the New Seven Sins

well five out of seven ain't bad

Were their creative juices not flowing once they hit 5? I mean the last three could technically be grouped together.

here

These new sins are not as good as the old ones. They aren't catchy at all! any sin that can't be conveyed in one or maximum two words doesn't deserve to be on the list.

5, 6 and 7 are pretty much the same sin as well, or at least would VERY heavily overlap on a sin venn diagram.

xp yeah i guess they just wanted 7

number 2 is misleading because surely stem cell research is the only "morally dubious" experiment the vatican as a problem with? or has the pope spoken out against the stanford prison experiment or sending monkeys into space and i missed it?

it seems like most of these can be categorized into the original seven

I'm not sure where using birth control would fit in the original seven. But then, using birth control isn't much of a sin any way you slice it, so I'm not surprised.

David Mills: Wait, I thought all you did was kill innocent people.

John Doe: Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? A birth control man... a disgusting man who could barely impregnate a woman; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking his "Bioethical violations"; a man, who if you had sex with him, you wouldn't be able to contract an STD. After him, I picked the "morally dubious" scientist and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to stem cell research!

David Mills: Morally dubious?

John Doe: A woman...

David Mills: Morally dubious, John, like yourself?

John Doe: *interrupts* A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't abuse a drug. A polluter, an environment Polluter, actually! And let's not forget the contributer to widening divide between rich and poor!

John Doe: Become excessively wealthy, David. Become... a creator of poverty.

this is such weak pope sauce, the original seven deadlies are the classic seven deadlies, if you're gonna come with revisions you gotta come strong, not with some weak third deadly like "drug abuse," c'mon now pope

Holy See sucks at spinning latest political hokum as new deadly sins shockah!

In an interview with the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Archbishop Girotti said he thought the most dangerous areas for committing new types of sins lay in the fields of bio-ethics and ecology.

He also named abortion and paedophilia as two of the greatest sins of our times. The archbishop brushed off cases of sexual violence against minors committed by priests as "exaggerations by the mass media aimed at discrediting the Church".

fuck that prick

Well I sure know which one of these is my sin of choice.

any devout catholic who actually follows papal edicts already knows how the church feels about birth control, and most likely they aren't tinkering around with stem cells in their garage. rich people are above God and morality, and if you're gonna become a junkie you've probably already committed loads of other sins and were fucked ages ago, which basically means the Hot New Top 7 Sins will have the net effect of giving a whole bunch of people a very good reason to finally listen to scientists (re: pollution): they'll go to hell if they don't.

so, uh, basically thumbs up.

Holy See sucks at spinning latest political hokum as new deadly sins shockah!

See, though, the original 7 deadlies were likely a spin on the political hokum of their day too.