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Thou shalt not kid thyself. The Vatican unveils fresh new sins, as the world just rolls its eyes.
SF Gate ^ | March 19, 2008 | Mark Morford, Columnist

Posted on 03/19/2008 6:50:58 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

Is your name on the list?

This just in: If you're an obscenely wealthy drug-dealing pedophile stem-cell researcher who drives a Hummer and doesn't recycle, you are totally going to hell. Oh please, like you didn't already know.

Hey, the Catholic Church wouldn't lie, mister. The Big Book o' Deadly Sins apparently has a whole new addendum and it looks like it ain't just gluttony and lust and murder and hot porn and witchcraft and coveting thy neighbor's way cool Flickr photo stream anymore. That stuff is for wimps. Serfs. Lutherans.

The Vatican is trying to get serious. Modern. Hip, even. Indeed, Sins 2.0 now includes taking "mind-altering" drugs and polluting the planet and creating poverty and hoarding excessive wealth and messing around with genetics and did you not see the grim expression on the face of that Vatican official when he announced the new aberrations? Totally serious. Deadly. I mean, the scales were flaking right off his face. And if you look closely, you can see God right there, standing just behind the podium like a hulking Dick Cheney figure, nodding gloomily in agreement. Mmm, the Vatican. It's like Disneyland for arthritic masochists.

Hey, don't get mad at me. These are just the rules. I don't make them up, I just report the facts. Like this one: Do you have a healthy Adderall/Zoloft/Budweiser addiction...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: catholicchurch; chuckletalk; liberalmediaspin; markmorford; sins; yawn
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1 posted on 03/19/2008 6:50:58 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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I did not comment at first, as think I may have committed a sin just in posting this.........
2 posted on 03/19/2008 6:53:48 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay

Morford commenting on the RCC is the equivalent of Obama commenting on military strategy. In other words, a 100% lack of standing.


3 posted on 03/19/2008 6:55:05 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: fight_truth_decay

I was very fond of the old sins


4 posted on 03/19/2008 6:55:20 PM PDT by woofie
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To: fight_truth_decay

I loved the excessive wealth one...anyone here been to the Vatican and St. Peters Basilica?


5 posted on 03/19/2008 6:56:20 PM PDT by Bob J ("For every 1000 hacking at the branches of evil, one is striking at it's root.")
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To: fight_truth_decay

What a POS this author is. I bet he’s gay and ravaged with aides.


6 posted on 03/19/2008 6:57:19 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: mimaw

I’m still waiting for the big one to rid the world of this garbage city and it’s vile occupants.


7 posted on 03/19/2008 6:59:02 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: pissant

..or could it be Morford’s muse might just be the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?


8 posted on 03/19/2008 6:59:23 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: woofie

ROTFLOL!!!! Comment of the eve!


9 posted on 03/19/2008 6:59:54 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: fight_truth_decay

Now thats funny...


10 posted on 03/19/2008 7:00:07 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: Bob J

...and that’s after taking an oath of poverty.


11 posted on 03/19/2008 7:00:24 PM PDT by singfreedom
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To: fight_truth_decay

Morford’s muse is more likely a gerbil.


12 posted on 03/19/2008 7:00:37 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: fight_truth_decay

I am dumber for having wasted the 5+ minutes it took to wade through that guy’s dribble that somehow made it into newsprint. Wow. He gets paid for that garbage?


13 posted on 03/19/2008 7:00:42 PM PDT by Proud2BAmerican
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To: fight_truth_decay

The Vatican’s sins are no worse than the Democrats list of deadly sins ... except maybe for the pedophilia and homsexuality.


14 posted on 03/19/2008 7:00:55 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: mimaw
Did you mean “by aides” or “with AIDS?”
15 posted on 03/19/2008 7:01:49 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Terrorists, Demonrats(sic) and ACLU lawyers are always in season)
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To: woofie

I’m wondering if there’s any ‘grandfathered-in’ clause in the new sins. (I think what I just wrote may be a sin)


16 posted on 03/19/2008 7:03:04 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: hosepipe

This report is not an official publication of the Catholic Church. It is a memo written by an influential member of the heirarchy but it is not church policy. The fact that this article appears indicates a very serious lack of understanding of Catholic Doctrine.


17 posted on 03/19/2008 7:03:04 PM PDT by AZFolks
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[ rford commenting on the RCC is the equivalent of Obama commenting on military strategy. In other words, a 100% lack of standing. ]

Yeah Yeah that was funny Pisser.. just the same..

18 posted on 03/19/2008 7:03:09 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: fight_truth_decay
lol.....I started reading this without looking at the author.

A few sentences in I thought to myself, "What idiot wrote this?"

Proving to myself that given a completely objective chance, I still find Morford to be a moron.

19 posted on 03/19/2008 7:03:11 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Aevery_Freeman

AIDS.


20 posted on 03/19/2008 7:05:24 PM PDT by mimaw
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