Vatican adds 7 more sins - Page 4 - PhillyBlog

Ezra · #31 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008, 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tenzo

And how is it that you have one set of rules for 1,500 years and then someone says 'time out! New rules!'?

Didn't you see the movie Dogma with George Carlin, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon? It explains the whole thing.

Viru511, don't you just see these things as common sense? Why does it need to be an official new sin? Do you think corporations will change their policies because of this list? Do you think anyone will? Will you?

Hospitalitygirl · #32 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezra

Didn't you see the movie Dogma with George Carlin, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon? It explains the whole thing.

Viru511, don't you just see these things as common sense? Why does it need to be an official new sin? Do you think corporations will change their policies because of this list? Do you think anyone will? Will you?

Isn't not killing your mother, father, neighbor or not cheating on your spouse, not to mention not stealing, just common sense as well? They're sins. Does it stop those determined?

It's a set of rules for those more inclined to live within rules.

Ezra · #33 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008, 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hospitalitygirl

It's a set of rules for those more inclined to live within rules.

A lock only keeps honest people out.

Funny how similar religion and politics are. When the old laws don't work... just make more.

xxxTHX1138xxx · #34 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 03:19 PM

Quote:

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.

but its ok to spend way beyond your means right?
It's ok to take out that $350,000 dollar mortgage on a home
that you really can't afford and then expect the government to come and bail our ass out?

xxxTHX1138xxx · #35 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezra

Uh oh... careful... people used to be burned at the stake for making such comments.

The Vatican wants it's gold and it wants yours too.... seeing as it's sinful for you to have any.

replace vatican with Federal government and I think you got it right.

Ezra · #36 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxxTHX1138xxx

replace vatican with Federal government and I think you got it right.

Touche.

Though you have to admit it's pretty ballsy for the Vatican to denounce extreme wealth.

Ezra · #37 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxxTHX1138xxx

G.K. Chesterton quotes:

“I want a Church that moves the world, not one that moves with it.”

“I often find myself in hot water but that way I stay clean.”

“Only a live fish can swim against the current, the dead go with it.”

"Take away the supernatural and what remains is the unnatural"

"Be careful not to be so open-minded that your brains fall out."

Great quotes but if you take away the supernatural, aren't you left with the natural, not unnatural?

The first quote is the best... since it's true that the word of God comes from the Church as proven again by these new sins. I didn't know until this topic came up that the original 7 were relatively new. I had assumed they came from the OT.

Dissident74 · #38 (**permalink**) 03-23-2008, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ezra

Touche.

Though you have to admit it's pretty ballsy for the Vatican to denounce extreme wealth.

Sounds less like Balls, and more like good business sense.
Desperation leads to desperate actions. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to believe in all the wackiness that religion has to offer.