Well, almost secular. According to the Vatican, you shouldn’t kill in your car, you should help other people, and you shouldn’t commit “immoral acts” in your car.Thanks Pope. I’ve not killed anyone with my car yet, but I was considering it until I saw your commandments. Now I won’t.I mean, really, how stupid is this? I can’t sin in my car? Doesn’t it make sense that if I cared about what the vatican says I would ALREADY not be sinning in my car (or out of it)? How many catholics out there WERE using prostitutes but will stop now?I wonder if the pope-mobile breaks the “expression of power and domination” commandment, with the huge bulletproof dome and all the guards…And yes, still nothing about graven images.
The Vatican’s office for migrants and itinerants issued these commandments Tuesday:1. You shall not kill.2. The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents.5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so.7. Support the families of accident victims.8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness.9. On the road, protect the more vulnerable party.10. Feel responsible toward others.
The catholic church is good for one thing. This made my day. I’m still laughing. Ah, religion.
I am glad they told us because I was about to run some people over with my car !!!! damn but in my defense they were all catholics. lol
Whew! I’ve always been so terrified when getting behind the wheel. I never knew what to do and what not to do – that confusion is scary.
Thank the Catholic Church for issuing these rules. I now feel so much more in control when driving.
“You shall not kill”… who or what, exactly are they talking about? Because sometimes, little furry things run out in front of my car and there’s nothing I can do. Will the Catholic Church still love me?
Ah, those wacky (and I do mean wacky) catholics. Don’t they have anything better to do than this.
Oh yeah, I guess they do. They just issued an arrest warrant for the producers of ‘The DaVinci Code’, because they suggest that Jesus may have had children. Up to three years in prison if they are caught in Italy.
What a bunch of idiots. And they wonder why they aren’t as respected as they once were.
C’mon…life without Roman Catholic wackiness would be very boring…Who else brings you such devotional items as Jesus On A Tortilla, Mary On A Grilled Cheese Sandwich, an oil slick in Jersey that resembles Jesucristo, Jesus nightlights, Pope-on-A-Rope, and those mystical Jesus bobbleheads? Check out Jesus of the Week website…You will appreciate the need for graven images
what about my bicycle?…i have no idea how to act until someone from italy gives me some rules…i can barely balance myself without some guidance.
Dave
I think what the commandment to not sin in your car really means is that we are not to listen to Jazz or Rhythm and Blues.
Those are the devils music and the Catholics don’t want us to sin by listening to the music that will condemn us to Hell.
I was particularly peeved at the fact that the Church left out the sin of talking on a cell phone while sitting behind the wheel. Can’t say talking while driving because I have yet to see anyone actually driving their vehicle while they are actually just holding on to the cell phone to their ear and talk, talk talk but never really getting down the damn road.
“5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.”
No more kinky s/m sex parties in the backseat then, huh? And what’s better than being cramped up in a tiny car backseat, slowly whipped by your partner dressed in all leather, and looking up through the moonroof at the night sky? Ah, good times, good times.
Leather in the summer in Southern Idaho?
Uh… no.
Good point about the cell phone, Peter. Maybe it’s not a problem in Italy.
Wasn’t there a show about a Flying Nun? My don’t these catholics just fly high? Goodness, where would we all be without persistant proclamations from some old, bored, and unasked windbag from the Vatican? Has anyone come up with rules against popemobiles carrying dead weight?
I had to break it to my husband. He wept and wept. No more blow_jobs while he drives.
Did you hear Jay Lenno last night? He said some people were expecting an 11th driving commandment: Thou shalt not use a car to relocatea pedophile priest from one parish to another.
Isn’t the pope just another back seat driver? Since when has he been at a wheel? I wouldn’t be surprized to learn he never even had a learners permit from his own dmv (damned motorists of the vatican)
I would have liked a “Use your turn signals and get off the phone”