I think this is very important to think about.  I have been life-long appalled at how insensitive to suffering the church is..not just suffering that comes to us, but suffering the church creates, especially through rules about birth control.  No matter how starving the children are, no matter the wars that rage around them, no matter how drunken the father or how abusive the mother, one was to reproduce unto death.  And that is exactly what I was taught.  And not one of the teachers even blinked and said sorry to tell you this but this is the rule.  There was some sort of delight almost in imposing suffering by climbing into bed with people and telling them what they could and could not do.  And it somehow has something to do with the church abuse crisis...there is sadism built in...and I think the best way to rid ourselves of it is to study how we got to where we are, studying the romans, and also especially constantine and paul.