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Driving.

That's right, the Vatican has deemed fit to issue a relatively large report with the newly-refurbished rules of the road, along with a set of 10 commandments. This is unbelievable. With all the issues going on in the Catholic church, the allegations of sexual abuse and the stonewalling of police investigations into them, people leaving the church, the Vatican has the time to tell people how to drive. Isn't something a bit odd about this? You'd think that sane people (that's debatable, but I won't go off on this) would actually focus on trying to resolve their current problems. I can't see how the inability of people to drive, which in itself is practically inexistant, can be of No.1 concern to the catholic church. And it doesn't even end there. The document itself is absolutely preposterous.

http://bostonnow.com/community/blogs...ts-of-driving/

61. In any case, with the request for motorists to exercise virtue, we have drawn up a special “decalogue” for them, in analogy with the Lord’s Ten Commandments. These are stated here below, as indications, considering that they may also be formulated differently.

I. You shall not kill.

- What the hell is that supposed to mean? Unless you're a drunk homicidal maniac trying to commit suicide, I don't see how a sane person would venture out in his car trying to kill people.

II. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.

- Once again, the logical meaning of this document betrays me. All I have to say to this one is, "No, really?"

III. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.

- Like if someone crashes into you and ruins your car, you better treat them right or you're going to hell.

IV. Be charitable and help your neighbour in need, especially victims of accidents.

V. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.

- This is my favourite one. So if you have an expensive car that you worked your ass off to buy, you're a sinner. Having a nice car makes you a bad person. I mean, really! The Pope has a different custom popemobile for every country. I believe in the United States it's a modified Mercedes Benz. Only one word can describe this "amendment": hy-po-cri-sy!

VI. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.

- Relatively reasonable. Except I don't understand what the "Charitable" is doing there.

VII. Support the families of accident victims.

VIII. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.

- I can see it now: "YOU MOTHERFUCKER, YOU WRECKED MY CAR! OH, JUST WAIT TILL I GET YOU, I'M GONNA MESS YOU UP SO BAD."

IX. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.

- Which means? Protect the children and elderly? I'm sorry, I didn't know that.

X. Feel responsible towards others.

Most of this document would be classified under "vague blabber." I just don't see why the church would be focusing on teaching people to drive when they should be sorting out the issues plaguing the church. There's more to this. It's long report full of similar things.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284297,00.html
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/06/1...nt-do-already/
(Disclaimer: I don't belong to the Catholic church)

Once again, the Catholic Church has embarraced itself.

In the name of the Bentley, the Rolls Royce, and the Holy Volvo, amen!

Seeing a rant from someone like Skillya is refreshing.

Madam, I applaud you for your anger.

Being a practiticing catholic, all I can say is...
WTF?
We've got Rev. Childmolester playing with the choir boys, but OH, we have to take our current legal troubles into an ethereal recycling bhin and focus on BAD DRIVING.
Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ, what is with Catholocism? I honestly want an Oddworld religion! this is such a ridiculous thing to do, never mind the fact that Pope Benedict looks like one of those guys who hangs around the drugstore watching kids, The catholic church is the LAST people to be saying this, as they attract so many "Not So Young" People every day.

The church tries to take over another aspect of life towards it's world domination by reseting the rules? Most of those rules already apply for driving and/or regular christianity. Not to mention impossible things like "be forgivingful for the guy who smacked your 1965 Aston Martin DB5 with a price of $170,500."

There's a lot of people working in Vatican City. They've got to give them all something to do.

I don't really have a problem with number 5. It's pretty much saying that people who care about their cars above all else are cockspanks and need to set their priorities straight.

When I made up my own commandment-style rules in the Biblical vein, I got told off by the local thumpers!

As a car is not a creation of god, I will not trust him on the matter, and thus will not pay attention to this at all.

These rules are the bees knees, I'm happy to have people drive defensively because they're afraid of going to hell. No skin off my nose.

Next thing you know, God will smite me for using the wrong finger whilst clicking with the mouse.

The hell is next?

Thou shalt not paint Warhammer models monochromatically?

Thou shalt not turn off the Xbox unless thou hast removed the disc?

Thou shalt not touch Havocs' Tiger-Box unless it is in worship of me?

Oh, hell.

There's one thing bothering me...
Why the hell would I follow these commands!? Lots of people follow some of them as basic rules, yet they still get killed in a car crash where some maniack (I put that k intentionally to increase the strenght of the word) drives in a wrong direction at a speed of 200 mph! How the hell does God help those families that get killed, I ask you!? Kids turned into orphans in a matter of seconds, parents being left in despair by losing the most important thing they have (not the car, the kid[s]). They all die. Not any of the rules could change that. Unless if they'd kill alcoholics that drive...

Out of interest who else here drives?

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Out of interest who else here drives?

(Waves hand obnoxiously over head ) Me, Me !!

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Me... and WTF to this topic. Church is going to tell us how to drive now too? I say again will someone PUHLEASE set the vatican on fire! PLEASE!!!! I tneeds to be done for the survival of our species!

