Birth Control, Natural Family Planning, and the Fly
While doing a Google image search for Niccolo Machiavelli (or rather, "machiavelli"), I somehow came across this image, which lead me to Envoy Magazine's website. Envoy Magazine is a Roman Catholic (vice "Catholic", as they refer to themselves, but which actually means "universal") apologetics publication.
I'm about to read an article about Purgatory, but so far I've read this article entitled "Answering Four Common Objections About Contraception and Natural Family Planning". This is a topic that I am keenly interested in, as I intend to be married within the next five years (God willing), and upon the conclusion of the festivities I plan to treat marriage the same way that I'll one day treat retirement: I'll make up for years of responsibility and self-denial by behaving like a young child who has come into the possession of the keys to a candy and/or toy store.
I disagree with the Holy See's stance on birth control; and, to be honest, I find the linked article to be somewhat simplistic, circular in its reasoning, and not very compelling overall. Indeed, there are certain points that I take personal issue with. I fall somewhere in the middle, rejecting the secular world's embrace of on-demand abortion, with birth control and consequence-free sex for all, while simultaneously rejecting what I consider to be an excessively puritanical attitude regarding sex from the Roman Catholic Church.
I have a desire to have several children, which is borne from both my Christian faith and my own natural ambition toward fatherhood; I also believe that I am intelligent, faithful, and responsible enough to have an unregulated, spontaneous, consequence-free sexual relationship with my wife early in our marriage, and a semi-regulated, largely spontaneous (or rather, as spontaneous as I can reasonably expected to be), somewhat consequence-free sexual relationship with my wife once we have children. I feel that I am responsible enough to regulate that using artificial means, and I take issue with the Roman Catholic Church's insinuation that such an attitude and such actions are "gravely sinful".
What do you think?
I'm about to read an article about Purgatory, but so far I've read this article entitled "Answering Four Common Objections About Contraception and Natural Family Planning". This is a topic that I am keenly interested in, as I intend to be married within the next five years (God willing), and upon the conclusion of the festivities I plan to treat marriage the same way that I'll one day treat retirement: I'll make up for years of responsibility and self-denial by behaving like a young child who has come into the possession of the keys to a candy and/or toy store.
I disagree with the Holy See's stance on birth control; and, to be honest, I find the linked article to be somewhat simplistic, circular in its reasoning, and not very compelling overall. Indeed, there are certain points that I take personal issue with. I fall somewhere in the middle, rejecting the secular world's embrace of on-demand abortion, with birth control and consequence-free sex for all, while simultaneously rejecting what I consider to be an excessively puritanical attitude regarding sex from the Roman Catholic Church.
I have a desire to have several children, which is borne from both my Christian faith and my own natural ambition toward fatherhood; I also believe that I am intelligent, faithful, and responsible enough to have an unregulated, spontaneous, consequence-free sexual relationship with my wife early in our marriage, and a semi-regulated, largely spontaneous (or rather, as spontaneous as I can reasonably expected to be), somewhat consequence-free sexual relationship with my wife once we have children. I feel that I am responsible enough to regulate that using artificial means, and I take issue with the Roman Catholic Church's insinuation that such an attitude and such actions are "gravely sinful".
What do you think?
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