I’ve just got to say it.
Sorry Your Holiness, but this is total bullshit:
Lust, gluttony, greed and the rest of the seven deadly sins gathered in the 6th century will have to get used to a modern companion. A Vatican official has articulated seven new categories of sin “due to the phenomenon of globalization.”
“While sin used to concern mostly the individual, today it has mainly a social resonance,” Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti told L’Osservatore Romano, Vatican City’s local paper
Here’s a list of the new so-called sins:
1. “Bioethical’ violations such as birth control
2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
So if I don’t recycle I’m a sinner just like the guy who cheats on his wife ? If I happen to be successful and earn a lot of money, I’m as bad as a murderer ? And what, pray tell, do you even mean by “contributing to widening divide between rich and poor” and “creating poverty.”
The Church may be right on some things, but when he comes to economics they’ve got their collective heads in the sand.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Heh, the Catholic Church breaks some of them itself by hoarding massive amounts of land, wealth and invests in oil giants, as well as companies that manufacture ammunitions. Does anybody really take these ass clowns seriously anymore?
March 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
The Christian church has always claimed all sins are equal in the eyes of God.
Desiring your neighbors wife is according to Christianity equal to sleeping with her and/or killing her.
And as long as you truly regret it and ask forgiveness afterwards your way to heaven is still open.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yes, but this new list of sins indicates to me that the Church has fully bought in to the nonsense of environmentalism and socialism.
Fine for them, but not for me.
March 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
The Vatican didn’t do anything, one Monsignor did. This isn’t a matter of official doctrine or even an informal recommendation from the Pope. I say this as an atheist, by the way.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I’ve just blogged on this myself (http://layscience.net/?q=node/70), dismantling each of the “sins” in turn. Even if I were a Christian, I don’t see how you can follow a set of statements that - when you analyze them - are basically meaningless…
March 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Churches; Take your pick……
Churches
24 Hour Church of Elvis
Abston Church of Christ
Agnostic Church
Amsterdam Cannabis Ministry
Andersianism
Apostolate of a Silent Soul
Atheists for Jesus
Avalonian Catholic Church
Beer Church
Chapel of the Snoring Possum
Charlie the Hamster Evangelistic Ministry
Christian Vegetarian Association
Church and School of Wicca
Church for the Churchless
Church of All Worlds
Church of Amiga
Church of Ancient Ways
Church of Apatheism
Church of Apeiron
Church of Ben
Church of Betty
Church of Body Modification
Church of Buddy Christ
Church of Buffett, Orthodox
Church of Bullshitology
Church of Cash
Church of Christ Ad Exchange
Church of Civilization
Church of Craft
Church of Critical Thinking
Church of Daler Mehndi
Church of Darwin
Church of Ebriusology
Church of Ed Wood
Church of Emacs
Church of Endora
Church of Fandel
Church of Fear
Church of Fools
Church of Frag
Church of Gid
Church of Girl V4.0
Church of Gnostic Luminism
Church of God Anonymous
Church of Google
Church of Googlism
Church of Hank
Church of Hed
Church of Hot Air
Church of Iron Oak
Church of j35u5 chr15t
Church of Jeff Scholey
Church of John Coltrane
Church of Johnson
Church of JoJo Pieism
Church of Klugman
Church of Least Resistance
Church of Light
Church of Lucifer
Church of Magick
Church of Mary
Church of Mez
Church of Miho
Church of Mockery
Church of Monday Night Football
ECT, ECT, ECT,
http://unusualchurches.blogspot.com/2006/12/hawaii-cannabis-ministry.html
March 10th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
The Vatican’s Daft New “Seven Deadly Sins”: George Bush and Scientists Going to Hell….
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March 11th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Umm, Like much of the xtian storybook, these tend to conflict… Not practicing birth control creates poverty and widens the gap between rich and poor…