Recycle or Burn!!!!

Xerxes

Strange, I thought the "Good Book" only mentioned 10 of them. 

Those were the Ten Commandments.  Odd, isn't it?  How God never mentioned anything about "additional sins" - old ones or new ones? But then, I remember a lecture from a priest when I was in high school going on about how wearing patent leather shoes was a sin because the boys might be able to see the reflection of our underwear in our shoes.  Umm.  It was an all girls school, so who do you suppose was really looking for a reflection?

Joyce

fuzzy_dogs_mom

I was in high school going on about how wearing patent leather shoes was a sin because the boys might be able to see the reflection of our underwear in our shoes. 

no....way....he did not really say this? OH dear I am LAUGHING....sheeeehooozibah, is that funny!

rwbeagles

no....way....he did not really say this? OH dear I am LAUGHING....sheeeehooozibah, is that funny!

Yes  .... way. We were also instructed to avoid restaurants with white tablecloths lest it make the boys think of bed sheets and to make sure we carried a telephone directory with on dates in case we wound up in a crowded car and had to sit on some dude's lap. It was responding out loud to these types things that very nearly got me expelled more than a few times.

Joyce

Oh Joyce....stoppit...I am laughing soo hard. Telephone book????....tablecloths??....

fuzzy_dogs_mom

We were also instructed to avoid restaurants with white tablecloths lest it make the boys think of bed sheets

Heaven help you if you ended up in the hospital with a male doctor!  

And those nighties that don't close behind you....OH DEAR

rwbeagles

Oh Joyce....stoppit...I am laughing soo hard. Telephone book????....tablecloths??....

Gina, see if you can find a move from 1985 called "Heaven Help Us."  It's about life in a Catholic boys school and it it so right on. I nearly died laughing ... and there is nothing in that movie that wasn't going on in Catholic schools then.

Joyce

fuzzy_dogs_mom

be able to see the reflection of our underwear

You would not believe that lenghts teenage boys would go to to get a peek of the white cotton panties that the girls wore underneath their uniforms.  Different era before the age of the internet.  The Sears catalog was edited before I could look at it.  I still remember a girl in French class that would flash a little (I think on purpose).  All the boys would sit on the opposite side of the room for her during class (the seating was divided facing each other with the teacher in the middle). 

I read this book as a young woman Joyce and it so sounds like you are quoting from it. It's really a funny, funny book.

BOOK LINK

fuzzy_dogs_mom

rwbeagles

no....way....he did not really say this? OH dear I am LAUGHING....sheeeehooozibah, is that funny!

Yes  .... way. We were also instructed to avoid restaurants with white tablecloths lest it make the boys think of bed sheets and to make sure we carried a telephone directory with on dates in case we wound up in a crowded car and had to sit on some dude's lap. It was responding out loud to these types things that very nearly got me expelled more than a few times.

Joyce

Joyce - did you go to Regina High School too!  LOL  Yep, all girl Catholic school education here too and yes Joyce is tell the truth.

Looks like a funny book.  Haven't heard of that one, but I may pick it up one of these days.

Joyce

mrstjohnson

Joyce - did you go to Regina High School too!  LOL  Yep, all girl Catholic school education here too and yes Joyce is tell the truth.

Nope.  Cathedral Girls' High in San Diego - long since closed up and merged with a boys high school somewhere else.

Joyce

fuzzy_dogs_mom

Cathedral Girls' High in San Diego

Interesting.  My brother went to St. Augustine HS.  I moved before entering HS in San Diego but went to St Charles Academy for Grade school.

timsdat

Interesting.  My brother went to St. Augustine HS.  I moved before entering HS in San Diego but went to St Charles Academy for Grade school.

Are you serious???  We used to go to Saints football and  basketball games all the time.  And ... I went to St. Charles Academy for first grade.  By second grade they had build Sacred Heart Academy in Ocean Beach where I lived, so I transferred over to that one. What a small world.  Depending on when your brother was at St. Augustine, he could have some veerrry interesting tales to tell.

Joyce

Ok, the whole "going to hell" thing is totally wrong.  First of all, everyone is going to hell, weather they recycle or not.  It is only God's grace that saves us, not confessions.  The new testament covers this area of our lives.

However, the biblical law is useful for us on this earth.  Most of the old testament did not talk about how to get to heaven, but how to live on earth.  In the old testament eternal life was mentioned so little that there was an ongoing debate on whether there was an afterlife.  The big oponents in the days of Jesus were the Pharasees and Sadjusees.(sp?)

Anyways, so what did the old testament say?  Well, we have been discussing this lately.  It can basically be summed up in the 10 commandments, but if we want to condense it even further, there are five basic principles of living well on this earth. (Has nothing to do with salvation, mind you.  Nothing you do can effect that except accepting Jesus as your savior.  This laws are given so that you can have a good life, not afterlife)  The five are;

1. Personal property rights (thou shall not covet, thou shall not steal)

2. Sanctity of life (thou shall not kill)

3. The importance of the family (Honor thy father and mother, Do not commit adultery.)

4. The persevertion of the truth (thou shall not lie)

5.  Taking care of the "temple" now the human body.  (Not in the big ten, but most of the laws about food and cleansing were to keep the body clean)

So yeah, now lets look at the "New" seven deadly sins.

 genetic modification-  maybe sanctity of life?

 carrying out experiments on humans- sanctity of life.

polluting the environment- ?

 causing social injustice-  what is causing a social injustice?

 causing poverty-  How do you cause poverty?  Socialism?!  Worked pretty well in Russia.  I also guess this means we shouldn't be poor, because we are causing poverty.  You know the old says, "the best way you can help the poor is by not becoming one of them."

 becoming obscenely wealthy-  What is obscenely wealthy?  This goes against the "causing poverty" commandment.  The obscenely rich don't keep their money in their bank account, they use it as working capital so that others can have jobs.  I guess obscenely wealthy would be those who hoard their wealth.  But then again, if you hoard your wealth you won't get wealthy, so that doesn't work very well. As long as I get it while obeying the other commandments,  I think the church or anyone else commanding me to give my money away would be a violation of personal property rights.  The tithe and anything else I give is supposed to be a gift freely given. 

 taking drug:  Illegal drugs, right, not tylonol?  That would go against keeping the body healthy.

So, in conclusion,  I think it is better if everyone looks to see what the bible says themselves if they want to know what is a sin.  The vatican is right about some things, but they are not the final word on what is right and wrong.