Reaping the Consequences

Skyrocketing divorce rates, broken homes, incurable sexually transmitted diseases, rampant pornography, abortion, AIDS, homosexuality, abuse of women. These horrible things are our reality in Western Society today. These are the consequences that Pope Paul VI warned society would suffer if we accepted contraception. These prophecies, in the 1968 Papal Encyclical Humanae Vitae sec 17, have all come to pass.

Let's look at a few of them:

We are fallen beings, prone to weaknesses and temptations, needing incentives to stay on the moral path. If we try to take away the natural consequence of sex (pregnancy), then recreation sex will become acceptable and widespread. Anyone with a brain and a set of eyes can see that this has come to pass. STDs that didn't even exist back in 1960 are rampant today and spread through widespread recreational sex.

If we separate sex from procreation, then adultery will become easier, since there will be less of a chance of an unintended pregnancy. A divorce rate of over 50% is all the proof you need that this prophecy came true.

As Pope Paul VI said, a general lowering of moral standards will ensue after society accepts contraception. Pornography and everything that follows it (addiction, perversions and every manner of devious behavior) is become almost normal today.

If a man uses contraception when having sex with a woman, in order to enjoy sexual pleasure without the natural consequences, then he may start to look at her as only a sex object. He may not want to marry her and take care of her, and will instead forget her dignity and degrade her. Sure enough, in our society today we have abused women, single mothers, strippers and hookers, all degraded and reduced to mere sex toys, not valued wives, deserving of dignity.

Finally, his Holiness warned that if contraception was adopted by a society that men and women would start to ignore the natural law and stop practicing self control in marriage in the regulation of births. Governments may then start to promote or even require contraception. The Obamacare HHS mandate is the clearest example you could ask for.

Other consequences that Pope Paul VI didn't explicitly mention also followed the acceptance of contraception. The slaughter of babies through abortion is the best example. Since sex becomes all about pleasure when people use contraception, and they attempt to block procreation, they resort to killing the baby when contraception fails.

The Church reiterates God's Law that sex is primarily for married couples to procreate but also to show their unity and love for each other. Both purposes are required. Sex is not about one person pleasing himself, but about participating in God's plan of creation. Sex is an image of the love between the Father and Son in the Holy Trinity, begetting the Holy Spirit. Sex is also an image of Jesus uniting Himself with His bride, the Church, and with each of us in Holy Communion. Instead, society has turned sex into something twisted, perverted and used for selfish ends. We are now reaping the consequences of this.


Humanae Vitae

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