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

[MineralMan]

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/

[Ohiogal]

1. Lapsed Catholic here.

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

[trev]

2. I have had Christians tell me

that God will save us from our environmental disaster.

Still waiting....

[MineralMan]

3. Oh, sure...

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

[3Hotdogs]

4. That's bad news. Looks like rate of population growth is slowing.

Who's gonna buy shit the corporations make?

[Major Nikon]

5. ...

[AtheistCrusader]

6. Running out of room and resources.... and have no natural predators.

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]

7. Well, the rate of growth has dropped a lot, but

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]

8. They still consider demonic possession to be a real thing that happens.

Oh, what a world.

What a world.

[MineralMan]

10. Yes, they do. I suppose if you believe in

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

[Act_of_Reparation]

9. I got myself vasectomized earlier this year.

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.

[MineralMan]

11. Yah, they don't care if you do, as long as they don't have to.