Madfloridian's Journal - Southern Baptist leader says deliberate childlessness defies God's will.

Some of you here have heard me speak of this man, the leader of the Southern Baptist Seminary. I never in my life as a Southern Baptist...now recovering...saw the Baptists meddling in birth control and private lives like this.

There are pages on this from Dr. Al Mohler, here are a couple. I find this detestable. I remember him from years ago, and he was not like this. This is sad.

This is the hijacking of the Southern Baptist Church.

Reverend Al Mohler

Under-Population Worries Southern Baptist Leader

"In a Nov. 27 Chicago Tribune story about married couples choosing to remain childless, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said he sees such a decision as violating God's will.

"I am trying to look at this from a perspective that begins with God's creation," Mohler said. "God's purpose in creation is being trumped by modern practices."

"I would argue that it ought to be falling short of the glory of God. Deliberate childlessness defies God's will," he said.

And this article by Mohler:

Can Christians Use Birth Control?

"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.

..."Thus, in an ironic turn, American evangelicals are rethinking birth control even as a majority of the nation's Roman Catholics indicate a rejection of their Church's teaching. How should evangelicals think about the birth control question?

..."First, we must start with a rejection of the contraceptive mentality that sees pregnancy and children as impositions to be avoided rather than as gifts to be received, loved, and nurtured. This contraceptive mentality is an insidious attack upon God's glory in creation, and the Creator's gift of procreation to the married couple."

This is all making me sick. When we left our Southern Baptist church here over the war, our friends stayed. They have said that the hijacking was much deeper than just the holy war. I now believe them.