Religiously leading us to more suffering
Posted by: bhapu in Utopian Polis, and the BuPiBi CountryI don’t get it. What makes the Catholic church leadership so blind that it can’t see it’s belligerent stand against contraception as hypocritical and totally un-Christian. Is it because ever since the council of Nicea, it’s leaders have been sexophobic? Priests were forbidden to marry, women weren’t allowed to administer the holy sacraments, and for all intents and purposes, have morphed into the saducees and pharisees of Jesus’ time. Theirs is the sin of the first sinner - pride. And if you don’t believe me, look up what the Pope says about himself as the leader of the church. What kind of humble servant of God proclaims himself (or his office) as infallible? Is that like claiming God’s mantle as your own? Puhleeze. It took the Catholic church centuries before it would even admit it was wrong in persecuting Aristotle for claiming the earth was not the center of the solar system. And still the Pope insists on infallibility. As if there would be an antidote for asininity.
Yeah, yeah, I know. The church, in its early beginnings, HAD to claim infallibility so as to preserve the church from breaking up. It had to maintain a united front, and a strong leadership that would not be unquestionable so as to survive. But we are past that stage now. Christianity is the biggest religion in the world, next to Islam. Insisting on that foolish pride just shows up these sorry church leaders as so unlike Christ. In fact, much of Christianity’s decline today can be traced back to its leadership. And it’s losing its faithful by the thousand day by day because it is unwilling to - yes, cast away its pride.
I have a lot of bone to pick with this religion I was born into. Yes. Born into. I did not choose it, my parents chose it for me. As their parents before them did. But that does not mean I am less a believer of Christ and of God than them. It only means I don’t believe in the Church as it is today. Not these men in robes pretending only they have the keys of heaven. Not these hypocrites who ogle scripture yet fail to live the essence of it. We don’t need priests, the Pope, religious leaders to believe in God. We only need ourselves and God.
In business, this is called eliminating the middle men.
Here are Christ’s two greatest commandments
"’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And
the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law
and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matthew 22:37-40,
NIV)
Unconscionable are conservatives who belligerently insists contraception as against God’s wishes. If you love your neighbor as yourself, does that mean you’d wish impoverishment on yourself because you had too many mouths to feed?
Oh, I’ve heard all the arguments of these rabid purists.
Contraception is murder - since when? since the sperm or the egg alone became alive? It won’t even be alive until it has joined, divided multiple of times, and formed a heart and have it start beating. By then, it’d be abortion. And we’re not talking about that, are we?
Contraception is subverting God’s nature and plan - well, duh. He obviously trusted us more to give us enough brains to figure out contraception I’d doubt He’d object to us using it to better the lives of our neighbors.
Contraception reduces women as sex objects - err. Nowhere in the bible has God even been as sexophobic as these anti-contraception wackos. We are enjoined to enjoy our sexuality. Sanctity of marriage won’t be broken just because both couples are enjoying their sex. They’re married after all. We’re not talking about adultery, or sexual depravity. We’re talking about two individuals, married, sharing their love for each other - as often as they want. Without having to bring to the world a child they may be unable to feed.
Natural family planning is the way - yeah. Tell that to the marines, father. Meanwhile, while the rest of the world isn’t as sexually disciplined as you stuck up pricks, can we for the meantime help the poor by allowing them not to impoverish themselves even further?
How do you help a drowning man?
Stand by the shore and decry loudly that God created water and bouyancy laws and we should therefore not mess with it, or plunge in the water and save the drowning man?
Because as blasphemous as it may seem, conscience dictates we save lives first before playing sanctimonious. And death by slow hunger due to poverty or death by murder is just both the same. And these wackos aid and abet poverty worldwide.
Mass murderers, the fools.
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commenter Mike had this to say on Manolo’s blog about this blogpost of min:
I really have to react to this diatribe of Harion. The Catholic Church’s position is not an easy one to follow, but so are many of Christ’s teachings. For instance, Jesus explicitly stated that there should be no divorce, but how many Christian countries follow that?
You cannot cherry-pick what you like from the faith and call yourself Christian. You are Christian if you believe in the truths He revealed. Remember: “You are my friends if you follow my teachings.” He also said, “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church.”
