Thou shalt not commit a genetic experiment


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送交者: habpi 于 2008-03-12, 10:29:21:

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.

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=113822&in_page_id=34




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