This week the Christian Church released a new, longer, list of the capital sins, by augmenting the original list, composed of the seven original capital sins, with the following six acts:
- Perform a genetic modification;
- Pollute the environment;
- Cause social injustice;
- Cause poverty;
- Be extremely rich;
- Use drugs.
What I found ironic in this list is that the church itself committed at least three of the sins above. First, cause social injustice: the church was directly involved in the holocaust, and other social injustices to the Jews throughout history; second, cause poverty: the church accumulated money by obliging Christians to pay royalties to the church, even though many could not afford it; what leads to the third point, be extremely rich: the church owns the best lands in almost every European city, where churches are placed with golden statues and ornaments. A fourth point could be the use of drugs, since some would say that religion is a drug.
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