Reply to: Catholics and birth control

[NotAllThere]

Only the other day I was sowing my seeds and spilt some on the desert. Should I self flagellate?

Only if you enjoy it.

[NotAllThere]

... whereas Islam teaches love...

[FSM with Cheddar]

Only the other day I was sowing my seeds and spilt some on the desert. Should I self flagellate?

[BrowneIssue]

Has any nun ever fathered a child?

There was some bint called Mary that did something equally unlikely...

[Cyberman]

The Mythical Man Month.

Four wives impregnated by one man produce babies at the same rate as four wives being impregnated by four men.

I don't think that would increase the population. You still have the same number of breeding females making babies (but only ¼ of the males trying to make them).

Do you do your economics this way? You should go into banking.

As per BrollyBonce above, it would only be by the replacement or substitution of infertile partners with fertile ones that an increase would occur.

... but there are more breeding females in muslim populations than other populations due to the way that female self-esteem is suppressed. In the west, women are better educated and tend to be more self-reliant and independent and many do not have kids. In Afghanistan for example, women are not allowed to go to school by the Taliban and suffer extreme violence if they try.

[gingerjedi]

Has any nun ever fathered a child?

You've not seen 'Nuns on the Run' have you?

[BrilloPad]

Because Catholic nuns cannot be seen to father children.

Has any nun ever fathered a child?

[gingerjedi]

The Mythical Man Month.

Four wives impregnated by one man produce babies at the same rate as four wives being impregnated by four men.

I don't think that would increase the population. You still have the same number of breeding females making babies (but only ¼ of the males trying to make them).

Do you do your economics this way? You should go into banking.

As per BrollyBonce above, it would only be by the replacement or substitution of infertile partners with fertile ones that an increase would occur.

Yes but the mossers tend to start em' younger.

[BrowneIssue]

Perhaps because polygamy exists for muslims and therefore a guy with four wives is going to have rather more kids than a guy with one wife.

The Mythical Man Month.

Four wives impregnated by one man produce babies at the same rate as four wives being impregnated by four men.

I don't think that would increase the population. You still have the same number of breeding females making babies (but only ¼ of the males trying to make them).

Do you do your economics this way? You should go into banking.

As per BrollyBonce above, it would only be by the replacement or substitution of infertile partners with fertile ones that an increase would occur.

[Cyberman]

So come on, believers, why aren’t there more catholics than muslims? Have you all been ignoring the Papal Bull?

Perhaps because polygamy exists for muslims and therefore a guy with four wives is going to have rather more kids than a guy with one wife.

[PM-Junkie]

So come on, believers, why aren’t there more catholics than muslims? Have you all been ignoring the Papal Bull?

Its a breakdown of the hokey cokey method of catholic birth control. Instead or putting it in they've been shaking it all about

[BrollyBonce]

Oh oh, don't get started on this topic you'll have the raving bigot out in a minute. Mind you, now I've posted on this thread he won't be long behind me.

So come on, believers, why aren’t there more catholics than muslims? Have you all been ignoring the Papal Bull?

Because Catholic nuns cannot be seen to father children, which reduces the breeding population of Catholics. Because Catholic priests are not supposed to reproduce (so make do with little boys even more than arabs do) that reduces the breeding population. Because Catholicism teaches guilt whereas Islam teaches love, that delays the early breeding of Catholics without hindering the Moslems. Because Moslem men can have multiple wives, the sterile ones end up with none and the fertile blokes get their full quota, maximising the breeding rate. And because Moslem men can have multiple wives, if one wife is barren he can still breed.

Is this helping?

What else? Oh yes. Catholic missionaries tend to gain few converts because the Spanish conqistadores had a tendency to wipe out potential converts, and those that were converted were later massacred by USA-funded intervention in South American civil wars in huge numbers. Meanwhile Moslem converts tend not to be subjected to genocide on a continental scale.

Any more? Oh yes. Moslems tend to only quietly drown or bury alive their babies because of short term nationalistic, political pressures. Catholics do it from out-of-wedlock shame.

Next bigot, please?

[Mich the Tester]

Have we all heard Marcus Brigstockes Abrahamic faiths rant?

Yes. Brilliant. 'Muslims, listen up my bearded and veily friends, calm down!'

[Platypus]

No out of touch old giffer in a museum in Rome can tell me that I shouldn't do something because God wouldn't like it.

Well done. What a bloody shame that those poor buggers in Africa do believe it and spread AIDS while producing children doomed to die.

But I'm sure God's ok with that.

[Menelaus]

I'm afraid that church determinations on sexual conduct (especially RC - I mean, FFS, why take advice from a celibate?!) is as hypocritical as it is wrong.

Have we all heard Marcus Brigstockes Abrahamic faiths rant?