Taken from NY Times
A Vatican official has articulated seven new categories of sin “due to the phenomenon of globalization.”
They are:
- Creating poverty
- Excessive wealth
- Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
- Polluting the environment
- Drug abuse
- “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research
- “Bioethical” violations such as birth control
Well, it’s about time that this is officially a sin!
Thoughts?
I started posting my feelings about those statements I got tired though, I’ll try to post them tomorrow.
When I first heard of them, I though “yup, yup, yup, yup, huh? , hm, ah” … after actually thinking about what has been said I feel differently.
The Vatican thinks it’s loosing grip, so it creates more rules. I don’t understand why Catholicism can’t rationalise like most other mainstream religions and adapt their views to accommodate the changing world. Doesn’t mean giving up the fundamental practices of the religion.
Birth control is now a sin? What burning bush told the Pope that one? It’s fairly obvious that over-populating the planet will create more poverty, exploitation of wealth and pollution, which are all now ‘sins’.
There are some good points – especially about excessive wealth which I believe should be much more closely monitored – but enough is enough.
The first 5 I totally agree with but not so much the last two.
Stem cell research; although I’m not totally for “playing God” and all that shabam, I think stem cell research is an advantage scientifically and medically for human beings. It has the ability to save lives and cure diseases in the future which we will need if our planet continues to head the direction it is heading.
Birth control; I agree with Lil up there, if we don’t use birth control, the world will be over-populated which will contribute to a number of problems. I think not using birth control, especially when you know you’re not ready to have a baby yet you still have sex, is a sin.
And what is “officiating” more sins going to do? I fail to how this would drastically change how humans go about their lives/the world. So this and this are sins, according the the Catholic church. And???
Conversing with lover:
Chris: so
Chris: 14 sins now?
Helga: I find it… pointless
Helga: Whats it going to do
Chris: more as guidelines to priests
Chris: they should have put molesting kids in there
^^ good one
Excessive wealth: oh spare me. So what? They worked hard and earned money… and didn’t donate their winning to the Church.
THIS is why I decided not to be religious anymore. It’s unfair: why should you have to renounce to a lifetime of earnings, just because they’re (zomg) worldly possessions. Most people have earned these things.
And birth control?? What the?? So we should just pop kids out, regardless if we are able to provide for them?
It makes me laugh at the hypocrisy with the church; you’ll often find them the places of grandeur as well as places to worship and then they preach about “excessive wealth”. Actually, I do not have a problem with excessive wealth — if the person has worked hard to get where they are, why shouldn’t they reap the benefits? That isn’t to say that they shouldn’t give to others but they don’t have to.
The subject of birth control and Catholics makes me weep; our population is increasing exponentially and the more birth control used the better. Surely they’d rather that than thousands of children being unprovided for? Perhaps not.
I do despair of some religions when they fail to become progressive in their nature.
Birth control a sin? My ass! I don’t wanna bring unhappy children to this world to later having them converted to emos just because their parents (meaning me) didn’t want them.
These people have too much time in their hands and they know they’re “losing the battle” against people leaving the church, atheism, agnostics and all that.
And by making things a sin, do they think they’ll stop them from happening?
Hmm… I had a really similar reaction. I don’t understand the connection between birth control and globalization, I thought the idea was that since the world is getting smaller that everyone should share similar means of living. But then you look at any country other than what is considered “industrialized” and birth control is hardly widespread, same goes for stem cell and medical research. Was the official just marking the sins of the 21st century, because I don’t see the connection between the last 3 and globalization.
birth control is now a sin. wow. i’m going to hell for living responsibly and CONTROLLING THE DAMN POPULATION! i understand that the catholic belief is you’re not supposed to have sex unless it’s for a purpose, i.e. starting a family, right? but i’m sorry, i find that completely ludicrous. i mean, ok, 1. people have sex. we’re animals too, y’know? 2. if we’re GONNA have sex (because really, it’s going to happen, even the most devout catholics do it, although some… are strict about it, whatever, you get it) at least do it responsibly. sex without a condom or another type of birth control if you’re not ready to start a family is just dumb. i was raised in a catholic family but i don’t agree with all that crap. i don’t believe in organized religion or it thinking it has a right to run our lives. it’s not far short from an all out cult.
The Vatican can _______ my ________.
I love what you did to your “footer”, by the way :3
Umm….to Catholics birth control has always been a sin. If you are Catholic you are not allowed to use birth control of any form. So that one isn’t really new.
Catholicism, 2000 years of death and violence! Those things are just as ridiculous as the “old” seven sins. Where would we be without lust, for example? Nowhere, there wouldn’t be any people on earth.