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The doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of the Christian faith.<\/span> — Reinhold Niebuhr<\/b><\/div>\n

I won’t say that yesterday was a “good” day for sin, but it was clearly a day that it was prominent.  On the serious side a crime fighting and “squeaky clean” politician was caught in scandal<\/a>.  And as the Reformed community we shake our heads in disappointment but not in surprise, for “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”<\/p>\n

And while in this news event several of the traditional “deadly” or “mortal” sins were transgressed, the Vatican comes out with their list of seven new<\/a> “social” sins.  (Technically, as this Toronto Star article says, a Vatican official discussed modern problems with a Rome newspaper and it was the news media that distilled and spun them down to the more attention-getting “seven modern sins.”)<\/p>\n

Update<\/span>:  There is a good story over on GetReligion called “Seven Sensationalist Sins<\/a>.”  But for us geeks, the diagram of the combinatorics<\/a> of the original seven deadly sins, chose two is priceless. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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