Germs and Birth Control

Most religious traditions date back prior to the germ theory of infection, which is just over a hundred years old. Our religiously derived ethical beliefs predate the standards of cleanliness and sanitation we take for granted. The belief that families must generate as many babies as possible makes sense given the high mortality rate of just a few centuries ago; but now we are creating more people than this planet can sustain. Nature’s birth control is starvation.