More Religious BS (News) (Commentary)

The notion that church teachings come from the word of God is mostly a fallacy - church teachings come from humans who interpret what they read (which was also written by humans) and then pass these interpretations along as Gospel. Here's just another example of humans expanding religious dogma - and another example of why you shouldn't bother buying into any of it.

From The Times (London) Online...

Drug pushers, the obscenely rich, environmental polluters and "manipulative" genetic scientists beware - you may be in danger of losing your mortal soul unless you repent.

After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation. The list, published yesterday in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's "securalised world" and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.

The Catholic Church divides sins into venial, or less serious, sins and mortal sins, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession and penitence. It holds mortal sins to be "grave violations of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes", including murder, contraception, abortion, perjury, adultery and lust.