On the causes of overpopulation

Being a product of good Christianity and sufficient bible studies I am aware of the point the CBCP wanted to emphasize in their adamant obstruction against artificial birth control. Aside form being devotees of the taboos about life and procreation they are worrisome of the tolerance granted to youths who are then safe to engage on premarital sex with wild promiscuity.

Such things are reasonable, but, provided you have a country whose population is mostly composed with a great number of Christians-turned-covert-fornicators and poor couples killing pre-natal humans and throwing them in the thrash can or the drainage, there is no use capping the influx of man-made family planning devices. What the CBCP has to do is to reassess its stand on these issues, and divert their attentions to the concrete sources of the social problem such as the responsibilities of the media and the role of liberal materialism on people’s conviction and lifestyles.

I do not want to be viewed as a violator to the Biblical cautions against premarital sex, but the thing is that focusing much energy on the prohibition of artificial contraceptives will do nothing in a situation where the people, especially the youth, are already stalwarts of sexual ventures. And why are the Filipinos’ intrepid? Simple, because beleaguering influences have overran whatever Christian bearing they acquired from either good or bad parentage. And the Church, being itself the ancient dictator of faith, is losing its power of reinforcing morality. Instead it came to bark at the wrong tree, and the CBCP is the worst by doing it upside down. Instead of chopping the roots these cronies of mob rule are uselessly tearing on dead leaves.

The argument is that why do they keep on poking fingers at the moral holes of artificial family planning when the rest are doing procreation after procreation with or without the contraceptives? That is why these devices exist, because they are just merely supplying the demand of the masses, and the more these people are being influenced by the pornography legalized under artistic pretensions (give me a break, I am an artist and I know art when I see one, but not in those prostitutes legitimized by contracts advertising on TV) in both print and aired media the more the demands for condoms, contraceptive pills, cervical caps, IUDs, hormonal contraceptives and the like. I am not exonerating these things, but perhaps there are somethings more to blame, and the Church should not turn a blind eye on them.

In order to avoid fornication as well as married couples incessantly bearing babies like Gatling guns used in the Spanish-American War and sometimes half of which are not the husband’s turning into a fad (isn’t it already a fad today?) the Church must strike what needs to be struck first, to wit, the starting line where immorality and lack of self-control come from. And those are the vehicles that provide the stimulus to push harder and harder without thinking of whatever future lies ahead.