The Vatican Declares that Polluting the Earth is Now a Sin

Pollute the Earth, Go to Hell.

The Vatican has deemed pollution and genetic manipulation sins. Reuters has it:

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.

“(Within bioethics) there are areas where we absolutely must denounce some violations of the fundamental rights of human nature through experiments and genetic manipulation whose outcome is difficult to predict and control,” he said.

The Vatican opposes stem cell research that involves destruction of embryos and has warned against the prospect of human cloning.

Girotti, in an interview headlined “New Forms of Social Sin,” also listed “ecological” offences as modern evils.

In recent months, Pope Benedict has made several strong appeals for the protection of the environment, saying issues such as climate change had become gravely important for the entire human race.

Under Benedict and his predecessor John Paul, the Vatican has become progressively “green”.

It has installed photovoltaic cells on buildings to produce electricity and hosted a scientific conference to discuss the ramifications of global warming and climate change, widely blamed on human use of fossil fuels.

Hey, here’s an idea for the Pope- how about telling your flock of billions to put on a fucking condom every now and then. Putting a few solar panels on your roof is a drop of a drop in the sea of impact the billions of breeding-like-rabbits Catholics have.

The upside to this is that Heaven will be free of oil executives, Republican Senators, and Madonna. Praise be to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Link [Reuters]

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