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Sloth, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and pride. Most of the fun things in life fall under one or more of these “deadly sins,” so it’s a bit hard to stop doing them for the promise of eternal bliss. Worry no longer, you’re in luck! The Vatican has made a new list of seven modern sins that will send you to hell. Genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing poverty, becoming obscenely wealthy and taking drugs are the new ones. These are so much easier to follow!
Genetic modification: who has the money for that? Experimenting on humans: it’s illegal so that one’s easy. But what about the animals? It’s ok to experiment on them? Polluting the environment: a bit harder to not do, but we’re trying our best here. That’s what we’re all about. Oo, do we get brownie points for that? Causing social injustice: most of us don’t really have the power to do this one so again, easy. Causing poverty: who does that? Besides politicians I mean. Becoming obscenely wealthy: again, pretty hard to do. What about being born obscenely wealthy? Is that ok? Taking drugs: That’s going be a toughie for the young people. And for old people if that includes prescription drugs and the like. I think we could use some clarification on this one.
All in all, I think I like these mortal sins better than the old ones. If I were a Catholic and believed this sort of thing, I might actually follow them.
