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Vatican lists new sins, including pollution
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080310/ts_nm/pope_sins_dc
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.
The guidance came at the weekend when Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, the Vatican's number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance, spoke of modern evils.
Asked what he believed were today's "new sins," he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the greatest danger zone for the modern soul was the largely uncharted world of bioethics.
"(Within bioethics) there are areas where we absolutely must denounce some violations of the fundamental rights of human nature through experiments and genetic manipulation whose outcome is difficult to predict and control," he said.
The Vatican opposes stem cell research that involves destruction of embryos and has warned against the prospect of human cloning.
Girotti, in an interview headlined "New Forms of Social Sin," also listed "ecological" offences as modern evils.
In recent months, Pope Benedict has made several strong appeals for the protection of the environment, saying issues such as climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race.
Under Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, the Vatican has become progressively "green."
It has installed photovoltaic cells on buildings to produce electricity and hosted a scientific conference to discuss the ramifications of global warming and climate change, widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels.
Girotti, who is number two in the Vatican "Apostolic Penitentiary," which deals with matter of conscience, also listed drug trafficking and social and economic injustices as modern sins.
But Girotti also bemoaned that fewer and fewer Catholics go to confession at all.
He pointed to a study by Milan's Catholic University that showed that up to 60 percent of Catholic faithful in Italy stopped going to confession.
In the sacrament of Penance, Catholics confess their sins to a priest who absolves them in God's name.
But the same study by the Catholic University showed that 30 percent of Italian Catholics believed that there was no need for a priest to be God's intermediary and 20 percent felt uncomfortable talking about their sins to another person.
virtuoso:
You are going to think this is crazy and I do to, although it seems some of the craziest ideas have some truth to them but from what I have gathered, this idea of a one world government, would also lead to a one world religion and the religion would be the worshipping of the environment.
Turf Hitta:
If you need evidence that religion is a man made mass control device designed to keep the elite ruling class in power, look no further. How can a man just all of a sudden decide to write new sins? I thought Holy Law was supposed to be devine. Come to find out any asshole in the Vatican can just decide to make up new rules as we go.
Australian Bastard:
Word.
But I find it all too easy to look at Pope and UN and say "ooooh One World Government soon!" :laugh:
We have enough people fooled by zee Golden Calf anyway....
Why do you need a one world government when country's governments co-operate already?
Why do you need a one world religion when world opinion can and is swayed even more effectively by a paradigm of media, religion, spin, government speak and culture ?
But what about the anti-christ and the rebulding of Solomon?
IMO, the "anti-christ" is a philosophical idea...its a battle within and without yourself that has been happening day to day, since the dawn of time, its the idea that knowing that what you know, having worked so far through your life discerning what is good and bad in the inner and outter world, you would throw it all away........
.....having known God, would you then actively ignore and disown him and allow yourself to be a vehicle of blasphemy?
Think about it, the idea behind the anit-christ is he will dominate the physical realm and shall therefore work top-down to oppress the inner spiritual life, to make you forget and ignore the Godhood in you and only see god in the representation of the physical...everything that matters is then only considerable in the physical realm and everything else has no bearing and is not important. By controlling the physical, what is important is only what they tell you is and our own physical urges (greed, want, egotism, desire) take priority over the infinite sea of existence within, because they are all that is important. The warning with Revelations is that all this shit is intensifying...
People in this modern day and age have made the anit-christ into a neat little story, they have made movies out of it (End of Days, etc) in movies people can see the bad guy (Satan) and they can see the good guy (Arnie) when infact its much more personal than that... Satan's origin of power does not stem from the physical realm of mankind, it actually only resides within, its only because you allow it to manifest in the physical, so seeing Satan walking around New York fucking women and murdering muthafuckers is reinforcing the idea that evil exists without in the physical, when ifact it's origin is within you the muthafucker sitting there watching the movie, knowing that now you can do something about. Instead if you didn't know you would walk away with the subconsciously implanted Hollywood fear.
What I say is true..because if people would bother to feel any understanding towards themselves, other people or celebrities for that matter(who instead we just laugh at and degrade for their own personnal demons) , you would understand that nothing physical will make you happy if you are not already happy within yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/v/iXXoCSCATtY
QuietTruth:
--- Quote from: Turf Hitta on March 10, 2008, 02:18:10 PM ---If you need evidence that religion is a man made mass control device designed to keep the elite ruling class in power, look no further. How can a man just all of a sudden decide to write new sins? I thought Holy Law was supposed to be devine. Come to find out any asshole in the Vatican can just decide to make up new rules as we go.
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Well, exactly, who does he think he is. He can't be doin' that. What he can do is change the laws of his Churches. Which he damn sure should do. Let Priest's marry!
Does this nigga not know The Bible does not just apply to Catholics. :laugh:
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