COMMENTS: Note the worldly mindset of this article.
It does not mention God as the Creator of all life.
It assumes that pregnancies are planned by man.
Unintended pregnancies are to be feared.
It does not assume the marriage bond.
It offers no cautions or health concerns related to various methods.
It cares not whether some birth control methods causes abortions or have abortifacient properties.
It assumes total lack of self-control – since some birth control methods take a few days to start working – to that extent that one needs “backup methods” until it takes effect.
The concept of abstinence is never mentioned.
Even “more natural methods” are not mentioned.
One must have multiple methods available at all times to be ready just in case.
The extent of planning and research and care and caution required to avoid pregnancy is somewhat astounding.
Planned Parenthood, the U.S. top provider of abortion services, is advised as a good source for more information.
Birth control is assumed as a good and necessary part of the lives of all people
We've finally begun production and we're excited to announce that we completed our first interview for the film with Mr. Geoff Botkin.
We couldn't have asked for a better interview. We captured over three hours of content. Mr. Botkin brought amazing wisdom and incredible insight to our arguments and his passion for the message is invigorating! We can't wait to share with you what we are capturing and learning.
The biggest testament to the film and to this message was seeing it lived out. After the interview, we were invited to dinner with the Botkin family. Not including us, there were 16 people present for dinner. Everyone was enjoying the fellowship and each person was helping prepare for dinner. There was no hint of hindrance or burden from having these children. We each caught ourselves saying "I cannot wait to have this large of a family." It's like the best birthday celebration, every evening of the week.
We'll be posting soon with updates from our next interview on our trip around the country. Stay tuned!
In 1930, for the first time ever, the Church changed their view on Birth Control. This was the beginning of the rapid descent of the Church into modernism in the 20th century. Shortly after this disastrous decision, theologian and bishop Charles Gore authored a response:
"There is nothing really more astonishing than that in the course of nature a spiritual power so great as the production of a new personality, destined for immortal life, should have been entrusted by God to that in man which is so easily misled and misused as his sexual instincts and powers. But so it is. And the propagation of the species is in the order of nature judged to be of such importance that man is, like the lower animals, induced to it, with all its attendant pains and cares, by a desire more passionate and a pleasure more intense attaching to the sexual act than to almost any other kind of human action. But the justification of the pleasure lies primarily in its direction towards the end of propagation. This is assuredly the lesson of biology and the lesson of Holy Scripture and of Church tradition. Mankind in its willfulness has been always seeking to separate the pleasure from its end by different kinds of practices which have been condemned by the Church as unnatural. The Church has regarded Birth Prevention as sinful because....
