SHARI | 2006-04-21
On the article Mark just commented onin the same way (below), Shari says:
Help! I have no idea what you are getting at. It seems to me that a steril ideal is a pretty current thing. I have a Catholic aunt who had 10 children in the 1950's and early 60's. Lots of families in my home town had several children, although mine wasn't one of them. I hope that,perhaps Elizabeth can comment on this. Or that you have something further to say! By the way, I think that chastity is the ideal for the young and never married. But then I also think that marriage is put off for a ridiculously long time now.
Comment by Shari
Like everybody else, Shari is correcting me without referrijng to the general point I was trying to make.
Sigh! OK, let's do the drill:
No, Shari, I am saying that every aspect of Catholicism is for sterility. In fact, parts of Germany and the Netherlands that went Protestant have lost population relative to the ones that stayed Catholic.
Congratulations. You have made a point you could have made if Bob had never been born.
I also said that Protestant churches are as desperate to prove that Jesus never had a sexual thought in his life as Catholics are, but that was ignored.
So we are back to your correction,, which was all you got out of the article.
Which is exactly what the article is about.
There is a conviction in white countries with Christian cultures that a high morality means steility for us. All mention of genetics is evil because of a mind set deep within us.
I was trying to deal with that mindset.
So, Shari, we have concluded that the only point you got out of the article, that the Catholic Church has been treated unfairly, represents unfairness on Bob's part.
Once again, congratulations