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Is working with dictators and totalitarian regimes a sin yet ?

Just when you thought they left Vatican II behind.

genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, taking drugs

Are you kidding me?  I had to double check that it wasn't an Onion link.

Carrying out experiments on humans?  I

Tallgeese wrote:

I think marijuana already counted under "sloth"...

Other than that, nice list.

Half the people in America fall nicely into this category with or without pot. Seen any skinny kids lately?

How is "causing" a qualifier?

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Tallgeese wrote:

How is "causing" a qualifier?

Because it requires direct participation in something that makes people poor. It narrows it way down.

A more ethical approach, it seems to me, would be to include profiting from poverty and social injustice. Hell, just being indifferent to it.

Um, these aren't the only sins. The concept, as I mentioned above, of the "Deadly Sins" is that they are the root of many other sins. By causing, for example, poverty, you allow others to profit from it or be indifferent to it. You also cause the crime and despair and self-destructive behavior that is often seen in impoverished areas.

Tallgeese wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Tallgeese wrote:

How is "causing" a qualifier?

Because it requires direct participation in something that makes people poor. It narrows it way down.

A more ethical approach, it seems to me, would be to include profiting from poverty and social injustice. Hell, just being indifferent to it.

Um, these aren't the only sins. The concept, as I mentioned above, of the "Deadly Sins" is that they are the root of many other sins. By causing, for example, poverty, you allow others to profit from it or be indifferent to it. You also cause the crime and despair and self-destructive behavior that is often seen in impoverished areas.

I agree, but those analyses are only reached through deduction; I'd prefer it if they were spelled out. They're certainly not as clear and to-the-point as the real sins are.

They were quoting him from the Vatican newspaper, but I couldn't find anything in English.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

They were quoting him from the Vatican newspaper, but I couldn't find anything in English.

It might have been the Vatican Onion anyway.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

"Recycle or go to hell," sez Rome

The "sins of yesteryear" - sloth, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and pride - have a "rather individualistic dimension", he told the Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper.

The new seven deadly, or mortal, sins are designed to make worshippers realise that their vices have an effect on others as well.

"The sins of today have a social resonance as well as an individual one," said Mgr Girotti. "In effect, it is more important than ever to pay attention to your sins."

According to Roman Catholic doctrine, mortal sins are a "grave violation of God's law" and bring about "eternal death" if unrepented by the act of confession.

They are far more serious than venial sins, which impede a soul's progress in the exercise of virtue and moral good.

Mgr Girotti said genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing poverty, becoming obscenely wealthy and taking drugs were all mortal sins.

How many of these sins have you committed today?

They seem overly specific, and overlap existing sins. Becoming obscenely wealthy could be a sign of greed already. Why be so specific. Also, what does obscenely wealthy mean? How about moderately wealthy? How about if you're obscenely wealthy but fight social injustice and poverty? What if in doing so though you create pollution?
And what does causing poverty mean? Also taking drugs? What are defined as drugs? Aspriin are drugs. Is that a mortal sin. Polluting the environment? We do that simply by being human. One can be greener or engage in cleaner fuels, but simply by living in amodern society and having modernities we are creating garbage and using energy, both of which contribute to teh  pollution of the environment.
These are dumb

Aspirin's a venal sin. . . like masturbation.

mind in the gutter. . .