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"Creating poverty" - since poverty=absence of wealth, can you actually create a negative ? Sin 8: Politicians lying while on the public payroll. Quoting rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>: > Seven More Sins, Thanks to Vatican > By Mike Nizza > Lust, gluttony, greed and the rest of the seven deadly sins gathered in the > 6th century will have to get used to a modern companion. A Vatican official > has articulated seven new categories of sin "due to the phenomenon of > globalization." > "While sin used to concern mostly the individual, today it has mainly a > social resonance," Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti told L'Osservatore Romano, > Vatican City's local paper. Bloomberg News parsed his remarks into a > clip-n-savable list: > 1. "Bioethical" violations such as birth control > 2. "Morally dubious" experiments such as stem cell research > 3. Drug abuse > 4. Polluting the environment > 5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor > 6. Excessive wealth > 7. Creating poverty > The message, according to a leading scholar on Catholic thought talking to > BBC News, was meant as a reality check to priests "not sufficiently attuned > to some of the real evils in our world." There is more to life than > following the Ten Commandments, it would seem. > The seven deadly sins served another purpose, too: inspiring artists from > Bosch to Balanchine. Can anyone picture a similar renaissance fueled by this > > new list. Or has it already happened? > > Rayilyn Brown > Board Member AZNPF > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson's Foundation > [log in to unmask] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn