Okay, let's jump into our first question, which is a doozy.

Is birth control morally wrong?

Why or why not?

What are some more of your thoughts from my conversation with Christopher West?

If you did not listen to that episode, I would highly recommend going to check it out.

Christopher West gave a really thorough argument for what would be considered a pretty standard or at least historic Catholic position on birth control and really the role of procreation within marriage.

And Christopher West did argue that birth control is morally wrong.

Now, before I address this question, I do want to say it.

I've said this many times on the podcast that I am sympathetic to a more Catholic view of marriage, sex, and procreation.

I didn't always believe that.

It's in the last several years where the more I look into this, the more I do see

biblical and theological and certainly historical legitimacy to this viewpoint, namely that marriage,

marriage is designed to be a procreative relationship and a call to marriage,

you know, if you'll call the marriage, that is also a call to procreate inasmuch as you are able to.

Obviously, there's things that prevent procreation from actually happening.

At the very least, like if somebody came to me, and this is my view, I know this is not a super popular view.

And, you know, yeah, I'll just say it.

You know, if someone came to me and said, hey, I'm called to marriage, but I'm not called to

have kids, I would the very least say, I, you know, and I don't know if I'd necessarily say this

in the first conversation, but what's going through my mind is, well, the theological burden rests on you to show how you can be called to marriage and not called to procreate.

Chris stated, and he is correct, that church history was pretty uniform on this question up until the invention of the pill.

And really, you know, the overwhelming consensus among Christians outside of Protestantism would still agree with the weight of church history that

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