Vatican adds 7 more sins - Page 2 - PhillyBlog

tbdiscovery · #11 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 03:51 PM

Excessive wealth in a free market society largely comes from the rewards of innovation. Innovation and creativity are detrimental to the church, so it only makes sense to equalize wealth - except internally - and keep the paupers in their place.

jae · #12 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 04:15 PM

Why didn't child molestation make the list?

Phillycatlady · #13 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Malloy

No kidding. When I grew up in Overbrook, only 1 person had a brand new Mercedes...and it was a St Callistus priest.

Priests with money? What's up with that? And also I have seen fat priests. I don't mean they can just "stand to lose a few", I mean obese. Health issues aside, isn't gluttony a sin?

tudor · #14 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Shosh

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

This is really Catch 22 if you are a poor person.

Ezra · #15 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by tudor

This is really Catch 22 if you are a poor person.

The Lord sayeth unto thee.... thou shalt earneth more tomorrow than upon this day or thee shalt burn in Hell.

Amen.

marnie · #16 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 03:02 AM

4. Polluting the environment

Does this mean that I have to recycle now?

Do I have to make a confession including every single plastic bottle I ever threw in a trash can, or just the ones since he declared it sinful?

Phillybud · #17 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Winston

Actually, that fancy hat would qualify them for one of the old-school sins too: pride. As would everything else they've got in the closet. I've been to the Vatican. St. Peter's has more bling than an entire season of Cribs.

At least wearing Fabulous DRAG is no sin. A bunch of drag queens, they are!

rickdogood · #18 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 06:03 AM

The seven new sins 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

#1- Contribute to the overpopulation of the planet
#4- If you don't recycle your a sinner! And don't start your Car
#5, 6 & 7 are all the same worded differently. - I guess the Cardinals aren't allowed to hobnob with the bigwigs anymore and the Church in Rome is going to disperse all of it's excessive wealth.

niel · #19 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Shosh

Hmmm, seems to me that you can't really avoid the New Sin No. 1 without engaging in New Sin Nos. 5 & 7 since more babies born to people who can't afford them in the first place "contribute[es] to widening the divide between rich and poor" and "creat[es] poverty." So only the wealthy should have sex, I guess.

Of course, every new person on this planet causes pollution no matter how you "green" you try to live, so New Sin No. 4 is also violated no matter what.

So I guess the Church is saying that no one should ever have sex again. Yeah. Right. That's the ticket.

This is exactly right. These new sins are in direct conflict with each other. Then again, perhaps that's by design - after all, if people all stopped sinning, the church would have no fears left to dangle over their heads.

BTW, it seems to me that proscribing "excessive wealth" is unnecessary since one of the 7 deadly original sins was greed, which pretty much covers that situation.

tbdiscovery · #20 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 10:34 AM

Numbers 5 and 7 were directly created and continued by the concept of money. Perhaps we should revert to a system of barter. And what would the church produce for exchange?

The concept of the church violates Number 4.