Slog - Comments on Sick Mothers, Aspirin Users and Convenience Store Clerks, Repent! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien Apparently lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride are now only half the pitfalls that could send you straight into the fiery maw of hell. Here's the story earlier this week from Fox News. After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalization. The list, published yesterday in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the “decreasing sense of sin” in today’s “secularized world” and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession. … “You offend God not only by... Copyright 2008 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:53:59 -0800 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:45:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by J.R. New sins are so much more fun than those boring old sins.

]]> J.R. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968069 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:56:51 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Oh, hell, if arinking was a sin. they'd have to throw out the entire priesthood.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968114 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:08:33 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle So, is it a sin to steal money from the RNC as their treasurer just did?

I mean, you're taking away money from evil, so that must be good, right?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968142 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968142 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:18:51 -0800 Comment by Giffy Looks like Dan has another book to write!

]]> Giffy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968153 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968153 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:24:01 -0800 Comment by Vince The Vatican is what it is.. a simple minded spokesman for simple minded people. If they want to make scientific research a "sin" then they will. But it will continue anyway despite them and any country led by ignorant fools, ours for example, will only fall more and more behind those that ignore the pope and his simple minded fools. They are and always will be trying to create another dark age. And they always use the threat of their imaginary hell on the simple minded fools who listen to them.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968160 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968160 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:25:24 -0800 Comment by Bison Help me out here: Endonuclease reactions = mortal sin or venial sin?

]]> Bison http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968227 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:53:35 -0800 Comment by Jason So.... groping choirboys is still on the 'okay' list?

]]> Jason http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968270 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968270 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:17:52 -0800 Comment by wbrproductions a $9 hamburger is a fucking sin. Unless its a lambburger.

]]> wbrproductions http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968517 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968517 Religion Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:00:32 -0800 Comment by LMSW Those commandments must be getting heavy.

]]> LMSW http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968658 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/sick_mothers_aspirin_users_and_convenien#c968658 Religion Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:45:59 -0800