The Vatican has listed new sinful behaviors

[Haole Girl]

Great, just what we need... new ones added to the list!

:eyes:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/03/10/vatican.updates.sins.ap/index.html

Vatican lists new sinful behaviors

ROME, Italy (AP) -- A Vatican official has listed drugs, pollution and genetic manipulations as well as social and economic injustices as new areas of sinful behavior.

[sniffa]

1. "A Vatican official has listed drugs"

Scientologists have their lawsuit ready.

[Haole Girl]

3. I love the way they dismissed the child abuse scandals as...,.

"...had been excessively emphasized by the media."

:eyes:

[sniffa]

5. Heh

I'm born and raised at the heart of the scandal. Being a long dead Catholic, this was still shocking; not that it happened, but on the massive scale it happened, and the amount of cover-ups that had to take place to keep it under wraps for so long. Fuck Cardinal Law the most, even though he gave me the inspiration for a kick-ass poker game.

[rug]

2. Dammit. I don't have enough time as it is.

[Haole Girl]

4. Really! nt

[siligut]

6. Ack!

Those purveyors of guilt and superstition need to shut up and get real jobs, hopefully somewhere they can’t make any judgments or pronouncements.

[Haole Girl]

8. I think they should have to work in call centers...

..for 12 years...as penance!! lol

[Darth_Kitten]

14. More anti-catholicism? Geez..........

what's wrong with their list? Really?

[PeaceNikki]

19. I think this line left a bad taste in my mouth:

"He said Church authorities had reacted with rigorous measures to child abuse scandals within the clergy, but he also claimed that the issue had been excessively emphasized by the media."

I think it's been excessively swept under the rug by the church.

[Darth_Kitten]

20. Perhaps.......but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater...

:)

[Deep13]

44. Wow. What baby?

First, I don't owe the Catholic Church any respect at all. It is in no position to dictate morality, not only for the child-rapists they knowingly protected, but for cruelties being perpetrated throughout the centuries.

Second, "the Church" (as if it were the only one) is once again trying to limit scientific inquiry. Frankly, if we listened to its teaching, we would still be bleeding sick people.

I am talking about the institution, not the parishioners.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. Haha.

The Vatican becomes more irrevelant by the day. :D

[billyskank]

7. Board meeting with God?

[Haole Girl]

9. Ya know...

I have a feeling some of them are in for a rude awakening upon death.

Hope I don't go to hell for saying that!

:rofl:

[Ava]

10. yeah.. i won't be a catholic nun

as a matter of fact.. i think i should make up my own religion for being a nun. hmm.. what to call this new religion............

[Haole Girl]

11. Hmm...

Avaterian...Avatist...Avaontology...? The possibilities! :D :hi:

[Ava]

13. Avatist.. i like it

:rofl: ;)

what about Avatisterianismology? :P

[redwitch]

15. Can we please just call it Ava for short?

I have a hard time with spelling. :P

[DarkTirade]

21. The Animator was telling me about his idea to create a new religion recently.

A religion based upon the most holy of holy things in this world.

Chocolate.

You'll have to ask him for the details, all I know is I volunteered for a high-up position that involves eating chocolate and wearing a funny hat.

[Ava]

23. eww.. i don't like chocolate

ick

[DarkTirade]

28. ... BLASPHEMY!!!!!!

:P

[Initech]

12. Pollution?

Guess all the drivers of gas-guzzling pickups, raised pickups, SUVs, muscle cars, dirt bikes, boats, RVs, trailers, and so on are literally going to hell then!

[siligut]

17. Actually, that one is good.

Anything to help people be more concerned with their impact on the environment is by its very nature good.

[Lyric]

16. "Genetic manipulations"?

Does that mean that the scientists who made those glow-in-the-dark cats are going to burn in hell for eternity? :shrug:



I CAN HAS UR ETERNUL SOLE

[Bucky]

18. I wanna know if genital manipulations is still sinful.

More to the point, wasn't Gregor Mendell a Catholic monk? Surely the father of selective breeding isn't going to burn!

[Deep13]

45. All agricultural products are the result of genetic manipulation.

So they basically learned nothing from Galileo.

[Iggo]

48. So horse breeders are all going to hell now?

Daaaaaang!

[JoePhilly]

22. Posting on GD-P should be one of them.

:evilgrin:

[alarimer]

24. I am still working my way through the 7 deadly sins.

I am on sloth, which makes the others a little difficult to accomplish and they keep adding more! I can't keep up!

[DarkTirade]

29. Ironically, if you get off your bum and get around to doing the rest of them

then you'll no longer be slothful. :(

[alarimer]

33. It's a conundrum all right. n/t

[TZ]

25. Genetic manipulations, eh?

Well, see my avatar is really really true. I'm going straight to hell for manipulating the hell out of the antibodies to make people well...I guess getting sick and dying needlessly is good for the soul.Lets hope nobody in the Vatican needs a vaccine anytime soon..or they will all be going to hell....:crazy:

[DarkTirade]

34. Heh... kinda reminds me of the PETA people who are against animal testing...

but get insulin shots for their diabetes.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

26. Oh, at this point, who gives a fuck about the Vatican?

:D

[Haole Girl]

35. I don't. nt

[bookworm65t]

30. economic injustice= greed

seems like we're doubling up!:rant:

[Haole Girl]

36. Yep. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. No need for me to peruse the list.

I'm pretty much stuck at accepting Jesus of Nazareth as my personal lord and savior.

[Haole Girl]

37. I hope I didn't offend you...

I can be pretty hard on organized religion b/c of personal issues!

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. LOL! Not at all.

There is no reason for me to look at a new list of sins because I've already committed the unpardonable, unforgivable sin of being a non-believer. Anything else would just be grease on my slide to hell.

[siligut]

43. There is a slide!?!?

I knew hell was going to be fun! Everyone I know and most of those I love will be there and now that I know there will be a slide, well, color me damned.

[krispos42]

49. Yeah, it's a boiling-water slide...

Wheee!
Argh!
Wheee!
Owwww!
Wheee!

[siligut]

50. You go, I'll stay. nt

[LostinVA]

42. Heathen

:eyes:

[Generic Brad]

32. They missed one

My Catholic relatives also consider voting for a pro-choice candidate to be an unforgivable sin.

[Haole Girl]

38. No kidding! nt

[Fox Mulder]

39. I never paid any attention to the original seven deadly sins...

I break at least five of them daily.

Oh well. I knew I was going to hell.

[Iggo]

41. Is torture on there?

[Deep13]

46. Sorry, they're not going to ban their own practices.

Maybe they've lightened up in recent years, but that is only because they can no longer get away with it.

[Deep13]

47. So how come God did not put this stuff in the Bible?

Or why hasn't it been part of the cannon law since antiquity?