He said having babies was the purpose for which women exist.
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Um. If women aren't going to bear human children, I don't know who else is going to do it. So, like, survival of species? Biology?
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So, you read it as demeaning, I read it as kind of an obvious fact. To each their own.
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Yeah. I choose not to have child after child until I wear myself out & die. And my job & fulfilment is as a writer.
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I don't know how you read an argument against celibacy as advocating for women to "have tons of children until they die from it".
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I'm reading an argument saying that it doesn't matter if women wear themselves out & die from having children as saying that.
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If he'd said 'It's better to have some children than not have any' this would be a different matter. Women shld still be able to say no tho.
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Do also understand that mortality rates related to both childbirth and childhood were much higher than today. Again, context.
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Luther was thus speaking against both religious celibacy and real fear of death in face of mortality rates.
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Encouraging young men and women to strive for parenthood regardless of mortal dangers. Unfortunately, men tend not to die from child birth.
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I can read what is says, Alex. It's horrible.
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