The only cure for this “will to disbelieve” is the movement of the Holy Spirit upon the hearts of men and women. Sadly, it seems that this is being withheld from our nation and our world in the wrath and anger of God against us.  This is the worst judgment of all—to be turned over to ourselves:

Rom 1:26   For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.28   And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

This is a horrific, yet accurate description of the judgment which has fallen upon this nation.  There is nothing worse than for God to withdraw from a soul, leaving it to wander in the darkness of its own sin while yet loudly proclaiming that it is more enlightened than the “stupid and backwards Christians.”  We are in a dire situation, and unless God has mercy and opens the eyes of these people, they will continue to destroy lives and any vestiges of Christian culture that are left. 

It was the Humanae Vitae encyclical as its reception and rejection and its history that was a proof to me that the Holy Spirit guides the Church in a special way through the office of Peter’s successor.

How do we know the pill is wrong?

God created nature and nature makes reproduction a priority.  Without reproduction, organisms go extinct.  In nature the young require nurturing and in nature pair bonding is linked to reproduction in higher animals for the survival of those young.

These are truths.  Truths revealed to us through God’s nature.  Even without the Gospel we can see the folly in breaking the bond between sex, procreation and marriage.

God gave us free will and a brain, so why should we not use those gifts to plan reproduction and enjoy the gift of sex?

Apparently not. One clear example is the fall of modern society.  In our arrogance, we have brought about our extinction.  Current demographics indicate that Christians and western society are on a road to extinction.  In Europe, in the US and to a lesser degree, but gaining momentum, South American countries are not close to replacing themselves.  Some locations have a birthrate close to 1 child per two parents.  It does not take long to go extinct at that rate. 

I look forward to reading this book.

I think another trend worth understanding is the delay of maturity in our modern society.  Humans are designed by God to be fertile from puberty through roughly 40 years of age.  In the past, teens would be preparing for a job, learning a trade and selecting a spouse.  By the time full sexual maturity arrived biologically, most young people would be married, beginning their lives together and strengthening that bond through their love.

Today, teens are thinking about college, partying, sex and staying on their parents insurance as they leave for their 4-5 year resort college experience.  Then delaying marriage, if they even marry, until close to thirty and squeezing in a kid before menopause.  Delayed maturation means sexual peak is wasted on pornography or meaningless sexual encounters.  Marriage once attained is a weaker bond without much of the wonder of maturing together.  In the US, half of all children are born out of wedlock, this is taking it’s toll on the physical, mental and spiritual health of our children.

I don’t consider myself a reactionary.  I do however believe that there are unintended consequences of our arrogance.  I also believe that this arrogance often blinds us to the true reason behind God’s laws.

Our Constitutional Amendment should read:

“The family being a cornerstone of this nation; Congress shall make no law for the benefit of any group of persons whose benefit proves unavailable or undesirable to all citizens; whereby the rights of the several states, localities, and religious organizations shall not be infringed;  Marriage is defined as a union between one man and one woman.”

True marriage (we all have a mother and a father) is universally beneficial.  If the left attacks it they simply prove to be pandering to a special interest.  Hey, this fixes the HHS birth-control/abortion mandate also!!

Many women have been brainwashed into thinking that if they can do as men do, and have sexual relations without getting pregnant, they will achieve instant equality. But, the exact opposite has happened.  Even in our schools, boys feel free to grope and insult the girls. The Islamic tradition of regarding women as inferior beings, has permeated our culture. Women must realize that preserving their bodily integrity and refusing to bow to peer pressure and that of the media, will result in future generations of women being able to walk with dignity and class, holding their heads high.

I find the whole subject of contraception and its affect on society fascinating. How could a society emerging from the genocide of World War II immediately embrace the pill. To support this pill we have legally declared the unborn are not real people but a product of conception. The pill acts as an abortifacient in a significant percentage of cycles and kills an innocent baby. This is done by what use to be the baby’s biggest advocate and protector - the mother. What have we become?

