trigs;398351 wrote#bestpopeever
EDIT: i'm actually curious. do the theists here believe that using artificial contraception is a sin or is this one of the official rules that they ignore? do you only have sexual relations in order to procreate? sex for fun is obviously a sin. also, did you all save yourselves for marriage? just wondering as from my experience, these are the rules usually broken.
I am not a Roman Catholic, so I don't claim to speak for them, nor the Pope.
No, I don't think contraception is a sin; I haven't looked into why Catholics do believe it so, I've never seen the reason in my reading of scripture -I suppose it's all about interpretation of a command to "be fruitful and multiply".
My wife and I multiplied ourselves x1 (we have two kids).
Sex for fun (with one's spouse) is certainly - CERTAINLY -not a sin; again not something I have found in scripture.
For more on this see the book "Intended For Pleasure" ( I don't know the author, it's been recommended to me but I have not read it), or the book "Sex God" by Rob Bell (which I have read).
It's somewhat odd to share this on a public forum (lucky no one reads it), but yes both my wife and I did wait until marriage before we had the sex.