So you are advocating violating God's command and engage in the sin of contraception because children are dying of starvation?
Your logic has one huge gaping hole in it, besides the other arguments I would bring to bear:
If they can't get food to those people, how are they going to get contraceptives to those people?
sigh..... It isn't about PRACTICE, it's an example. I advocate (or at least, do not condemn, I'm not a placard waver) contraception as it isn't a biblical mandate not to use it.
However, you are flying right over the point of the example. Not the preponderance of how to get them condoms, but in the attitude that it is better to have starving children, than to prevent pregnancy. This is barbaric.
TLF said:
You are raising a red herring . .a totally invalid argument.
Description of Red Herring
A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:
- Topic A is under discussion.
- Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (when topic B is actually not relevant to topic A).
- Topic A is abandoned.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because merely changing the topic of discussion hardly counts as an argument against a claim.
learn what Red Herring is, before accusing of it.
TLF said:
Children are starving because of the selfishness of people and nations with plenty. Not because they lack contraceptives. . . The world has the ability to end their starvation tomorrow . . but the world refuses to act in such a manner. The world is wrapped in a culture of death and does not value these lives, just as those who practice contraceptive sex do not value the lives that could have been and that they possibly created but were aborted by the contraceptives they used.
I know why there is starvation, I don't need a lesson. All starvation is due to greed. However, the african example isnt even needed, there is plenty of starvation right here at home. The individual living in the country is unable to force the government, nor the people to take care of them. They may already be living with hunger and want. But God will turn his face from them from adding another mouth to feed in an already untenable situation!
TLF said:
But this goes to a whole 'nother level . . .
Who are we to play God and decide who lives and who dies?
These are souls, precious to God. You would deny them life so they would not have to suffer.
This is so like the 21st century mindset of the West to seek comfort and personal happiness at all costs . . to avoid suffering at all costs . .
Sorry . . the pursuit of happiness at the expense of life is not God's call to us . .
God's call to us is to take up our cross (suffering), deny ourselves (seeking our own pleasure and happiness), and follow him . . .
I find it wildly Ironic that the Well fed and comfortable talk about suffering, and ascribe that the poor should just shut up and suffer, as it is we are called to do. I am certain perspective would change with hunger at the door.