Recycle or go to Hell, warns Vatican
By Malcolm Moore in Rome
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 10/03/2008
 

Failing to recycle plastic bags could find you spending eternity in Hell, the Vatican said after drawing up a list of seven deadly sins for our times.

The seven, which include polluting the environment, were announced by Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, a close ally of the Pope and the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, one of the Roman Curia's main court.

Mgr Girotti said genetic modification, carrying out experiments on humans, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing poverty, becoming obscenely wealthy and taking drugs were all mortal sins.
 

 
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(Under those guidelines for mortal sins, it sounds like everyone driving a gasoline car or diesel truck that pollutes the atmosphere and using those plastic disposable diapers for babies that also pollute the environment would end up in hell. Of course, a return to using cloth diapers for babies would stop those plastic disposable diapers from being buried in the ground at garbage landfills, but that won't keep anyone from going to hell.  I don't ever recall reading in the Bible where polluting the environment will send you to hell although not believing in your heart and confessing with your mouth that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins would send you there.  Of course, we all should do our best not to pollute our environment as we are all stewards of God's creation, and maybe if someone would invent an electric car that doesn't pollute the atmosphere and that everyone including the poor could easily afford and that goes a lot of miles before having to be recharged, we could all buy one of those; but no one is going to end up in hell for driving a gasoline car or a diesel truck.)