Have you even bothered to read Humanae Vitae? The Church teaches that sex is an awesome expression of love between two married people, and this love begets love. It is not a toy or a sport as pop culture is selling it. Now, which attitude is more responsible? Which attitude, if adopted, is more likely to produce happy families and less likely to spread HIV and STDs?
Many have been wondering why our country’s HIV numbers are so low compared to, say, Thailand where condoms are everywhere. I think it’s because people are still listening to authentic Church teachings on sexual morality, which results in less risky behavior in the first place.
If you want to blame someone for the poverty this country is experiencing, you would do better to start with those handing out and receiving P500,000 bags of cash rather than with those who are trying their best to follow the authentic teachings of Christ.
my rebuttal:
First, the Catholic church, is not Christ. well, not the church we know today anyway. as i’ve said, they’ve lost their way, much as the pharisees had. and second, you have to distinguish catholic states from individual catholics. it is the state that legalizes divorce. and the state is secular. now, it is up to individual catholics to keep to their faith and follow God’s commandments.
If you would look closely, it is the catholic leadership today who are doing the cherry picking. deciding on their own “infallible” selves to misinterpret God’s commandments. Yes, I am more a Christian bec I believe in the truth HE revealed. HE, not the church leadership. Peter is Peter. But many of the succeeding leaders of the church have not exemplified him.
No. But since you mentioned it, I will read it sometime. Perhaps you’d also like to read St. Thomas Aquinas’ writings. Best proof that faith does not have to be illogical or mystical for people to follow it blindly.
If sex is such an awesome expression of love, then why does the church not want married couples to experience it as often as possible? Why exalt abstinence vs love?
which attitude is more responsible? siring kids even if you can’t feed them or siring only a number of kids you can support?
which attitude will produce happy families? bahala-na-si- Lord-kung-gusto-niya-ako-bigyan-ng-sandamakmak-na-anak-at- nang-magutom-kami-lahat attitude or sane family planning?
God helps those who help themselves.
have you seen a family of twelve starving to death happy?
and your swipe at HIV and STDs per contraception is non-sequitor. unprotected sex spreads HIV and STDs. not contraception. and if you’re a faithful spouse, why worry abt them at all? again, you are swerving away into adultery, multiple partners, fornication, etc; not contraception. we are debating allowing contraception bet married couples aren’t we? and jz to make my stand clear, i am only for contraception bet married couples.
again, you touch on this subject which has no bearing at all abt contraception. you see, the misconception abt contraception is CONDOMS. but condoms are just one way. there’s IUD’s, pills, patches, and if you’re really decided you don’t want any more kids - there’s ligation for women and vasectomy for men. and the Church’s idea abt sexual morality is so warped i wonder if they even have any moral ascendancy at all re this subject. (and i will diverge on this topic only if you provoke me) HIV numbers in our country are irrelevant. and even then, our numbers are lower than Thailand’s not bec people here are still listening to the church, but bec Thailand has more tourists coming in. They bring HIV and spread it. and again, risky behavior is irrelevant. if you’re only f*cking each other (spouse), where is the risky behavior in that? again, you have to note that I am only for contraception bet married couples. why can’t the church see that by prohibiting wholesale use of contraceptives, even on legitimately married couples, it brings more suffering than it averts?
do not equate contraceptive with instant fornication.
I have condemned them as well. But churchmen abetting in poverty - that is unconscionable. And I wouldn’t call prohibiting contraceptives as Christ’s authentic teaching. please do quote scripture where Christ says: Thou shalt f*ck thy wife only by thine prescribed methods…
more callous is this guy dOdOng who says this;
You barely can feed you and your wife because of poverty and then you raised 7 children? What the heck comes into your mind? That gives you reason to blame the government. Excuse me. Blame yourself for raising kids without providing for the future.
to which I replied:
I’d love for you to be born dirt poor. let’s see how you blame yourself when that happens.
as MBW said, easy to blame others when you have no idea how it is to be in their shoes. illiterate, uneducated, jobless - you won’t be smart enough to think about the consequences of sex when you’re this poor.
to open your eyes, i wish you’d suddenly lose your job while your wife is pregnant - with quadruplets, lose all your savings, properties, and then be unable to find a job and then i’ll come up to you as you’re crying when your kids are sick and dying and say: you have no one to blame but yourself for not providing for their future. cruelty of fate is not an excuse.