Quote from: Santantonio on Today at 05:40:17 AMQuote from: TradGranny on May 23, 2025, 03:22:38 PMQuote from: Santantonio on May 23, 2025, 09:46:46 AMIf we ever indeed do start decreasing in population, there is nothing wrong at all about it. As a matter of fact, it's going to become necessary at some point, unless we totally change the way we live, and I don't see that happening.
Yes, there is something wrong with "decreasing the population."
1. God told us to increase and multiply.
2. Who do you plan to eliminate in order to decrease the population?
3. What do you think about the current popularity of
murdering babies in the womb,
sexually mutilating children who will never be able to have children,
stealth euthanasia in which some "hospice" centers practice mercy killing by withholding food and water and over-dosing morphine (with no saline in the IV)?
You're really going off the rails on me. All I did was post real demographic facts. To repeat, I said the U.S. has almost twice as many people in my life, and over twice as many Catholics in the world. The world itself has over twice as many people in it overall.
In this modern age, our transportation and lifestyle infrastructure has drastically deprived the natural world which God created, we are in a major extinction of species, because of the way we live and our population growth because population growth at this scale cannot continue indefinitely due to the fact that this world God gave us is limited in its size and especially its habitable land. We are charged by God to be good stewards of His creation. Why do I even have to post this?
The divine instruction to go forth and multiply was given to TWO PEOPLE in Genesis 1:28. Putting the flood aside for a minute (which I do believe in), the fact today is there are 8.23 Billion people. They sure did multiply.
Another point I attempted to make was that corporations, banks, governments, militaries, they desire an increasing population for their own selfish reasons. Just like they desire to hurt these when against their chosen enemies. Of course there are cases when it is a just aim, however, in most cases this perceived crisis is only due to the reliance on most non-Catholic economic systems and models which demand usury and "growth" by monetary debasement which is designed to increase the astronomical wealth disparity and strip away sovereignty from all but the elite class. If the population hits a hiccup or stagnates long-term, there is a deflationary pressure, and that deflation goes against all their desires, which is why our people's money has devalued by over 99% in the last 100 years.
I might also remind you that as a Catholic you or anyone else should not be thinking in terms of "White" demographics, because the populations of Catholic non-Whites is increasing. The reason is that they either live in countries where families are affordable, or they go on welfare, while the White populations do live in countries that are NOT affordable and tend to eschew welfare. The years when large famliies were produced were extremely different times than today for a huge number of reasons too large to post about, but everything posted above applies to that situation, when there was 10-20% of the current population, and before the modern age with all its transportation and infrastructure forever changed our world.
I'm going to stop because I made enough points. I'm not even going to address the accusations you made against me which were merely red herrings and actually quite offensive. I just don't think it's a crisis of lack of people, or lack of Catholics. Other topics begin in other threads.
Quote from: james03 on Today at 09:48:31 AMQuoteAm I understanding correctly that it is not a sin to divorce if the reason for requesting the divorce is one listed by the church, but the sin is REMARRIAGE?Quote from: Mark 10:11And he saith to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery against her 12 And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
Remarrying is the mortal sin of adultery. It can not be fixed with confession since there is no purpose of amendment.
Getting divorced MAY come under the sin of disobedience. If it is part of a separation under the guidance of a priest, it is never sinful. In other cases a Catholic should consult a priest.
Quote from: Santantonio on Today at 05:40:17 AMQuote from: TradGranny on May 23, 2025, 03:22:38 PMQuote from: Santantonio on May 23, 2025, 09:46:46 AMIf we ever indeed do start decreasing in population, there is nothing wrong at all about it. As a matter of fact, it's going to become necessary at some point, unless we totally change the way we live, and I don't see that happening.
Yes, there is something wrong with "decreasing the population."
1. God told us to increase and multiply.
2. Who do you plan to eliminate in order to decrease the population?
3. What do you think about the current popularity of
murdering babies in the womb,
sexually mutilating children who will never be able to have children,
stealth euthanasia in which some "hospice" centers practice mercy killing by withholding food and water and over-dosing morphine (with no saline in the IV)?
You're really going off the rails on me. All I did was post real demographic facts. To repeat, I said the U.S. has almost twice as many people in my life, and over twice as many Catholics in the world. The world itself has over twice as many people in it overall.
. . . population growth at this scale cannot continue indefinitely due to the fact that this world God gave us is limited in its size and especially its habitable land. We are charged by God to be good stewards of His creation.
The divine instruction to go forth and multiply was given to TWO PEOPLE in Genesis 1:28. Putting the flood aside for a minute (which I do believe in), the fact today is there are 8.23 Billion people. They sure did multiply.
. . . I might also remind you that as a Catholic you or anyone else should not be thinking in terms of "White" demographics, because the populations of Catholic non-Whites is increasing.
. . . I'm going to stop because I made enough points. I'm not even going to address the accusations you made against me which were merely red herrings and actually quite offensive. I just don't think it's a crisis of lack of people, or lack of Catholics. Other topics begin in other threads.
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