who said that procreation is a must? why is it, that if a person decides not to have a child he/she becomes shallow, hedonist, almost morally unacceptable?

The biggest problems faced on the planet are because it is overpopulated. The church is operating in a virtual life about 1000 years ago, when the more catholics the better to defeat and butcher the pagans, heathens and questioners of such theories as the fact that the earth was round, not flat.
It was used during the cold war so that we had more christians than there were communists.
One only has to look at Africa to see the workings of the church.

Good question Barth.

The question of procreation opens up a whole different can of worms.

I'm shocked that these religious people would actually uphold their beliefs in a public fashion. Don't they know that only Muslims are allowed to do that?

Yah, its only when the religious air their beliefs that people get a good whiff of the festering bs behind them.

Had I still been Catholic, the church would not have allowed me to marry my wife because we did not plan on having any kids.