🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Zarlenga wrote:
> 
> Melissa (Melissa9Z@Zmho.net) wrote:
> : Look, questioning authoritarianism doesn't make anyone a bigot, and yes the
> : Catholic church still opposes all modern forms of birth control and tells
> : people to "be fruitful and multiply" so they can gain political power through
> 
> The Catholic Church condemns sex outside marriage.
> 
> Be fruitful and multiply is within the confines of a marriage.
> 
> You forgot to mention that.

Since the Church promotes marriage, except for the priestly classes (those who
take vows, anyways), the condemnation of sex outside of marriage combined with
modern medicine and much-longer reproductive lifespans to equal nothing more
than a slight time-delay before whole-hog reprocdutive frenzies. Look at it
this way, when the Church declared even onanism to be a sin, the world was
reeling from a population collapse in europe amounting to something like 4 out
of 5 people, from the Plagues, and a woman on average might live through four
childsbirths, with perhaps two of the children surviving to become parents,
with about a half-child surviving to become grandparents. The situation has
changed. Now even grandmothers may conceive and give birth and possible live
to see the great great granchildren give birth into a grossly overcrowded
world in which developing nations are exploding into the technical mode
wherein once only the US had 10 percent of the population and consumed 40% of
the resources. soon all of those overcrowded little countries will have the
same resource-usage rates, but nobody to exploit. what then?

Zero Population Growth is the _minimum_ sensible response.

> 
> : "It's not easy being cute." - The Warner Brothers' sister Dot.
> 
> How easy is it being ignorant?
> 
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