to prevent this progressive movement for the past one hundred
years, they finally accepted defeat, proving once again that religion
has never accepted anything that science has shown to be a fact or of
benefit to humanity until it was compelled to do so to save its face.
The infallible Church, however, still persists in its opposition and in
the Encyclical of Pope Pius XI, published in January, 1931, it is said,
"The conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of
children. Those who, in exercising it, deliberately frustrate its
natural power, and purpose, are against nature and commit a deed which
is shameful and intrinsically vicious." So speaks the infallible Pope,
but the great majority of physicians hold that there are few things more
perilous to mental health, intellectual efficiency, moral equanimity,
and physical well-being than prolonged denial of the sex urge for the
average, normal human being. Every physician can furnish numerous case
histories to substantiate the statement that continual sexual abstinence
is prejudicial to the health and happiness of the man and woman, and is
the causation of hundreds of semiderelicts and psychoneurotics.
Furthermore, the rising tide of insanity in this country would be
stemmed were religion and sex permanently divorced.

Today the modern clergy still endeavor to explain natural phenomena by
supernatural theories, and while they do not assign preternatural powers
to witches and demons, they yet persist in attempting to pervert facts
of science, and delude themselves with faith in some supernatural force.
The clergy state that the physician cures disease through the mediation
of God, the physician merely playing the part of the agent of God,
through whom the real cure is effected. Is anything more ridiculous and
at the same time more contradictory, than to suppose that an
all-powerful god should have to appoint an intermediary to perform his
work? And if it is only by God's will and aid that a cure takes place,
then it follows that God must be willing for the individual to be cured;
why in the name of reason, did He not prevent the initial step, the
contracting of the disease? What a mass of suffering, of mental anguish
might thus have been spared us! Thus, this omnipotent being either did
not desire to spare us this misery and suffering, in which case he must
surely be a monster incarnate; or, on the other hand, he is powerless
to halt it, and thus cannot b