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What's the matter with birth control?

So you think parents should have children they don't really want? I knew, from the time I was old enough to conceive, that six or eight kids would absolutely drive me insane. Though I would die for either of my own two grown children, I really don't particularly like kids. I was able to be a pretty good mother to two, but I would have been a horrible mother had I had as many as I probably would have had, had we not used contraception.
I'm LDS as well, and don't your words sound selfish & rebellious? Lets see: God commanded us to multiply and replenish the earth, and your response is: I don't "want" to.

What do you say to this?
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
I'm LDS as well, and don't your words sound selfish & rebellious? Lets see: God commanded us to multiply and replenish the earth, and your response is: I don't "want" to.

What do you say to this?

The earth has been replenished? It might be time to turn off the spigot?
 

waitasec

Veteran Member
I'm LDS as well, and don't your words sound selfish & rebellious? Lets see: God commanded us to multiply and replenish the earth, and your response is: I don't "want" to.

What do you say to this?
have you ever considered the idea that the scriptures were written for another day and age?
 
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9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
I'm LDS as well, and don't your words sound selfish & rebellious? Lets see: God commanded us to multiply and replenish the earth, and your response is: I don't "want" to.

What do you say to this?
Frankly, I think that the more selfish mindset is the one that values obedience to God (or at least to what one thinks God wants) over the well-being of the children that would result.
 
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Frankly, I think that the more selfish mindset is the one that values obedience to God (or at least to what one thinks God wants) over the well-being of the children that would result.
Most people in the world would think this way. But I don't fault you for being carnally minded. It's not entirely your fault.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Most people in the world would think this way. But I don't fault you for being carnally minded. It's not entirely your fault.

So in your bizarre little world, being a responsible, empathetic parent is being "carnally minded"? Your view is a slap to the face of both children and god.
 
So in your bizarre little world, being a responsible, empathetic parent is being "carnally minded"? Your view is a slap to the face of both children and god.
No, being a pro-abortion, and a pro-depopulation disciple is carnally minded. My view is a slap in the face to all carnally minded.
 
Through education. But hopefully most people would arrive to that conclusion on their own via common sense.
But where? Where do you intend to take that message? To the first world, where some countries are already dangerously close to dipping below critical mass? Don't you think your message would be better used in the third world?
 
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