#8 Religious Fanatics Who Denounce Birth Control Because It Is Not In The Bible
Although the flat-out rejection of birth control is pretty much the antithesis of what we stand for here at stopreproducing.com, there was a time when we would be willing to let you eschew birth control in all its forms and be swallowed up in the ever growing pile of dirty diapers and other waste that the overly large number of your completely unnecessary progeny were producing. We are big believers in personal choice here, but with the increased population putting a strain on natural resources and basically threatening our ability to continue to function effectively as a species, we must politely ask you to stop rejecting the benefits of birth control.
We, not so politely, would also like to ask you to stop pushing your baby manufacturing propaganda on the rest of us. Seriously, cease and desist, it is absurd. Hey pharmacist that refuses to supply birth control pills to people requesting them on the basis that “they are not in the bible, and therefore wrong”: guess what else wasn’t in the bible: pharmacies… and pharmacists. Most forms of modern medicine were not in the bible, so we guess god does not want us to have those either; they obviously are evil and should not be used. You better stop giving out insulin to diabetics and heart medicines to old people. And cough drops? They are probably Satan’s tears sent here on earth to lead us astray. Yeah, you should probably just pack up shop and find a new job, because I have read the bible and do not remember any pharmacists: if you want to go to the big party in the clouds you should probably be a farmer or a shepherd. We hope you were not planning on driving to your new profession, because god does not want us to have cars either, otherwise Adam would have named all the beasts of land and air from the front seat of his Escalade. You sure as shit, should not be reading this on a computer, as those are also not in the bible. I guess you got the parchment scroll we put out.
For the rest of you, we hope you are cool with the fact that about half, if not more of the babies you decide to have will probably die in childbirth when you are forced to have a midwife come deliver your babies in your ever-so-sterile hut or manger. When the kids that do survive get sick, I hope that frankincense and myrrh swiftly cure whatever ails them. And ladies, lets see how gung-ho you are about not using contraception when the number of women who die in childbirth skyrockets due to us collectively deciding to go back to the medical standards of ancient Mesopotamia.
The “it’s not in the bible” defense is so insanely hypocritical, we do not understand how the brains of these birth control deniers do not just shut down from that sort of logic-defying thought. It’s revealing to highlight the fact that the bible, while omitting any mention of birth control, explicitly denounces each of:
- Banking (Deuteronomy 23:19)
- Wearing mixed-fiber fabrics (Deuteronomy 22:11)
- Eating anything from the sea that lacks fins or scales, i.e. lobster (Leviticus 11:9)
Strangely, society does not receive the same righteous objections from the alleged biblical scholars in regards to these evils. Is it that God clarifies what sections of the bible to recognize, or more likely, that these quacks arbitrarily choose to ignore or enforce the bible’s declarations and OMISSIONS to meet their own selfish, questionable agendas?
To the titular readers of this entry, do us all a favor: discontinue the moral lecturing, admit you are mindless, misguided hypocrites and stop reproducing.
Why not just withold all medication, pre-natal care and post-natal care in Africa, Latin America, The Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia? That's where all the population growth is.
I will not admit that I am mindless, but I will say only this if you have the right to spout this about religion then we have the same fucking right to say the same thing to you.
Hypocrite
I frown upon your use of profanity. Judgement is coming.
To the first commentor, why don't you just take it one step further and start murdering people in the areas of highest population growth. Just mow them down as they climb out of the womb. Although we're anti-population growth, we're still humanitarians. Education, NOT RELIGION or refusal of medical care, is the answer in these regions.
To the second commentor, if you're devoutly religious and never question the merits of your faith, you should just go ahead and admit you're a mindless twit.
Just a couple months ago the Pope said in referring to condoms and HIV prevention in Africa, "You can't resolve it with distribution of condoms, on the contrary it increases the problem." That's a completely asinine statement and this figurehead of religion is doing a huge disservice to the control of HIV/AIDS. People are going to hump… it feels good and so we do it(natural selection makes it that way because those with the stronger sex drive are more likely to procreate). Condoms prevent population growth AND the spread of HIV/AIDS… both epidemics.
What does the Pope offer as an alternative to condoms… ABSTINENCE before marriage? That's like telling a little kid, "this ice cream cone tastes delicious, is going to melt, and you're starving but how about you go on a hunger strike instead until you really want it and God (whose existence is unprovable) will embrace you in heaven." That kid won't hold out very long, you can at least give him a napkin so he doesn't get his face dirty if he does decide to eat it.
Yes, you have the right to say I should stop reproducing, but at least if I decide to do so, I'll teach my children to think for themselves instead of being mindless sheep that blindly follow the religion of their parents. BAAAAAAHHHH.
Thank you poster before me.
I am religoius, but that doesn't mean I agree word for word in the bible. Guess what? I drink, I fuck(and use protection), I sin. It's expected. It's human nature. No one is perfect, and according to christianity, Jesus came to earth the pay the ultimate price of ALL of EVERYONES' sins. So why not live a little?
Think for yourself. I know I became a lot happier when I stopped believing word for word of the bible and started thinking for myself.
One last thing: a lot of the bible is hiprocricy.
And thanks again poster above me who posted at 6:40 PM July 9th. You said it better than I could have.