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OKIsItJustMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 10:00 PM
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Seven new deadly sins
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/mar/11/seven-new-deadly-sins-declared-by-the-vatican/

Seven new deadly sins

9:44a.m. 11 March 2008

Gluttony and Pride are out of vogue as Pollution and Being Rich step in as some of the new 'mortal sins' as updated by the Vatican. See full list below.

Times have changed and so have sins and sinners, according to the Pope's second-in-charge, Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, who this weekened spoke on modern evils, Reuters reports.

Genetic manipulation, drugs that 'weaken the mind and cloud intelligence,' and the imbalance between the rich and the poor have made the cut to be new sins punishable by an eternity of damnation in hellfire.

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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

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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 10:02 PM
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1. Lost me at the first two
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Dave_Fl_50 Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 10:03 PM
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2. 4 of 7 for me
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frebrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 10:09 PM
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3. Being Pope must be...
Edited on Mon Mar-10-08 10:10 PM by frebrd
the absolute dream job for a control freak like Ratso!

:rofl:
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 10:12 PM
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4. They copped out at 6 and 7.
Doesn't #5 already cover those?
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williesgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 10:24 PM
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5. The Vatican is guilty of #6 - excessive wealth
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 11:02 PM
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6. Naturally, forcing women into reproductive slavery
is priority #1 for those old boys in dresses.

Funny how using children for sexual gratification never made their list.
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