<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Anna Taylor <<a href="mailto:femmechakra@yahoo.ca">femmechakra@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Someone wrote "The seven social sins are":<br>
<br>
>1. "Bio ethical" violations such as birth control >2.<br>
"Morally dubious" experiments such as stem cell<br>
>research<br>
>3. Drug abuse<br>
>4. Polluting the environment<br>
>5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and<br>
>poor<br>
>6. Excessive wealth<br>
>7. Creating poverty<br>
</blockquote><div><br>1- This is a dogmatic point in the Catholic religion that will come to haunt them as<br>much as the Copernican blunder, and it will either contribute to the desintegration <br>of the religion in time, or they will recant it with muffled apology.<br>
<br>2- Ditto<br><br>3- This is an ideological point that is much harder to shake. The catholics have this<br>fetish with free will and self-determination. To act sinful under the influence of drugs it<br>is clear the person cant act moral while under effect of certain drugs, or when having<br>
drawback symptoms (junkies are incapable of moral behaviour - the addiction is too<br>severe) so the paleogoddist church HAS to include this dictum. Taking drugs means<br>surrendering free will to the dictates of the drug. In that regard the church regards<br>
drugs as direct competition.<br><br>4- Yah sure, the catholics, being a religion of the ages, has learned by now that<br>premature claims of Armageddon make you look dumb. The PR/strategy people of the<br>vatican have probably been whispering "GUYS, project judgement somewhere around<br>
when the sun has its red giant phase..." and now the council of bishops is stuck with<br>having to like *survive* on this planet. Plus the catholics target audience is dirt poor<br>people in the thirdworld who may suffer most from environmental collapse.<br>
<br>5- One would almost regard the catholics as moral in saying this.<br></div></div><br>6- I am not thinking about the wealth Bill Gates manifests, I am thinking more of<br>BLING; extravagance. The kind of wealth that generates envy and hatred - and<br>
terrorism!<br><br>7- Acting in such a fashion that people are marginalized or pushed into despair. What<br>has been happening in the Congo - rich companies wanting resources, and poor losers<br>getting mowed down in the process. Marketing considerations, clearly. <br>
<br>Catholicism is a product. Is it copyrighted?<br><br><br>