Now, hold on. There are plenty of people out there that, like it or not, listen to the Vatican. Surely it would be better that they pronounce on something that can make the world a better place* than to tell everyone to stop using birth control and go bash the gays?

*Face it, better drivers => less crap on the road => people are a little less stressed => world is nicer for everyone.

Vatican just puts out hit contracts for guys like you Nate, and then gets back to creating more commandments to teach TEH BLIND N00BZORZ to follow.
If we want less stress, we send our bosses and teachers to hell and take a break...

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Nate, reading a flyer that has these commandmants will mostly likely not make you a better driver.

It'll probably make you worse, because I can imagine some retard having a piece of paper in front of the driving wheel, totally obscuring their view, until it flies into their face and they desperately jam the wheel left and right, trying to stay on course, not realizing that they're about to fly through the metal barrier on the side of the road that keeps cars from flying off a cliff, hitting the rocks below, and exploding into a buhjillion pieces of metal shrapnel, killing everyone within a two-hundred foot radius because of heat and shrapnel.

And it will all be the Vatican's fault.

The Vatican is putting out hit contracts on gay people? The hell?

I think he's saying that the Vatican puts out contracts on people who defend them. It would probably explain why they're so unpopular these days.

I was speaking in sarcastic metaphory...

But Patrick guessed the meaning although it is metaphoric.

If God intended cars to exist He would have made them.

We had to wait for the Tin flippin' Lizzie.

Ah, but that's the point; God was working through his evil, fascist servant Henry Ford to create the autocar.

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Ah, but that's the point; God was working through his evil, fascist servant Henry Ford to create the autocar.

Evil, fascist Henry Ford did not create the automobile, he perfected it`s mass production, a la, the assembly line, with out which we would not been able to have our dandy Global Warming thread. ;)

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Seriously. This is the dumbest thing I have heard in a while. The church seems to be dodging the real problems and making up stupid sh*t just so they can stop getting yelled at for touching altar boys. I'm pissed.

What a load of sh*t I can't beleve the church make up some stupid crap like that why not just tell them how to sleep aswell.

Now people will start using religion in car things...

"How did he die?"
"Car crash..."
"Wasn't he Jewish?"

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What a load of sh*t I can't beleve the church make up some stupid crap like that why not just tell them how to sleep aswell.

My IQ was drained while reading this post. It's all your fault that I won't be able to post quotes anymore!

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So... the REAL problem facing the Catholic Church as of this moment is the GENERAL NOTION that a few of its priests have a sideline in fiddling with the kidz? S'kay. And what exactly are you angry about? These stupid rules, or your ridiculously prejudiced and incorrect ideas on the Church itself?

:rolleyes:

BTW, Catholics are a load of crap.

I'm a Catholic, you bigoted asshole. Stop using pedophile priests (who make up an absolutely minute % of the actual amount of clergymen) as an excuse for being a narrow minded, bigoted asshole.

Amusing how you criticize me for speaking out against a religion that was founded by a pedophile, endorses pedophilia, and commits acts of terrorism, yet hate Catholics as people.

That isn't amusing in the slightest.

A monkey sticking its thumb up its own arsehole is, however.

I don't hate Catholics as individuals, but on the whole I think the whole thing is ridiculous. Essentially they're normal Christians who think ridiculous things like all gays should be slaughtered as painfully as possible on sight, making up things from the Bible which have absolutely no relevance to said point.

What a pile of c*ap that all is. Next, they'll have done this:

Though Commandments of Internetting according to God's Law

I. Though shalt not kill.

II. Though shalt not hack into thy neighbours computer.

III. Though shalt not mock Macs for what they are.

IV. Do not use the internet for immoral purposes.

V. Though shalt not steal through illegal downloading.

VI. Though shalt treat less grammatically and less intelligent internet users with the same respect as any other user.

VII. Though shalt not steal from paypal accounts or likewise.

VIII. Though shalt not make hurtful comments online in any communicative form.

IX. Though shalt not send spam mail.

X. Though shalt praise thy Lord in thanks for thy internet connection.

After this whole 'How to drive religiously' BS, I would not be at all surprised if this really was released.

Technically, in their defence, again (this is getting worrying), I don't think the Pope's ever decreed the outright massacre of gays, it's merely implied. :)

While I don't agree with the RCC's position on gays, to play angel's advocate here; (http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm)
Orthodox Catholicism commands gays to be celibate and (in my opinion, even from an orthodox position this one is unfair) never become priests. And that they shouldn't be discriminated against unjustly.

They shouldn't be "discriminated against unjustly", yet they think it's just to discriminate against them by preventing them from showing each other in a relationship the ultimate sign of love, and stop them becoming priests? Yeah. Very just. I hope one day a priest pretends to be straight, becomes the Pope, then announces to everyone he is in fact gay, but still follows God's law.

If only for the look on those obsessive Catholics faces who actually think that twoddle.