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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Science and god: Are they incompatible? If so, why?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:20:51 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- Michael says:
-
- > "To be fair, they're hardly saying that people should go
- >around having unprotected sex. Their line is that the main point of
- >sex is procreation within a monogamous marriage, and that sex which is
- >_not_ directed towards that is sinful.
-
- Abner blinks, looking startled. "Wait a minute ... If sex not directed
- towards procreation is sinful, then does the Catholic Church officially
- oppose sex after the wife hits menopause?" After considering a bit, Abner
- is sure that he would have heard about any belief that silly. Still, that
- means there must be a flaw in the logic chain somewhere. "If the Catholic
- Church *doesn't* oppose sex after the woman hits menopause, how would they
- make that consistant with sex being sinful if not aimed at procreation?"
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