Monday, March 10, 2008

7 More Deadly sins.

OK - let's see what the Catholic Church has come up with to add to the list of the worst things possible:

“You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbour’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos,” he said.

Bishop Girotti said that mortal sins also included taking or dealing in drugs, and social injustice which caused poverty or “the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few”.

He said that two mortal sins which continued to preoccupy the Vatican were abortion, which offended “the dignity and rights of women”, and paedophilia, which had even infected the clergy itself and so had exposed the “human and institutional fragility of the Church”.

The mass media had “blown up” the issue “to discredit the Church”, but the Church itself was taking steps to deal with it.

Alrighty then. So we've got:

1) Ruining the Environment (Don't litter!)
2) Running morally debatable scientific experiments (Nanotechnologists - watch out!)
3) Messing with DNA (that's just too sciency, and science is bad)
4) Taking drugs (aspirin excepted, I assume)
5) Causing poverty or getting rich (er...isn't the church one of the wealthiest organizations on the planet? And, I thought avarice was covered already)
6) Abortion
7) Pedophilia (although the media has blown up the issue of clergy sex abuse, apparently.)

The Catholic Church - breaking its own rules since 64AD

Seems to me to be a rather ad hoc list (and just the teensiest bit hypocritical), like they came up with it sitting round in Starbucks one Friday afternoon. I would have thought they could have come up with a couple hundred more if they were really trying. How did they come up with the list? Who voted? Which sins didn't make the cut? Staring at computer porn maybe? Listening to Marilyn Manson? I can just imagine the debate in the Vatican "....well, his music is pretty nasty, but I just love the makeup!"

The Pope also complained that an increasing number of people in the secularised West were “making do without God”.

...and quite happily too, I might add.

6 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Why the fuck do you people not understand marilyn manson, and the sppoky kids?
HES not of the Cathloic churches and you souldnt be so damn blasmous in the church you go to that uses the friggin word Blashmous. Your friggin etards. OR you dont know your fayth. You socialbly expect people to hit climax with your Elegant FARCATIES on HOW YOU BELIEVE what PEOPLE should do and how to act. ISNT THAT EVERY SIN RIGHT THERE>? no fuckin wonder people hate this shit. DONT RELPY BACK> Seriously no comment. so shutup about the cathlic churches and I dont care if you go. KEPP IT TO YOUR SELF> OR ITS BLASHMOY. GET IT?>?> AND if you dont THATS WHY.

Steve Weaver said...

Oh dear. This is my first unintelligible hate comment. Where do I even begin? Clearly, humor is lost on Lucy. To quote: "seriously, no comment".

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