VATICAN CITY, Mar. 10, 2008 (Reuters) — Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.
The guidance came at the weekend when Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, the Vatican's number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance, spoke of modern evils.
Asked what he believed were today's "new sins," he told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that the greatest danger zone for the modern soul was the largely uncharted world of bioethics.
This is a perfect example of the authoritarian methods of the Church. While the Church Fathers may have very good points, why make this into a sin? A sin says who? Some group of old men with unknown training and believes who predictably parrot the views of the Church. Views that lead to the creation of sins that will no longer be sins when the full light of understanding is shown upon them. Of course the sins of the Church in its error will be rarely mentioned. Its far better to leave these things in the realm of normal human understanding than to enlist the punishment of God on your side of the argument.
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