Great read!

Posted by Rick on Saturday, Jun 2, 2012 10:22 AM (EST):
“I find the whole subject of contraception and its affect on society fascinating. How could a society emerging from the genocide of World War II immediately embrace the pill.” 

Well, the generation that came of age during the war had pretty big families. Thus the Boomers. It was the Boomers, who grew up in those families, who embraced the pill. You could consider it their comment on the big family.

Controlling yourself will make you free. Relying on pills and gadgets makes you dependent on them - even slaves to them.

This a book Planned Parenthood doesn’t  want you to read! 
Excellent interview with the author -  well worth a listen: http://www.catholic.com/radio/shows/adam-and-eve-after-the-pill-6983

Excerpts from the publisher’s review:

“Secular and religious thinkers agree: the sexual revolution is one of the most important milestones in human history. Perhaps nothing has changed life for so many, so fast, as the severing of sex and procreation. But what has been the result?

This ground-breaking book by noted essayist and author Mary Eberstadt contends that sexual freedom has paradoxically produced widespread discontent. Drawing on sociologists Pitirim Sorokin, Carle Zimmerman, and others; philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe and novelist Tom Wolfe; and a host of feminists, food writers, musicians, and other voices from across today’s popular culture, Eberstadt makes her contrarian case with an impressive array of evidence. Her chapters range across academic disciplines and include supporting evidence from contemporary literature and music, women’s studies, college memoirs, dietary guides, advertisements, television shows, and films.

Adam and Eve after the Pill examines as no book has before the seismic social changes caused by the sexual revolution. In examining human behavior in the post-liberation world, Eberstadt provocatively asks: Is food the new sex? Is pornography the new tobacco?  

Adam and Eve after the Pill will change the way readers view the paradoxical impact of the sexual revolution on ideas, morals, and humanity itself.” 

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There are several reports that all hell has broken loose in a nearby  troll camp and sounds of violent cursing & the gnashing of teeth can be heard from miles away. The NCR Seraphim Peace Keeping Force has been dispatched to the area.

Interesting phrase,“Will to disbelieve”. Of the many debates in our country, abortion, same sex marraige, contraception, etc. I used to think that in the future after it has been proven that these things are bad for society and humanity, there would coma a day of truth. That day has arrived, alas the will to disbelieve.

The Pill (and other forms of hormonal contraception) use high doses of artificial hormones to throw a woman’s body into such a state of biochemical dysfunction that she no longer ovulates. Needless to say, this dysfunction has other negative effects on her health.

While sometimes the Pill is prescribed as hormonal therapy, it’s primary purpose is a contraceptive. The woman takes her pill so that she (and her male partner—it still takes two to tango) can have sex whenever they want without fear of pregnancy.

Yet science tells us that women can only become pregnant for six days or less out of every cycle. Science also tells us that women can detect which days they may be able to become pregnant with a very high degree of accuracy. When the margin of error is taken into account, most couples need only avoid intercourse for 7-12 days out of every cycle to avoid pregnancy. The other days, conception is impossible.

So hormonal contraception is about damaging a woman’s body every day so that she and her partner can have an extra 7-12 days for relations. To a certain degree, this is no morally different than a man taking artificial male hormones (i.e. steroids) to improve his athletic performance, no matter the consequences to his health. That hormonal contraception is immoral is common sense because hormonal contraception damages women’s bodies for no good reason.

