Contraception Intermission

Another catchy title eh?  As I stated in “Contraception Preamble“, I would provide my comments to this series of posts either as actual comments to each post or in a separate post.  Well, sense you are reading this it would be safe to say I chose the latter of the two options.  Enjoy!

My thoughts on “Contraception: Why Not? (part 1)” were really just two questions I asked myself.  The first was in reference to Professor Smiths wanting to talk about the “difference between the modern and Christian views of sexuality”.  I asked myself if there really was a difference today?  I am not sure there is and maybe that’s the problem.  The era of my parents and especially my grand parents were an era that saw a difference in divorce rates between the churched and un-churched in society.  As I was growing up the difference was definitely eroding very quickly and today there is no real difference in the divorce rate between the churched and un-churched.  Although I have no idea if this translates over to the rates of extra marital affairs and in general sex outside of marriage I am going to guess that it does (if anyone knows the rates I would love to know).  Either way, for me I do not think there is much of a difference today in how Christians view sexuality and modern society views sexuality.

My second question was in Professor Smiths claim that contraception has altered our view of sexuality.  The more I thought about it I had to agree that it has.  The real question is not has it altered our view but in what way, a positive way or a negative way?

The only thoughts that I had on “Contraception: Why Not? (part 2)” was in relation to Professor Smiths discussion of declining population numbers and the impact on Government services.  It reminded me that in parts of Europe Governments are actually “bribing” (my term) their population to have babies.  There are cash incentives offered if you will have children.  This is offered regardless of if you use the Government health services or private health services.  With all the apparent desire by Americans to have more Government services in their life such as socialized health care I can’t help but think we (America) should be encouraging more births, not less.  Maybe Americans should not be ridiculing or deriding people for having more than two children.  After all, society will need all these children to support Americans ever increasing appetite for Government services.

For “Contraception: Why Not? (part 3)” I found myself contemplating God’s first command to man kind – “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth”.  I wonder if that command is still in affect?  Some people will say no, others will say yes and still others may say that we have fulfilled the command once we have had “x” number of kids.  Something I keep coming back to is how God created the male and female body to function sexually.  This is especially true in how the female body physically functions in a sexual way.  There are very specific functions that the female body does to aid in getting pregnant.  It does not matter if the woman is using contraception or not, the body does and reacts the same way because that is how it was created.  On top of that, God created a beginning (puberty) and an end (menopause) for women.  So could it be that God had and still has a plan for our fertility separate from the plan that modern society has for our fertility?  If so then the next logical question is what is God’s expectation for our use and responsibility of our fertility?

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