- ---B. Kliban
- Current Album--The Adventures
- Current Read--Karen Wehrstein:Lion's Heart
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