Vatican goes "green" with "new sins"

Thou shall not pollute. The Vatican has gone green saying climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race and told the faithful they should be aware of “new” sins such as causing environmental blight.

According to this report from Reuters, the Vatican has become progressively “green” installing photovoltaic cells on buildings to produce electricity and hosted a scientific conference to discuss the ramifications of global warming and climate change, widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels.

I guess the Vatican forgot to invite the other scientist who say the use of human fossil fuels have nothing to do with global warming or climate change.

Some of the other “new seven sins” are just as ridiculous. For instance causing poverty, how exactly does one cause poverty? Accumulating excessive wealth? The Catholic Church is one of the richest organizations in the world. In fact they have more money than most countries! So, what exactly is the definition of excessive wealth?

Anyways here is a list of the new seven:

· Genetic experimentation
· Tampering with the order of nature
· Pollution
· Social injustice
· Causing poverty
· Accumulating excessive wealth
· Drug abuse

Well at least they don’t come with punishments like the original seven sins put fourth by Pope Gregory in the 6th Century.

Here are the original sins and their punishments:

Pride Broken on the wheel
Envy Put in freezing water
Gluttony Forced to eat rats, toads and snakes
Lust Smothered in fire and brimstone
Anger Dismembered alive
Greed Put in cauldrons of boiling oil
Sloth Thrown in snake pits