Originally Posted by rsl12

If sex and birth control are to be put into terms of hunting, what the Catholic Church is saying is that you should never go hunting unless you actually plan to kill an animal. When you *do* decide to go hunting to kill an animal, do it right and use good quality bullets. Perfectly sensible, isn't it? Nothing hypocritical about it.

Again in terms of hunting, what you're saying is, "why doesn't the Catholic Church say that you should use rubber bullets if you're going hunting just for fun, and not planning to really kill anything? That would keep people from accidentally getting injured." Hmm?? Does that make any sense? If you believe that hunting is solely to be performed for the purposes of killing animals, why would you ever use rubber bullets?

The Catholic Church is being consistent in its refusal to condone the use of condoms--the dogma is that sex is to be performed in the hopes of procreation, and discussing the possibility of condoms would be antithetical to this philosophical stance.

Not that I agree with the idea that sex=procreation, but it would be hypocritical of the Catholic church to condone their use.