Re: Why NFP rather than condoms, sponge, etc.?

Mar 17, '07, 1:16 pm

Dwyer Regular Member   Join Date: February 26, 2007 Posts: 1,359 Religion: Byzantine Catholic

Re: Why NFP rather than condoms, sponge, etc.? I don't think your going to get all the answers about human life from a medical school textbook, Doc Hawkins. There are other areas of knowledge that affect human societies besides science. Aristotle said we know something is something because it has a particular Matter and Form. A corn seed, for instance, for all intents and purposes, is corn. We know the corn seed won't grow into a rose, or a bear, or a pine tree. The corn seed has corn Matter. It won't become anything else except corn. The same with a human embryo. The human embryo won't grow into a rose, a bear, or a pine tree. It has human Matter. It won't become anthing else except a human being. When the corn seed is fertilized, it becomes alive. It grows new cells, and starts to take the Form of a corn plant. But because it has Corn Matter, and won't become anything else besides corn, we know that the new plant is corn from its very beginning. Ditto for the Human embryo. Scientifically, human life begins from conception. It is a proven fact. It doesn't take an M.D. to figure that out. Maybe, Doc, you're the one who has been manipulated by others. Maybe the B.M.A. has brainwashed you. Maybe BBC World, Prime, World News, and Radio 1, 2,3, 4, and the rest of them, and watching too much Till Death Do Us Part idiotic British TV shows have brainwashed you from childhood into a Liberal Democratic tradition mixed with a hefty dose of Fabian Socialism into believing that nothing can be scientifically proven right or wrong and that pro-life people are "extreme." I am not saying that to sound mean. The same can be said about American television. Think about it. Your view is an example the relativism that Pope Benedict XVI has preached against. Read David Hume. He proved that science can't prove anything. You can only go so far with science. Science won't tell you whether invading another country, stealing from, exploiting other people, murdering, or executing someone else is wrong. You need to look at other human faculties to decide these issues. Religion and morality are important. And if you are a Catholic Christian, you believe the Pope, as the Vicar of Christ, has the ultimate say on these matters. Not some medical textbook. I once heard a Holocaust survivor say, and I have this on video tape, that medical doctors, of all professions, were the most numerous of any profession that joined Hitler's S.S. I don't know what that says about the medical profession, at least in Germany. Maybe there is something rotten in Denmark about it. (O.K., that was kind of a cheap shot, but that man really did say that, and I had to mention it).