Quote: Matter-eater Man said: Well if you consider the problems that the church has with it's Priest & Nuns on the celabacy thing, yeah there are going to still be regular folk having premarital sex no matter how much you push abstinence. I'm not saying it's not worth pushing but its never been a solution. The only difference these days is guys don't have to marry the gal if he gets her nocked up.
Well met. But how prevalent are these problems in the Catholic church you're referring to? (Note - I'm not Catholic so don't take this as some sort of challenge.) I'll concede that no matter how much abstinence is promoted people will still not listen. But referring to the aforementioned car-crash analogy, a lot of people die in car crashes because they don't wear their seat belts. Do we decide that seat belts aren't worth putting in there because some people don't wear them anyway? Then why do we use the same sort of argument when it comes to abstinence?
