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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The church does not teach that birth control is wrong. It teaches that the pope cannot make a mistake. The pope made a mistake when he banned birth control
This is not about do you believe in birth control, it is about whether or not the pope can make a mistake

The bible does not mention it. So how can any church build a doctrine around it?[/quote]

I'm not going to defend birth control.  But as a point of philosophy, the Catholic Church builds theology out of two things:  the bible (and other religious documents) and Natural Law.  Natural Law is roughly the things that can be derived from observing how the universe/ nature works.  The logic is that since God created the universe, its rules reveal God's intentions.

A representative Catholic theologian would be Thomas Aquinas.  It is also an important foundation for our ideas of democracy, because Locke used Natural Law to derive the concept of Life/Liberty/Property, which became Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.[/quote]

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