August 15, 2005

Thwarting God's Will

There is a lot of time and energy spent arguing about the right of women to control their own bodies, generally focused on abortion. Most people assume that the right to privacy to access safe birth control is "off the table," and that when we discuss rolling back women's autonomy, it is limited to the autonomy of those unfortunate sinners who had a birth control failure, were raped, were overwhelmed, were ill, or chose for other reasons not to to continue the pregnancy. A few of us however, being highly suspicious in nature, view that assumption with skepticism.

Jesus' General links to an op-ed by the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, that fans the flames of suspicion:

Christians must recognize that this rebellion against parenthood represents nothing less than an absolute revolt against God's design. The Scripture points to barrenness as a great curse and children as a divine gift. The Psalmist declared: "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; they will not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate." [Psalm 127: 3-5]
Morally speaking, the epidemic in this regard has nothing to do with those married couples who desire children but are for any reason unable to have them [ed. note: but apparently they remain "cursed" according to the previous paragraph], but in those who are fully capable of having children but reject this intrusion in their lifestyle.

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The Scripture does not even envision married couples who choose not to have children. The shocking reality is that some Christians have bought into this lifestyle and claim childlessness as a legitimate option. The rise of modern contraceptives has made this technologically possible. But the fact remains that though childlessness may be made possible by the contraceptive revolution, it remains a form of rebellion against God's design and order.

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The church should insist that the biblical formula calls for adulthood to mean marriage and marriage to mean children. This reminds us of our responsibility to raise boys to be husbands and fathers and girls to be wives and mothers. God's glory is seen in this, for the family is a critical arena where the glory of God is either displayed or denied. It is just as simple as that.
The church must help this society regain its sanity on the gift of children. Willful barrenness and chosen childlessness must be named as moral rebellion. To demand that marriage means sex -- but not children -- is to defraud the creator of His joy and pleasure in seeing the saints raising His children. That is just the way it is. No kidding.

It's not just anti-abortion position, it's a pro-fecundity position. It's not just "the gays" who offend, it's all non-procreative relationships. Now that we're clear, marriage is between one man who is a daddy and one woman who is a mommy. And any interference with fertility is rebellion against Big Daddy. Got it?

Maybe with as many children as their poor exhausted uteruses can pump out, these rebellious bitches - because of course, in this view women would be no better than bitches in heat - will be too tired to vote and mobilize to protect their rights.

Posted by binky at August 15, 2005 12:48 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Religion


Comments

Ah what a religion - women are nothing but broodmares, and men need to be around just so that they can produce the sperm that will produce generation after generation of dullards exist just to take orders from fascist bigots with no appreciation of the concepts of freedom and liberty. Lovely.

Posted by: Armand at August 15, 2005 01:23 PM | PERMALINK

It isn't all that way, and it certainly doesn't have to be that way. Maybe this is the expression of millinarianism (sp?) that we should have had 1995-2000, but didn't because things were too good in the Clinton years.

Posted by: binky at August 15, 2005 02:14 PM | PERMALINK

Just who is this person, God? I'd like to have a word with him!

Posted by: John at August 16, 2005 10:27 AM | PERMALINK
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