A Protestant Leader Considers The Catholic Argument Against Contraception

Albert Mohler is the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a national radio show host, author, and leading Evangelical theologian. He is very influential in the Evangelical Protestant circles.

He takes on a subject that few Evangelicals even consider - whether the Catholic understanding of contraception is accurate.

His conclusion is that the Catholic Church gets most of it right, but goes too far. Regardless of his conclusion, he honestly takes up the issue and is challenged by it. I recommend a reading of his article. Here is a snip.

The effective separation of sex from procreation may be one of the most important defining marks of our age–and one of the most ominous. This awareness is spreading among American evangelicals, and it threatens to set loose a firestorm.

Most evangelical Protestants greeted the advent of modern birth control technologies with applause and relief. Lacking any substantial theology of marriage, sex, or the family, evangelicals welcomed the development of “The Pill” much as the world celebrated the discovery of penicillin — as one more milestone in the inevitable march of human progress, and the conquest of nature.

At the same time, evangelicals overcame their traditional reticence in matters of sexuality, and produced a growth industry in books, seminars, and even sermon series celebrating sexual ecstasy as one of God’s blessings to married Christians. Once reluctant to admit the very existence of sexuality, evangelicals emerged from the 1960s ready to dish out the latest sexual advice without blushing. As one of the best-selling evangelical sex manuals proclaims, marital sex is Intended for Pleasure. Many evangelicals seem to have forgotten that it was intended for something else as well.
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