So, The RCC Still Considers Contraception to Be a Sin? [View all]
Look at this chart:
When the Roman Catholic Church was founded, there were about 200 million people on this planet.* Today, there are 7.7 billion, and the count is still rising. By 2100, there will be over 11 billion people. Maybe. Maybe not.
Despite this knowledge, the RCC continues to encourage people to make babies as fast as they can. It tells its followers that trying to control the number of children you produce is sinful, and goes against God's will.
Now, that single church isn't responsible for all of that population growth, but it's part of the problem.
We are running out of room and resources, and all of those people's energy consumption is heating the planet, perhaps to the point of non-survivability. And yet Pope Francis reconfirms the doctrine that dates back to a time when the Earth only had fewer than a quarter of a billion people. The United States alone has about 320 million, more than the total global population when the RCC was founded.
There is something crushingly wrong with continuing to encourage the overpopulation of the only planet we have.
Look at the chart. Imagine that. You can see what has happened. In 1700, population growth was manageable. Something went horribly wrong in the last millennium.
Pray carefully, Pope Francis. It's a dangerous world that you and your cohort have created.
*https://www.ecology.com/population-estimates-year-2050/
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