In a book by Lionel Tiger, Ph.D., titled The Decline of Males published in 1999, he cites some research he did with colleagues from Rutgers School of Medicine in 1972. They studied the sexual behavior of a lead male monkey (Austin) when some of the females were put on Depo-Provera, an injected hormonal contraceptive (currently on the market in the USA). After the contraceptive was started, those females with whom he previously preferred as a sexual partner no longer interested him, and he turned to the unmedicated females for copulation. Later, when his favorites were no longer medicated, he returned to them. Conclusion of the researchers: hormonal contraceptives interfere with pheromones, the unconscious chemical signals involved in sexual attraction. Women on contraceptives (who are chemically pregnant) are not attractive to men (this is nature at work: copulating with a pregnant female does not ensure the survival of the species, and thus nature makes men not interested in them). In the same book, Dr. Tiger cites the results of German researchers, who found women not hormonally contracepting preferred the smells from the clothes of men who were rated as desirable by other women (and thus presumably strong men with high sperm counts). Conversely, women on hormonal contraceptives preferred the smells from men rated as not desirable. So, in summary, hormonal contraceptives make a woman unattractive to men, and they lead her to prefer undesirable men. Dr. Tiger further speculates that, to entice men to be attracted to them when they are chemically pregnant, women must dress in provocative ways – exactly what happened in the 1960s, shortly after the introduction of hormonal contraceptives in 1960.

If you look at the growth of population throughout the world before the pill the world would have quickly lost the ability to sustain such growth.  It is still growing at an unsustainable rate.  What really worries me is not just the number of children who are brought into this world but those with little possibility of their growing into loving mature human beings. Both parents should seriously look at their responsibility to provide the love and care that children need over an extended period, 
I brought up eleven children but it was almost a relief when “Oh a good Catholic Mother!” was replaced with “Polluting Planet Earth.” I had enough of this world’s goods, easy pregnancies, healthy children and the support of a loving husband so saw no need to curtail my family but others may not be so fortunate.  Responsible parentage is what is needed and this is what needs to be inculcated.

It is amazing how some will ridicule people of faith for holding something sacred without question, then turn around and do the same with man-made “sacred cows,” like artificial contraception.

I have still not heard a sermon on contraception or for that matter -anything. Very discouraging. I feel like my wife and I, and others who practice what the Church/Christ Teaches are alone in a world gone mad. My pastor is sooo non-contraversal, never talks about anything but that all is rosy.. Things are NOT rosy. Any ideas on what to do?

Yes, David, here’s an idea: assemble some other like-minded individuals (or just you and your wife if you can’t find any) and have a meeting with your pastor in the rectory. Just as pastors try to please the nominally-Catholic, they also should respond to requests from devout Catholics such as yourself. I once confronted a priest after Mass about why he did not mention Hell in his homily when the gospel included Matthew 7:13-14, where Jesus clearly talks about the easy road to Hell. His response: he did that when he was younger, but people complained, so he stopped! So, let’s complain in the other direction: Father, please give us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, not some watered-down garbage!

Hi David,

In April, our parish nights Knights Of Columbus had a 2 day conference on NFP and a seminar on the physical damage that the pill can cause women and citizens at large (i.e. hormones in our drinking water).

Fr. Matthew Habiger, OSB gave a phenomenal sermon at each one of our Sunday masses - you could hear a pin drop. Thunderous applause at the end of his sermon. He was also the keynote speaker at the seminar. Here is is contact info:  http://www.nfpoutreach.org/habiger.htm

Here is a brief overview of this fabulous workshop: (hope this helps!)
THE ISSUE OF CONTRACEPTION
AND GOD’S PLAN FOR LIFE
Saturday, XXXXXX
On XXX , at St. XXX Church we will have
two presentations. The first from 9:00 am to 12:30
pm, and a shortened version from 7:00 pm to 9:00
pm. Admission is free and so is lunch.
Babysitting will be provided at the 9:00 am
presentation to those who call

• What does the Catholic Church teach
about contraception?
• Learn about the adverse effects of
contraception.
• Discover the benefits of NFP and the true
meaning of Spousal Love.

Fr. Matthew Habiger, will explain the Church
teaching. XXXXX, MA, FCP, explains the
adverse effects of contraception, and how to
practice natural family planning.  xxx and xxx have practiced NFP throughout their
marriage and will share their story.
Pxxx Mxxx , MD, will reveal the connection
between abortion and breast cancer.

