First, let me say this - *GROAN*

Vatican Lists Seven Social Sins, Including Drug Abuse

The seven social 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

They have just undone a lot of good work done by AIDS educators with number 1.

The old stuff ... whatever.  Excessive wealth is a social sin?  Somebody should let the Vatican know!  Puh-leeeeeeeeze!  Isn't the Catholic Church the wealthiest religious sect in the world?  Give me a break.

LOL! Good point!

eughh, it manages to be preachy, self-righteous and hypocritical all at once.

Birth control... why are they still fighting this battle?

Research into stem cells isn't "morally dubious", they can now do it without use of a foetus, and even if they do still use a foetus, it's not like they kidnapped a pregnant woman so they could abort her and do evil experiments on her dead baby - they're only using the aborted cells that would have just died anyway.

Drug abuse is perhaps something to avoid, but hardly a sin.

Pollution... again, to be avoided, but a sin? I guess this one could do some good if it meant the religious lot in America put some pressure on the politicians to clean up the place, but I'm not going to hold my breath for that one.

Interesting two here (the rich/poor divide and creating poverty ones)... I'd hazard a guess that one thing contributing to both of these problems is lack of birth control - babies are expensive. Funny that.. saying in the same breath 2 things that contradict each other, and from a religious man too.. who'd have thought it 

And whoever managed to put "excessive wealth" on a proclamation of sins by the Vatican, and do it with a straight face, deserves either an acting award or a lynching.

LOL!! Funny!

I was watching a documentary on tv last night about India and it's booming economy - Seems that one of their largest growing industries is the biomedical one, basically because they have no legal restrictions there. Seems that it doesn't cause any fuss among the (largely non-christian) population there

Jesus and Mo covered it, making the same point you guys did: http://www.jesusandmo.net/2008/03/11/sins/

dek is very tickled

If I commit any social sins and they come to the attention of Mrs Dent then I'm in the doghouse.  Did I ever mention my Dog theory...?

You have done to me, but it might be well worth it to explain it here.

At least I'll be then able to use OMD without having to explain it all the time!

Well it is very simple.  When the book of Genesis was being written down for the first time the writer made one serious error in the first line.  They swapped the letter D and G around and wrote down God instead of Dog...

This means that all the Abraham based religions should be arguing about what breed they are rather than what religion...

OMD!!

hehehehe

Very Funny ... I like it.

You gonna join me in saying OMD now?

I just might, at that!

actually you should be saying "Oh My LOTU!"

OMLOTU!!

OMD!!

hmmm.... I pick OMD

OML!

But that could be taken as Oh My Lord?

No?

hehe maybe. Okay, so OMLOTU is too long. I often say "Oh My Darwin!". I guess that's OMD as well, yeah?

Take the South Park route - Oh My Science!

Oh yeah! Oh my Darwin fits!!

hehehe And I like Oh my science

I wonder - do any of you say 'oh my god' in RL, as you speak?

Occasionally. I usually then think "damn, should have swapped out 'God' for 'Science' "

If I'm mentally switched on, I sometimes go for "Oh Your God"

I say "Jesus Fucking Christ" a lot.

I wonder where that saying originally comes from?

*bad mental image*

Terrible Cam...

... so "Fucking" was in actual fact, his middle name?