[ExI] Seven deadly social sins

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Anna Taylor <femmechakra at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Someone wrote "The seven social sins are":
>
> >1. "Bio ethical" 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
>

1- This is a dogmatic point in the Catholic religion that will come to haunt
them as
much as the Copernican blunder, and it will either contribute to the
desintegration
of the religion in time, or they will recant it with muffled apology.

2- Ditto

3- This is an ideological point that is much harder to shake. The catholics
have this
fetish with free will and self-determination. To act sinful under the
influence  of drugs it
is clear the person cant act moral while under effect of certain drugs, or
when having
drawback symptoms (junkies are incapable of moral behaviour - the addiction
is too
severe) so the paleogoddist church HAS to include this dictum. Taking drugs
means
surrendering free will to the dictates of the drug. In that regard the
church regards
drugs as direct competition.

4- Yah sure, the catholics, being a religion of the ages, has learned by now
that
premature claims of Armageddon make you look dumb. The PR/strategy people of
the
vatican have probably been whispering "GUYS, project judgement somewhere
around
when the sun has its red giant phase..." and now the council of bishops is
stuck with
having to like *survive* on this planet. Plus the catholics target audience
is dirt poor
people in the thirdworld who may suffer most from environmental collapse.

5- One would almost regard the catholics as moral in saying this.

6- I am not thinking about the wealth Bill Gates manifests, I am thinking
more of
BLING; extravagance. The kind of wealth that generates envy and hatred - and
terrorism!

7- Acting in such a fashion that people are marginalized or pushed into
despair. What
has been happening in the Congo - rich companies wanting resources, and poor
losers
getting mowed down in the process. Marketing considerations, clearly.

Catholicism is a product. Is it copyrighted?
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