I do not normally stay on top of press releases from the vatican, but boing boing alerted me to 7 new sins that the pope just added to the list.
Here they are:
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
I have a few short comments to a few of these:
@1: What about all of the natural abortions that occur by themselves?
The catholic church promotes celibacy, which isn’t “natural” either.
@2: I noticed that the pope shaves. This act kills millions of cells that ALL have the potential to become a human. Benny better stop shaving if he wants to live by #2.
@3: I will not say drug abuse is not a problem, but it is not my right to tell people what they can and cannot do if it doesn’t bother me.
What about caffeine? This blog wouldn’t exist if this was the case.
@6: Excessive wealth? The catholic church evades taxes by claiming to have the backing of a glorified tooth fairy. They are just cheats like the big corporations. They are also one of the largest land owners in the world. I realize that the land is not organized in a top-down structure, with all the money flowing to the vatican, but they do still take up a lot of space. Not to mention all of the those cemeteries.
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9 Comments on this post
Leave a Comment@4 – Cars. The Vatican must ban cars, planes, any motor using fossile fuel. Also cows and other farm animals, and ants as well, must be destroyed (methane gas). Plastic. Anything that can create waste. Industry, basically.
@5 – Oh, no, the Vatican must ban themselves, both for this one, and numbers 6 and 7. Apart from the excessive wealth, they create poverty by not allowing people birth control and then banning abortion as well. I’m sure they’re guilty of numbers 3 and 4 as well, but not of number 1, since little boys don’t get pregnant.
Has anyone asked Moses?
Comment left on 3.12.2008 by Stine
Nice additions Stine…
….yea, I forgot about moses…I guess we should ask him.
Comment left on 3.12.2008 by Adrian Corscadden
I’m surprised that participating in war isn’t one of them. The old Pope was the only major world leader to denonce the Iraq War. And the new Pope named himself after the Benedictine monk order who I always under the impression were totally dedicated to peace and had olive branches as their symbol. Pretty weak cop-out on the Pope’s part with the ‘new’ 7 sins.
Comment left on 3.13.2008 by Aiden Wiechula
oh and what about interest- the bible condemns it way more then homosexuality and probably more then ‘stem cell research’ (just guessing). They should ban Christians from running banks and give it back to the Jews like the ‘good ol’ days’.
Comment left on 3.13.2008 by Aiden Wiechula
Thanks for those additions weech
I never new thought about interest. If Christians aren’t allowed to charge interest….they shouldn’t ban them from running banks…they should just make them run interest free banks.
Comment left on 3.13.2008 by Adrian Corscadden
I believe society needs rules (even moral ones) or it will destroy itself, but #6 is pretty hard to swallow. I live in a capitalist country where it is every business man’s dream to become excessively wealthy. Are we all sinners?
Comment left on 4.23.2008 by Progman
My father in-law made a joke that the baby better be a boy or not to bother telling him. I was so hurt! How do you even respond to comments like this?
Comment left on 11.17.2009 by danger
i usually stick to natural birth control methods because i am a christian, natural birth control has no side effects too.”‘”
Comment left on 6.28.2010 by Sebastian Hussain
@Sebastian: the problem with natural birth control is that it doesn’t work
Comment left on 7.4.2010 by Adrian Corscadden