March 10, 2008, 3:01 pm
Seven More Sins, Thanks to Vatican
By Mike Nizza
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. Bloomberg News parsed his remarks into a clip-n-savable list:
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
The message, according to a leading scholar on Catholic thought talking to BBC News, was meant as a reality check to priests “not sufficiently attuned to some of the real evils in our world.” There is more to life than following the Ten Commandments, it would seem.
back to me: the vatican is declaring something as sinful that they themselves describe as "morally dubious?" Isn't that syntactically nonsense?
And, while we're at it, looks like the Catholic Church really wants some more members.
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2 comments:
I'm perpetually exhausted with the Pope + his crew + their shenanigans.
Religion will never be relevant enough. People have to turn to something other than the bible to deal with ethical gray space, at least the vatican is taking BABY STEPS to get there. But that's the problem, what the fuck are we supposed to do with this half-assed 1/4 step into the future.
This is your 70 year-old aunt finally putting on sequins. Guess what bitch, disco is over and no one cares.
Sorry if that makes me sounds like a socialist...
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