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MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 02:16 PM Jun 2019

So, The RCC Still Considers Contraception to Be a Sin?

Look at this chart:



When the Roman Catholic Church was founded, there were about 200 million people on this planet.* Today, there are 7.7 billion, and the count is still rising. By 2100, there will be over 11 billion people. Maybe. Maybe not.

Despite this knowledge, the RCC continues to encourage people to make babies as fast as they can. It tells its followers that trying to control the number of children you produce is sinful, and goes against God's will.

Now, that single church isn't responsible for all of that population growth, but it's part of the problem.

We are running out of room and resources, and all of those people's energy consumption is heating the planet, perhaps to the point of non-survivability. And yet Pope Francis reconfirms the doctrine that dates back to a time when the Earth only had fewer than a quarter of a billion people. The United States alone has about 320 million, more than the total global population when the RCC was founded.

There is something crushingly wrong with continuing to encourage the overpopulation of the only planet we have.

Look at the chart. Imagine that. You can see what has happened. In 1700, population growth was manageable. Something went horribly wrong in the last millennium.

Pray carefully, Pope Francis. It's a dangerous world that you and your cohort have created.

*https://www.ecology.com/population-estimates-year-2050/

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So, The RCC Still Considers Contraception to Be a Sin? (Original Post) MineralMan Jun 2019 OP
Lapsed Catholic here. Ohiogal Jun 2019 #1
I have had Christians tell me trev Jun 2019 #2
Oh, sure... MineralMan Jun 2019 #3
That's bad news. Looks like rate of population growth is slowing. 3Hotdogs Jun 2019 #4
... Major Nikon Jun 2019 #5
Running out of room and resources.... and have no natural predators. AtheistCrusader Jun 2019 #6
Well, the rate of growth has dropped a lot, but MineralMan Jun 2019 #7
They still consider demonic possession to be a real thing that happens. Iggo Jun 2019 #8
Yes, they do. I suppose if you believe in MineralMan Jun 2019 #10
I got myself vasectomized earlier this year. Act_of_Reparation Jun 2019 #9
Yah, they don't care if you do, as long as they don't have to. MineralMan Jun 2019 #11

Ohiogal

(35,188 posts)
1. Lapsed Catholic here.
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 02:22 PM
Jun 2019

It’s not the planet that is of any concern. Subjugation of women is what they want.

trev

(1,480 posts)
2. I have had Christians tell me
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 02:44 PM
Jun 2019

that God will save us from our environmental disaster.

Still waiting....

MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
3. Oh, sure...
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 03:00 PM
Jun 2019

Haven't seen that one around for a couple of thousand years, right? I wouldn't hold my breath.

3Hotdogs

(13,573 posts)
4. That's bad news. Looks like rate of population growth is slowing.
Fri Jun 14, 2019, 03:30 PM
Jun 2019

Who's gonna buy shit the corporations make?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
6. Running out of room and resources.... and have no natural predators.
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 02:23 AM
Jun 2019

We've blown the Lotka-Volterra equations out of the water, so if we don't want to go extinct we must put some other brake on population growth.

MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
7. Well, the rate of growth has dropped a lot, but
Sun Jun 16, 2019, 08:42 AM
Jun 2019

the population is still growing, and with the population at its current level, that is adding millions of new people each year. Meanwhile, life expectancy is higher in most places.

Somewhere on that chart, there should be a point of no return marked. Trouble is, we don't know what that point is.

Iggo

(48,540 posts)
8. They still consider demonic possession to be a real thing that happens.
Mon Jun 17, 2019, 10:03 PM
Jun 2019

Oh, what a world.

What a world.

MineralMan

(148,008 posts)
10. Yes, they do. I suppose if you believe in
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:18 AM
Jun 2019

supernatural entities at all, you might as well believe in them all. Ghosts, demons, fairies, wood sprites, leprechauns. Whatever.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
9. I got myself vasectomized earlier this year.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:07 AM
Jun 2019

I went into a doctor's office and told the lady behind the counter kids are dumb I don't want any of them, and she was like, "Fair enough. Here's your referral."

I went to a urologist's office and was disappointed to find an empty parking lot where I expected a picket line of angry protestors looking to scream and yell and otherwise shame me from my decision to annihilate billions of potential human lives with two pokes of a sharpened hemostat. "Oh, well," I said. "I've come all this way..."

And so I left 30 minutes later with a slight limp and pain in my nethers.

Yes, the Catholic Church still opposes contraception. But they only care enough to do something about it when it's contraception women want.

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