Cowalker:

Would you allow your wife (or a significant other to take a class one carcinogenic? (see World Health Organization ratings for Synthetic Estrogen and Progestin)

Do you think it “okay” for a healthy woman to expose herself to the well-documented serious risks of oral contraceptives? Scan the list of side effects that comes with a packet/box of birth control pills—you know, the piece of paper that gets tossed in the trash every month. That little insert will tell you that the side effects of “the pill” include (but not limited to): a greater risk of breast cancer, heart attack, stroke and blood clots; serious and potentially fatal heart problems; pulmonary embolisms:  deep vein thrombosis; gallbladder disease & gall bladder damage; kidney stones and renal failure. Also, life threatening high blood pressure, nausea, dizziness, depression, weight gain, migraines, heavy bleeding; yeast overgrowth and infection; an increased incidence of PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) and of ectopic pregnancy; weight gain and breast tenderness to and…long roll of drums…loss of libido!

What do you think of this RECENT NEWS (source – recent reports in legal journals) : Yaz/Yasmin manufacturer, Bayer, has agreed to pay at least $142 million to settle the first 651 lawsuits over claims of blood clots.
Yaz has been linked to an increased risk of dangerous side effects compared other birth control pills. In May 2011, the FDA announced that two studies showed that Yaz use doubles or triples the risk of serious blood clots, or venous thromboembolic events (VTE).
Unscrupulous from the Start - When Yaz was first introduced, manufacturer Bayer touted it as a miracle drug that could relieve common premenstrual ailments ranging from bloating to acne. The FDA found that these claims were untrue and the effectiveness of Yaz was grossly exaggerated. Bayer was forced to run commercials and other advertisements that retracted their former statements.
Potentially Fatal Injuries/SAFETY ALERT: FDA forces Yaz Manufacturers to Update Drug Warning Labels to Reflect Blood Clot Risk

Unfortunately, it was too late for the millions of women who started or switched to Yaz. The use of Yaz has actually been found to be detrimental to the health of women. Even women who are completely healthy before taking Yaz may experience life-threatening side effects, such as:
• Blood Clots/Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT): blood clots in the veins that can result in serious medical conditions. They are most often found in the legs and can contribute to life-threatening conditions when they travel elsewhere in the body.
• Pulmonary Embolism (PE): this is the term used to refer to a blood clot that has traveled to the lungs.
• Heart Attack: blood clots that travel to the heart can result in a heart attack.
• Stroke: a blood clot in the brain can increase the risk of stroke.
• Death: blood clots may be fatal depending on where they travel in the body.
Another drawback of relying on contraceptives to prevent an unwanted pregnancy is that they frequently do not work!  The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s own research arm, released a study showing that condoms fail 14% of the time. That’s enough to provide some concern, especially when coupled with the Guttmacher’s own numbers showing that over half of all abortions are on women who were using some method of birth control. This is a cry in the face of pro-abortion propaganda claiming that if women had better access to birth control, abortions would become unnecessary.
I think most of us on this website would like to know what you think of the fact that the mainstream media does not report this crucial information to the public? 

BTW – in another one of your posts you made the following statement regarding abortions: “An unborn embryo or fetus is not conscious of its situation and is not distraught that it will not be born. It does not have a fear of death”
My response – “I challenge you to head over to YouTube and watch The Silent Scream video - Abortion as Infanticide/ Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s classic video that shocked the world. He explains the procedure of a suction abortion, followed by an actual first trimester abortion as seen through ultrasound. The viewer can see the child’s pathetic attempts to escape the suction curette as her heart rate doubles, and a “silent scream” as her body is torn apart. Make sure that you view the high def version.
Let’s hear what you have to say afterwards.”

****So the BURNING QUESTION is - were you man enough to take me up on my challenge? ****