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Talk to a doctor, talk to a priest, stop sharing this on the forum. Too much information.

I am against contraception being used for its intended purpose to prevent birth. If it is being used in an alternative way that doesn't involve the prevention of birth, I don't really care. Although like any substance with a potential for destruction it be avoided as much as possible.

Not an argument. "Go get up and do something about it" like what? What am I going to do about an entire society that has turned away from God? Oh, on the topic. Daily reminder everyone: Politicians' sins are mirror images of your own sins.

There was very clear ad hominem in that "Catholic" attacking me, not "accusations". Also that's not an argument. Just because something is natural (post fall, of course) doesn't mean in all cases it is morally justifiable. My conscience telling me adultery is wrong is also natural, is it not...

Flat earth is bunk but the Middle Ages and antiquity weren’t as bad as today. Today we have mass apostasy, people calling themselves Christians who are happy with their lives of sin, mass destruction of the human soul, etc.

I speak of truth only. I do not differentiate moral truth as it’s own category. A man can die in many ways. Getting hit by a bus is not the only way to die, but it is certainly a way to die. The fact that there are other ways to die does not somehow endorse one jumping in front of a bus.

Those arrangements end and it leaves broken hearts and empty souls behind. Don’t talk down to us.

If you want to teach your own children about that, no one is stopping you from doing so. The secular crusade to “enlighten” the supposed country bumpkins through compulsory education about sex goes against the principles of religious freedom which they claim to cherish. It is a fraud to corrupt...

The Buddhist quote we are discussing does not refer to “moral absolutes”, but rather “changeless, absolute truth”. The word moral was not used. The quote certainly has wisdom in it in that we should avoid hastily making claims, but it is also an absolute denying truth. Birth control is not even...

Both the Orthodox (some of the mainline ones) and the Roman church traditions have been attacked in this way by institutional pressure, however it seems the Roman Catholics pay attention more to the central institution of their faith, the Vatican due to papal supremacy. There is no such center...

Relativism eats itself as it opens its own principles up to a relativistic critique. How do we know the proposition that there are no universal truths is true if there are no universal truths, including that proposition?

They have such a bunker mentality though. According to them, the true Church has essentially vanished, which would seem to contradict Matt 16:18 and apostolic succession in general. There are barely any SSPX in most areas on the US, let alone Sedevecantists.

@Strathos I am in favor of outlawing abortion as it is murder. Mandating marriage is not a law I would make but a social pressure I would hope returns. That is not the Christian teaching in almost any group according to my knowledge. Priests and bishops do not have a monopoly on truth, neither...

I would advise you to not take personal offense at me criticizing sins. This is not a personal attack on you. Most of the time when these separations happen it is based on the idea of “I will find someone better” “I will fall in love again”. But what about the children? Now they have two...

There shouldn't be law dictating you have to marry at a certain age, I just mean society needs to shift its priorities. The parental approach of laissez faire has failed. No wonder our society is wrecked with infidelity and dishonesty if we cannot even approach our loved ones on matters...

In that moment, yes. Lust has more in common with hate than it does with love.

They fail only because we live in a post-sexual revolution society that pushes back against any attempt to be healed. Worship of the state and its "solutions" is a foolish replacement for God. No one is "cast out" from the Church. The Church is a place for healing. As a Christian you are meant...

That is not the Christian view of sex, which has the primary purpose of bearing children that you did not mention. We were also discussing sex outside marriage, which the scriptures absolutely condemn because it is an obfuscation of the purpose of sex. This website provides an adequate...

So they should get married at a young age. Christianity isn't oblivious of these realities. I keep repeating the biblical solution so you may finally understand. If the scriptures are "unrealistic" then this society is truly damned. Flyover America has a lot more of these problems because it's...

Contraception was the stepping stone used in the US to legalize abortion. It’s when the abortion mindset originates from, the idea that people should have as much sex as they want and not have any children - that the purpose of sex is not the creation of life.