I find it morally repugnant to bring into this world children who are unwanted and unloved.
If the principal objectives of Epicureanism are happiness and contentment, then it follows that children should be conceived, born and reared in warmth, love and friendship. Force majeure employed by religious groups claiming to know the mind of God, seek to force women to forego family planning and bear children, often conceived in violence or indifference. This is wicked and inhuman and is the cause of lifelong misery and unhappiness for many millions and untold social problems, mostly among the poor and socially deprived.
The preoccupation of the Catholic church with “life” at any cost is irrational. We should be concentrating on lives of love and happiness. Would you want to be an unwanted child?
The church is not pro-life. That’s propaganda. They’re anti-abortion. If they were pro-life they’d get as scandalized about war and about meat-consumption as they do about abortion.
Also, the pope during the holidays of 2012 gave his blessing to a parliamentarian from Uganda who had promised her constituents that she would pass the ‘Kill the Gays bill’ as a Christmas gift. She was unable to pass the bill, but will attempt once the Ugandan parliament resumes again in January. There is a picture online that went viral of her kneeling in front of the pope and kissing is hands.
People don’t realize how dangerous the pope really is. He thinks we’re still in the times when he was a Nazi enthusiast, when people didn’t care that genocide was happening. But on the point of being pro-life: one can’t be pro-life and not speak up against genocide. Life has never been sacred to the pope.
Hear! Hear! The Pope’s preoccupation is control. He wold rather have total control over a small number of adherents than preside over a broader base of Catholics that just wanted to get along together. Will there be a Catholic church in a hundred years time? With education comes enlightenment (for some anyway!)