I had a nice
exchange with 2 of my co-workers last the other day. Someway or another our conversation turned to
pregnancies and what people can do to avoid them. One co-worker is a non-practicing, nominal
Catholic and the other was a non-denominational Christian.
After I told
them that I didn't agree with having a vasectomy. The nominal Catholic laughed and said: “Wait,
wait, lets see what the extremist has to say about this.” When I told them that we shouldn’t ‘mutilate’
our bodies for our convenience he started giggling. The purpose of medicine is to return our
bodies to a natural state. I said that
it wasn't a natural thing to do to your body and so we shouldn't do anything to
disrupt the natural functioning of our organs.
He (the nominal Catholic) just started laughing. He thought that I'd disagree with removing a
kidney stone since that was a natural thing.
My answer to
that though was kinda simple. I told him, and the other non-denominational
Christian that medicine is suppose to repair or return the organs and body in
general to its original purpose which is why wearing glasses is ok since it
improves the functioning of the eyes and the same for the kidney stone. The stone impedes the kidney from functioning
properly hence it is ok to remove it.
The only thing he had left was to turn around and he kept smirking but he
gave up the argument. Hopefully I was
able to plant a seed to both of them. I
have great hope that the other individual listening will chew on this for a
while. At least he seemed to be receptive of this idea of the true role
of medicine. I just thought I'd share
with you. I hope they'll be more of
those moments, I just hope I have a ready response when/if they do and please
do not shy away from defending the Catholic position on moral issues. Her reasons that the Church holds these
positions are on very solid ground, we just need to go look them up and share
them when the opportunities arise.
God Bless
Nathan
Nathan
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