Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults, ' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults. Merlin Stone
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As the world continues to grow and become more technologically advanced, we will look back at our ancestors and wonder why they did not see the problems that we are facing today. At the times of ancient civilizations, many religions did not see issues in the modern sense. Instead, they saw a good thing in conception and a bad thing in contraception. They believed that a person could conceive a child in a natural way without going through the processes of birth control.

The idea was that when a person had sex with someone else, their body would have a natural reaction to create a new life. In this way, the religion held onto the idea of fertility because it represented God’s power to bring new life into the world. Over time, people began to understand that birth control was needed to help control population growth.

As time goes on, things have changed and we have gotten better at making sure that we continue to live in a clean manner.

Source: When God Was A Woman

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