Why is birth control so controversial to SOME religious people?

[Trackdayguy]

Where in the Bible do you read "Sex is only intended for procreation"? Or even "Thou shalt not masturbate"? And if the sex drive is implanted in us to make us breed, aren't the celebrate religious defying their God?

Sadly Christianity & religion has demonized sex, so it has become dirty and sinful. Of course the fundamentalist christian will tell you that there's noting wrong with sex as long as its in the context of monogamy. Sadly their argument is rejected as nonsense, as history has proven we aren't monogamous by nature.

For me as a 65 year old in a Poly relationship I think sex is amazing particularly with 2 women at the same time.

 

[Glaurung]

Where in the Bible do you read "Sex is only intended for procreation"? Or even "Thou shalt not masturbate"?

One should not expect to find every point of the moral law explicitly elucidated in the Biblical texts. There is also the natural law, known though reason, as well as the perennial teachings of the Church. And even if we were to limit ourselves to the Bible the immorality of masturbation is reasonably inferred given what is said in the Biblical texts. Matthew 5:28 comes to mind immediately. (And that's just off the top of my head).

As for contraception you misunderstand.

The Catholic position is not that sex exists only for procreation but that the potential for procreation is morally inseparable from the sexual act. A couple need not intend to procreate with every sexual act, only that it is morally illegitimate to deliberately sever that potential from any given sexual act.

And if the sex drive is implanted in us to make us breed, aren't the celebrate religious defying their God?

Being open to children is part and parcel of marriage, but there is no obligation to marriage. It is not that everyone must marry and have children, but that if one does choose the married state then as far as the teachings of the Catholic Church are concerned one has by that fact alone accepted the potential for children.

 

[Cooky]

Why, because sex & sexual pleasure has been shamed, heaven forbid that we should enjoy it. These religious fruit cakes that promote this seem to have forgotten that it was God who created sex for pleasure and populating the earth.

Pro-Lifers Declare "Ejaculation Is Murder: Every Sperm Cell Is A Life" - Straight Stoned

“God made men’s semen for a purpose, and you can just “waste” that purpose by gratifying yourself whenever you want to. Every time you do, you are literally killing thousands of babies!"

 

[Trackdayguy]

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Pro-Lifers Declare "Ejaculation Is Murder: Every Sperm Cell Is A Life" - Straight Stoned

“God made men’s semen for a purpose, and you can just “waste” that purpose by gratifying yourself whenever you want to. Every time you do, you are literally killing thousands of babies!"

Really, you believe that....

 

[Cooky]

Really, you believe that....

No...

 

[Trackdayguy]

No...

Glad to hear, I thought for moment another one of our members had gone off the rails

 

[Cooky]

Glad to hear, I thought for moment another one of our members had gone off the rails

Sorry I couldn't help it... It was just too funny not to post.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

One should not expect to find every point of the moral law explicitly elucidated in the Biblical texts. There is also the natural law …
… procreation is morally inseparable from the sexual act … it is morally illegitimate to deliberately sever that potential from any given sexual act.

But if your "natural law" was so obvious to reason, then it would not be confined to Catholic Christians and Orthodox Jews. If "natural law" means anything, then it must be based on rational ethical arguments and I cannot see Humanae Vitae as containing any real arguments at all: just assertions. The curious may be interested in reading section 17:
https://www.webcitation.org/5xI2Wz6...ts/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html