The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell".
This must make the new list of mortal sins
(1 Environmental pollution
2 Genetic manipulation
3 Accumulating excessive wealth
4 Inflicting poverty
5 Drug trafficking and consumption
6 Morally debatable experiments
7 Violation of fundamental rights of human nature)
look somewhat alarming to the current Government. As far as we can tell they currently stand in breach of sins 1 (their record is awful) 3 (Cullen has been over taxing us for years and remember those surpluses) 4 (the result of Government biofuel policy) 6 (the three attempts to manipulate the Auckland Airport sales process were morally repugnant to Mom and Pop investors and were experiments that went wrong) and 7 (electoral finance act).
That is pretty good going and is probably more than enough to qualify for "state of mortal sin"status.
Thank you David Farrar for providing the inspiration for this post.
