Contraception is telling God that you will not serve him with your body. And when you start telling God "No, I will not serve. I will not be fruitful and multiply as you command me to in this marriage. No, I will not serve you this way, God." Ah, but you've just signed up with someone else who said he wouldn't serve and then crawled out of the garden on his belly eating the dust.
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Gee, you know if you removed God from the first three sentences of your little spiel and replaced him with "The Fatherland", you'd have a nice little part of a Nazi propaganda speech by Hitler in 1940.
Contraception is telling God that you will not serve him with your body. Well, unlike you, I don't want to be God's little slut, so when my time comes, I'll strap a sinful, evil, God-denying latex sock over my penis, thank you very much.
As a side note, condoms aren't made to "tell God" anything at all. They're made to prevent pregnancies and STD's, and they do it really, really well.
Everyone knows God wants you to pop out babies left and right until you're up to your ears in debt and have ten children you can't send to college. Because married women are just baby factories.
Heck, at least the serpent told the truth to Adam and Eve, while God played head games and lied to them.
And yes, this is kind of kinky... in a really really creepy way...
Tell me where in the Bible the devil says "I will not serve".
Ah... nowhere, I take it?
If you're going to argue for deliberate overpopulation with the Bible as your guideline, at least ''look'' at the damn thing. It makes your argument look a tiny bit less abhorrent.
So God wants desperately poor couples to make themselves and their potential children even poorer by an endless progression of children?
Honey, that might have worked in a pre-industrial agrarian society, where the more children you had the more farmhands you had and the wealthier you were. Back then family size controlled income level. But today? In an industrial society where income is set by the profession of the parent and not the size of the family, unchecked reproduction is just a guarantee of poverty. By your logic, God wants everyone to be poor, starving, and crammed into minimal housing.
By your logic, God is a dick, and I just don't think that's accurate. You ever think that, just when societies began establishing an industrial economic model, God provided the inspiritation to develop the means to deal with this new development in a responsible manner by controlling our own reproduction? Or is that thought too difficult for you. I hope you also eschew the use of pennicillian, surgery, the internal combustion engine, dentistry, underarm deodorant, and the million other developments that we have come up with to deal with modern life.
"Contraception is telling God that you will not serve him with your body. And when you start telling God "No, I will not serve. I will not be fruitful and multiply as you command me to in this marriage. No, I will not serve you this way, God."
Okay. God, I will not serve. I will not be fruitful and multiply as you command me to in this marriage. No, I will not serve you this way, God. Actually, I won't serve you in any way, God.
So, what? Better to be a fucked-out flabby mess from delivering more kids than you can handle because "God wanted it that way?" If you don't have any kids already, for crying out loud get your tubes tied and adopt a few. We don't need more people, especially when there's quite a large number of kids that have nowhere to go to begin with.
Geez, these quiverfull types are like cat ladies, but with kids...
No one is refusing to serve your God. Your God does not exist and therefore cannot be served no matter how much you might want to.
No, what's happening here is people are refusing to serve the power-mad, delusional, amoral pricks who call themselves God's mouthpieces.
"telling God that you will not serve him with your body"
I thought that God hated teh ghey? Even if that weren't the case, seeing as I'm straight, there's no way I'd want to 'serve' him with my body. Even if he was the 'bottom'.
Now, if God can change genders, and appear as Marilyn Monroe or Bettie Page however - YOWZA! Not even the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse could stop me from 'tenderly serving' God(dess)!
So if you god is omnipotent, why can his will be thwarted by mere human intervention? Why is a thin layer of latex something your omnipotent god has such a problem with? He made Mary pregnant, so why can't he just magic it up like that to make whomever he wants pregnant? And why is there a ~20% rate of miscarriages for known pregnancies? If your god exists, it makes him the most prolific abortionist ever known.
“Contraception is telling God that you will not serve him with your body.”
Fair enough.
Had three kids when we were ready. I will not beggar all of them because God likes big families.
"And when you start telling God "No,”
Nothing happens.
"Ah, but you've just signed up with someone else”
And more ‘nothing’ happens after that.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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