It's official!!! Bush and Cheney are going straight to hell

[CatWoman]

Drug pushers, the obscenely rich, environmental polluters and “manipulative” genetic scientists beware – you may be in danger of losing your mortal soul unless you repent.

After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation. The list, published yesterday in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the “decreasing sense of sin” in today’s “securalised world” and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession.

The Catholic Church divides sins into venial, or less serious, sins and mortal sins, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession and penitence.

It holds mortal sins to be “grave violations of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes”, including murder, contraception, abortion, perjury, adultery and lust.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell”.

Although there is no definitive list of mortal sins, many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or capital vices laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Dante in The Inferno: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride.

Christians are exhorted instead to adhere to the seven holy virtues: chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3517050.ece

[murielm99]

1. I'm going to hell too, then.

Contraception? Lust?

Even sloth, envy and pride could be added to the list for me or anyone else.

But contraception? That's a "sin" I advocate. They are always out to get women.

[HockeyMom]

3. Even worse

My husband got a vasectomy. Not just contraception, but "self mutiliation" on top of it. :eyes:

I wonder if having your ears pierced counts as "self mutiliation" in Rome's book? Imagine all the women, and men, going to hell for that one??????

[DinahMoeHum]

2. You know what the 8th deadly sin is, don't you?

PIZZA !!! :P:P:P

One!
Pride-thou shalt not have pride in thy neighbor

Two!
Coveting-thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife

Three!
Lust-thou shalt not lust after thy neighbor's wife

Four!
Anger-do not be angry with thy neighbor's wife

Five!
Gluttony-do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn

Six!
Envy-do not envy thy neighbor's wife

Seven!
Sloth-do not be a slob

- Jimmy Buffett, et.al. Bank of Bad Habits

:P:P:P

[dflprincess]

4. What about my neighbor's husband?

I don't see anything that says I can't lust after him. :evilgrin:

[fascisthunter]

5. It's Been Official for Some Time Now

that they are both evil psychopaths.

[opihimoimoi]

6. There ya are....i just was askin for ya....

Just returned from HELL....the Devil was asking whats taking so long for Bush and Cheney to git down there...