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redheadedfemmeI know this pope is mostly regarded as a master theologian, but sometimes he drives me nuts.
Take this quote from this story.
The Pope said that by celebrating the birth of Jesus, people should also think about children serving "as soldiers in a violent world, toward children who have to beg, toward children who suffer deprivation and hunger, toward children who are unloved."
Well, gee. Y'know, if the Catholic church wasn't so ass-backwards about birth control, people would have been taught from puberty how to use it, and you wouldn't have to worry about starving children because they wouldn't exist. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of children would be loved and wanted.
Another reason this gets my goat is because there is no prohibition in the Bible against using birth control. Yes, you can say hormonal birth control didn't exist back then (the modern condom wasn't invented till the 1500's, although some sources say it was in use as long ago as 1350 BC), but the fact that the Bible is silent on the subject leads me to believe this is something God thinks we can make up our own minds about.
There are lots of reasons I would never be Catholic, and this man-made, unnecessary and unScriptural interference in peoples' lives is one of them.
Take this quote from this story.
The Pope said that by celebrating the birth of Jesus, people should also think about children serving "as soldiers in a violent world, toward children who have to beg, toward children who suffer deprivation and hunger, toward children who are unloved."
Well, gee. Y'know, if the Catholic church wasn't so ass-backwards about birth control, people would have been taught from puberty how to use it, and you wouldn't have to worry about starving children because they wouldn't exist. Not to mention the fact that the vast majority of children would be loved and wanted.
Another reason this gets my goat is because there is no prohibition in the Bible against using birth control. Yes, you can say hormonal birth control didn't exist back then (the modern condom wasn't invented till the 1500's, although some sources say it was in use as long ago as 1350 BC), but the fact that the Bible is silent on the subject leads me to believe this is something God thinks we can make up our own minds about.
There are lots of reasons I would never be Catholic, and this man-made, unnecessary and unScriptural interference in peoples' lives is one of them.
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