Love And Life
Posted by: tony on 08/24/2007 05:49 PM
Updated by: tony on 08/24/2007 05:49 PM
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Expires: 09/24/2007 12:00 AM
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The inimitable Jen from Et Tu? has again hit one out of the park. The one quote that stuck out for me was this:
One thing about it all quickly jumped out to me: if all this soul/God/eternity stuff is true, then human sexuality is a very, very grave matter. I thought of sex, that same 'ol thing I'd seen bandied about in the media and in pop culture all my life, and suddenly realized: Whoa! Hey! This is the process through which human beings -- people with eternal souls, dearly precious to God -- are created! What a profoundly miraculous, sacred thing this is. What an unbelievable, undeserved honor that God would allow us to take part in co-creating lives with him!
Without God, what, exactly is the purpose of creating children? Is it to "accessorize" ourselves with little people who share our DNA? Until recent times, the propagation of our species was left up to nature. At the dawning of the "age of Aquarius" we took control of our reproduction, creating children ourselves at our whim when we were ready. And if, by chance a "mistake" was made, there was a simple medical procedure that would take care of the problem (by killing the life growing within us).
We were playing God.
When we had the chance to separate life and love, we took it. Why should we rely on God to know what's good for us, we are much better equipped to know our own "financial situation" and know when and how many children are best for us.
So now we have love without life (contraception) and life without love (IVF).
We Catholics complain about the "priest shortage". God has planned as many holy priests as we need, if we only trust in Him.
But we don't.
The next time you flush a condom, think: "Someone's parish priest, who will begin celebrating Mass 28 years from now might be in there".
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