Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
I suspect all these things originally are about and frankly is maybe still about wanting to spread a belief system (in this case Catholicism), by literally increasing population of believers. I mean certain gnositic sects were against having kids, but they aren't much around now, are they?

So it literally was all about spreading a belief system by having kids. Of course being against birth control doesn't work in the modern world where most people don't even marry until they are in their late 20s or early 30s and sometimes later, where support for single parenthood doesn't exist in this society (or particularly in the catholic church either, maybe try a nordic country?), and where most people don't want 6 kids anyway if they ever did (it is dubious women EVER did, women have always found natural abortificants etc.). So it ultimately just becomes a misogynist position where "boys will be boys", and meanwhile women will be denied birth control. There is respect for life in any number of religions and belief systems, but the Catholic church is with centuries worth of accumulated misogynist baggage.
I agree fully and my contempt for the Catholic church is absolute. I think women who identify as Catholic must have some degree of self-loathing, whether recognized or not.