SAO PAULO, Brazil - Just weeks after Pope Benedict XVI denounced government-backed contraception in a visit to Brazil, the president unveiled a program Monday to provide cheap birth control pills at 10,000 drug stores across the country.
(applauds) If this is the effect the Pope has on the countries he visits, I encourage him to tour widely and often.
"The church favors responsible parenthood, with parents using natural (birth control) methods," said Tempesta, who oversees the church in the northeastern state of Para.
- Brazil to subsidize birth control pills
As the joke goes, the Catholic Church allows women to use mathematics to prevent pregnancy, but neither physics nor chemistry. "Natural Family Planning" has always struck me as a ridiculously contrived loophole. I once heard it explained that the method leaves open the opportunity for God to "give" you a child, if he so wishes. I suppose that if I were to believe in an omnipotent deity who reputably once managed to impregnate a virgin, I'd likely trust that neither a condom nor a pill full of hormones would be likely to thwart him. Perhaps I’m over-estimating omnipotence.
(cross posted at The Atheist Mama)
5 comments:
Perhaps I’m over-estimating omnipotence.
I love that ! (If I wasn't actually at work I think I would roll on the floor laughing, but I don't think people will apreciate that kind of behaviour here)
I wish God had given me such a sense of humour...
I think you are over-estimating.
Omni means a little 2-door car. While, potence refers to something about to happen.
So..... it means a car is coming; I think that's right:)
snoow,
I wish God had given me such a sense of humour...
Those who have been graced with French cheese have no right to complain about God's gifts
Regardless, thank you. :)
remy,
Omni means a little 2-door car. While, potence refers to something about to happen.
So..... it means a car is coming; I think that's right:)
(blinks)
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Goodness, maybe this explains a lot of confusion over many, many years. God isn't all-powerful; he's a perpetually arriving small car.
Perhaps you should write to various religious leaders explaining your brilliant revelation.
Those who have been graced with French cheese have no right to complain about God's gifts
You're right, at least, I have that. Speaking of cheeses, I've just been eating a great Saint Félicien (The fact that its name contains 'saint' is a proof that it is a gift of God) and it was divine...
(I know, I'm mean)
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