Moral decay is a man-made disaster

Now I can rest my head in sleep, that I have read a letter that gives me hope that I am not surrounded by total blindness and denial.

Now I can rest my head in sleep after reading a LTE that has anesthetized me all the way into the land of nod. Most of the letters that tell us, through the writings of illogical men that appear to be suffering from illusions that man is on the path to disaster because he has ignored the word of god, tend to put me to sleep on a regular basis. GGpap

When we allow humanist ideology to replace the sacred scripture we open pandora's box and unleash all manners of perversion. The more we as a nation remove God from public thought the closer we get to the idea as Marx put it, "religion is the opiate of the masses." The writings found in holy writ are to be used to teach us what is acceptable to God and to teach us about who God is.

This is not the first time man has drifted into the world of "anything goes and it's all good". Some of the time we survive and some of the time it leads to a major set back. Time will tell which will happen this time.

The misogynist Paul Rosenthal comes out of his hole once again. You want to know why we are in the mess we are in? The misogyny from MOST of the religious leaders in the US and our total lack of respect for the environment by our out-of-control procreation.

........."This is not the first time man has drifted into the world of "anything goes and it's all good". Some of the time we survive and some of the time it leads to a major set back. Time will tell which will happen this time.
Posted by patriciathomas on Tue May 12, 2009 5:11 AM "...........No need to wait Pat; we have already seen the effects and there is more to come. Contraception eliminates the consequences of sexual intercourse and enables recreational sex, Also, the acceptance of contraception necessarily leads to he acceptance of abortion. The next consequence of accepting contraception will be same-sex marriage which will become legal in every state. The rational argument against same-sex marriage was lost when contraception was accepted.

Sorry Paul, but you're too late. A lot of your neighbors have already married dogs.

When I read this LTE I wondered how long it would be before the idiots and ill-taught would come out of the woodwork. 5:13am, guess they were still sleeping.

What is it with this new mantra of people ending up marrying their pets, for crying out loud? Or people ending up wanting to marry their sons and daughters? You people have gone totally off the scale. And, which one of you pious jerks has kept your wicket in your britches except to procreate? Where in the Constitution does it say that we are one nation under God? You sanctimonious hypocrites have enough trouble understanding the golden rule. You've had no trouble with the killing of innocents in other lands over the course of our history for whatever reason, from "rights" to exploit third world countries over their resources to the flat-out annexing of other countries as our "manifest destiny". The biggest moral outrage should be directed at our leaders for doing such acts in the name of "our interests" when those interests are not "ours", but in reality the interests of big-monied corporations. Statements like "historically, sexual intercourse is moral only between one woman and one man in marriage" is ludicrous, unless that is YOUR take, under YOUR religion. You religious zealots are more responsible than anyone for our "moral decline", and you all smack of hypocrisy.

mr. paul rosenthal-a very good article,but as you will see that most of the comments will be from people like in the day of noah,laughing at you,having parties,marrying,doing there on thing,etc.people like that didn't have there ticket punched for the first coming and they want be anymore ready for the second coming.all we can do is pray for people like that.keep up the good fight,you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

This guy seriously needs help. And which ten commandments, Mr. Rosenthal? There are three.

Umm, people had sex for fun well before this century. There were mass murders and war well before this century. There were hideous crimes well before this century. Condoms have not ruined society anymore than television and movies. If you have read anything about history you would know we have it better today than many people in the past had it.

Hey, Confederates liked sex, too! But seriously, isn't it ironic that contraception, which is probably the most effective prevention of abortion, is considered by so many religious zealots to be a sin? I agree, by the way, with the writer's statement about "thinking" versus "feeling." The letter, however, seems to convey more emotion than objectivity, and it seems to dwell heavily upon the sins of a remote, impersonal government against the helpless people. Sorry, can't buy that.

The nations going to hell, but I am not!

Exactly lowell, some rich confederate leaders liked raping their black slaves. Milton, if there is a heaven and hell you are no more qualified to determine who goes where than the rest of us.

If Rosenthal were a woman, I wonder if he would be open to allowing for the possibility of pregnancy every time he had sex. It's easy for a man to say that contraception should never be used. Men do not have to go through pregnancy and childbirth. I wonder if Rosenthal would like to bear a dozen or so babies. Abortion, adultery, homosexuality, and a general lowering of morality in the form of prostitution all existed long before contraception was available. People like Rosenthal sit in thieir ivory towers, far removed from the trenches of the delivery rooms, the breastfeeding, and the full time and stressful jobs that raising small children entails. If Rosenthat thinks that keeping women in subjugation and sexual slavery, and barefoot and pregnaant, is in keeping with how a society maintains morality, he is so confused and repressed as to be pathetic. Sex has never, in the history of the world, been relegated for procreation only. It has always been used for recreation also, not just since 1968. And by the way, an unmarried, presumably celibate male in the form of a pope does not a sex expert make.

Also, it is not the Pope who must control his urges. HE never has to crawl into bed at night with a wife who is worn out and while the yougest of a growing brood is in the next room, only a few weeks or months old, and he would do anything for some birth control rather than make her pregnant again and have another mouth to feed. Is the church going to care for the excessive number of children this couple are forced to produce because the pope will not sanction birth control? Or is Rosenthal? I thought not. You can't do that and sit in your ivory tower, far removed from the trenches of real life. The Rosenthals and the rest of the apologists for medieval religion occupy a seperate reality, which exists exclusively in their own minds.

"The next consequence of accepting contraception will be same-sex marriage "- why would people of the same sex need contraception?