Pope Benedict in hypocrisy shock (and confirms he is Catholic)
Posted by gimpy on March 10, 2008
The pope Vatican has updated the seven deadly sins with a more hip and happening modern version. These updated sins of the modern era as are follows
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Environmental pollution
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Genetic manipulation
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Accumulating excessive wealth
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Inflicting poverty
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Drug trafficking and consumption
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Morally debatable experiments
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Violation of fundamental rights of human nature
Now it is easy to point out that the Vatican is excessively wealthy, the Catholic Church abuses the fundamental rights of women and Jesus was known to perform miracles when wanting a booze fix, I’m more interested in the sins of ‘genetic manipulation’ and ‘morally debatable experiments’ given that I do this on an almost daily basis. I am also an ex-Catholic who once upon a time would have considered the Pope’s musings with more respect than I do now.
Instead of an in depth look at the ethics of genetic manipulation, animal experiments and human drug trials I will just point out a few facts to His Holiness. Pope Benedict suffers from ill health and is on medication for high blood pressure which is essential for his continued survival. It is certain that the development of drugs to deal with this condition involve genetic manipulation and morally debatable experiments, searching PubMed results in nearly 1000 results for transgenics relating to blood pressure and around 40,000 results for trials involving blood pressure.
If Pope Benedict has an ounce of sincerity he would immediately cease taking his medication which undoubtedly breaches at least two of his updated deadly sins in its production. However, the Pope has a get out clause, Confession, this allows God to forgive his sins and reset his sin score to zero. So how often does the Pope confess his sins?
May I humbly suggest that he does it each time he pops one of those pills, developed by the sinful actions of scientists, that keep him alive.
March 10, 2008 at 7:43 pm
How many times does the Pope sin in the average week? Shouldn’t it, ideally, be zero times? If he can’t manage it, what chance do the rest of us have?
March 11, 2008 at 2:05 am
As far as I can tell he’s probably committing sins ‘genetic manipulation’, ‘morally debatable experiments’, and ‘drug consumption’ daily, not to mention contributing to ‘violation of fundamental rights of human nature’ by prolonging his life with said drugs.
BTW, who does the pope confess to?
March 11, 2008 at 7:52 am
In other words, Italians aren’t coming to us for confession because they aren’t sinning enough so let’s make up some new bullshit sins so that we don’t increasingly seem like an irrelevance in the modern world.
March 11, 2008 at 9:09 am
It is absolutely incredible that such a powerful man can be so idiotic, nonsensical, backward, offensive [fill in your own long list of words here].
However, I am slightly disappointed you didn’t blog another huge gaffe on the part of el papa:
“He also named abortion and paedophilia as two of the greatest sins of our times. The archbishop brushed off cases of sexual violence against minors committed by priests as “exaggerations by the mass media aimed at discrediting the Church”
Sure. Mass media nonsense. It was only a handful of bishops. And the kids were annoying probably protestants who were asking for it.
It makes me seeeeeeeeeethe.
March 11, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I’m really really really not fond of the Pope, but it is probably possible to criticize something from which you benefit or even depend on and trying to find a better way to resolve this issue. Not sure if he is that kind of person though or if this is the Catholic hypocrite who is possessing his immortal soul.
March 11, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Ugh, I shouldn’t post at this time of the day… I meant to say: “Not sure if he is that kind of person though or if this is the Catholic hypocrite who is possessing his immortal soul speaking out of him.”
March 11, 2008 at 11:43 pm
It was NOT THE POPE that said this. It was Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti.
March 12, 2008 at 8:55 am
Your Grace is quite correct and the post has been amended accordingly. Nevertheless my points remain.
Dr* T what percentage of priests abuse? Nobody knows, has anyone collected figures. I have some sympathy with the Church on this point although their shameless denials and inadequacies in dealing with it are despicable.
March 12, 2008 at 11:22 am
I have no sympathy with the church on this point. Shameless denials, cover-ups, out of court settlements and conspiracy theorying that the mass media exaggerated it to discredit the church. I’m sure the victims will be comforted all of by that.
Anyway, doesn’t the Catholic Church run the illuminati and hence the mass media?
March 12, 2008 at 11:23 am
(and apologies for derailing…..)
March 13, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Meine Freundin aus dem Bayerischen Vaterland (from where Pope Benedict comes) tells me Ratzinger was regarded (even among the non-religious) as unusually intellectually able for a Bishop (this is back in the late 70s and early 80s when he was Archbishop of Munich). And prior to that he was a full Professor of Theology at the Univ of Tubingen, not something you would make it to as a dimwit. So he is almost certainly smarter than his Archbishops. But then it is not clear that being intellectually bright is that much help to religious leaders.
The Catholic Church has a definite problem with science and medicine, both of which advance at much too fast a pace for the glacial speed with which religious doctrine changes. Their other major problem, as ever, is sex.
Issues like IVF, contraception, condoms and HIV, and the basis of sexual preference, all of which incorporate both sex AND science/medicine, cause total intellectual and doctrinal overload. It is like asking an old computer the square root of minus one.