Que Deus vos perdoe, meus filhos...

Já não bastavam os anos de perseguição que a Santa Madre Igreja fez ao pobre do Darwin, aquando a publicação d'"A Origem das Espécies" e do, ainda, "olhar de lado" a que são sujeitos todos os biólogos evolucionistas, surge agora a notícia de que fazer experiências em genética é, nada mais nada menos, um pecado mortal!! Isso mesmo, metido no mesmo saco que matar, roubar e outras coisinhas más!!
A que parece o senhor papa e os seus bispos decidiram juntar, aos sete já existentes, mais sete pecados mortais! Ah e tal vamos ao cinema...tá esgotado...então vamos jogar strip-poker...ah não que eu tou com as hemorróidas inflamadas e fica feio...então vamos inventar mais uns pecados mortais...
Pelo rumo que isto está a tomar daqui a uns anos a Inquisição está de volta, mas desta vez para queimar, não bruxas, mas cientistas na fogueira (acho que alguns também foram contemplados na altura da caça às bruxas)! Mas não faz mal, depois o Vaticano arrepende-se e manda erguer umas estátuas em nossa honra, 400 anos depois, como fez com o Galileu!!!


A notícia é a seguinte:

The Sin of Biology Lab
March 10, 2008
As Hsien-Hsien Lei points out, the Vatican has updated its list of deadly sins; there are now 14 instead of the original seven. According to the UK's Metro, the new sins include: genetic experimentation, tampering with the order of nature, pollution, social injustice, causing poverty, excessive wealth, and drug abuse. Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, said, "Today there are various new sins which concern the rights of the individual and society and above all these are in the field of bioethics."

Pope Benedict

The Roman Catholic church updated its list of mortal sins yesterday to include 21st century issues such as pollution and genetic experimentation.
The new list was announced after a week-long confession refresher course for priests. Traditionally, mortal sins are those which break the Ten Commandments and include murder and adultery.
According to the Catholic faith, they must be confessed to a priest and if not absolved or forgiven, will lead to a person's soul being condemned to hell.
But now genetic experimentation, tampering with the order of nature, pollution, social injustice, causing poverty, excessive wealth and drug abuse have been added.

Bishop Gianfranco Girotti is in charge of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican department which runs the confession refresher course.

He said: 'Today there are various new sins which concern the rights of the individual and society and above all these are in the field of bioethics.

'Within this, there are several fundamental violations of nature taking place – experiments, genetic manipulation, which are very difficult to control.

'Socially there is the field of drugs which weaken both intelligence and physically, leaving many youngsters outside the church circuit.

'Then elsewhere socially, we have inequality of wealth with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer, this in turns feeds an ever growing social injustice,' he added.