The Vatican has issued 10 commandments for drivers:
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.
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I was expecting something more along the lines of...
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's Porsche."
Remember that little jeep that POPE JOHN PAUL II rode in pretty neat i say
11. Plan to own an EV or Plug-in hybrid as soon as donations to the Vatican are first paid in full, of course.
And be sure to refer to the book of clean driving often:
http://AutoBlogGreen.com
= TG
12. Thou shalt not take undue delight at the expense of the world*s most profit laden, Exxon - Mobile and Chevron.
**WASHINGTON — Senate tax writers Tuesday proposed slamming the oil and gas industry with nearly $29 billion in new taxes to pay for alternative energy and *clean coal* projects.
As the Senate continued its effort to pass an energy bill by week's end, the Senate Finance Committee voted 15-5 in favor of a plan to impose a new severance tax ranging from 12.5 percent to 14 percent on oil and natural gas produced from the Gulf of Mexico's federal waters.
While an offshore producer would be able to use its existing federal royalty payments as credit against the new tax, the provision would represent a significant hit for companies now enjoying relief from royalty payments.
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4904501.html
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It*s not just sulpher that stinks in crude. = TG
I leave the car running just to keep the interior cool.
Someone please try and stop me...
13. Thou shalt not have fuzzy dice in any car newer than a '57 Chevy.
14. Six year old Pine Tree air fresheners hanging from the rear view mirror are part of the original sin.
I believe :) this update was necessary as the 10 commandments needed to be updated due to the fact that number 10 is a little technologically challenged:
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's."
Now "coveting your neighbour's ass" means one's modality of transportation, in contrast to other possible modern day spinning.
Recall that Jesus rode on a donkey into Jerusalem.
Hence coveting your neighbour's Porsche is an occasion of sin. Similarly, it would be improper to covet your neighbour's vehicular Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound entertainment centre.
Because as Shakespeare once noted "if music be the food of love then play on!"
Hence if you must drive a Porsche, it is advisable to play spiritual/gospel music!!
Last but not least, remember that PETER IS THE ROCK who can ROLL the STONES!!
Resurrection shuffle coming at you!!
Cheers :)
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Thou shalt behave as thou sayeth and drive at the speed limit to save the polar bears.
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What about the separation of Church and State Trooper?
I'm a little surprised, with stuff like genocide in Darfur, the
insane violence in Gaza and the rest of the middle east...
the Pope was so focused on vehicular trespasses.
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THOU SHALT NOT WORSHIP THE EARTH.THOU SHALT NOT TRUST AL GORE
I'm a Catholic, a faithful one at that, but I'm learning over the years that being a faithful Catholic doesn't mean you have to love the Vatican institution and happily lap up all it's lovingly facile, arbitrary and unwanted pronouncements. I mean, the Catholic Church has a swath of problems which would cripple any other religious institution in a second - why it still stands after 2,000 is an obvious testament to the Great Promise, of course. But anyway, with all these problems, I just can't believe that some careerist in the Vatican has pushed through the 10 Traffic commandments. Like come on. In the old days Catholics used to look forward to the latest diss of whatever evil trend was crushing humanity; these days we're just being told not to speed and to always buckle up. What gives?
You know, it's also a good thing that there arent' any Catholics in the world being tortured and persecuted for their faith. Say if I were a Chaldean Catholic reading in the news that the Vatican had time and energy to compile and release the traffice commandments, while my cousins in Iraq were being shot at, burned with acid and killed, I might be a little grumpy.
Machiavelli wrote that the closer you get to the church in rome the less believers you find.
Of course he wrote that when the Borgese were shagging hookers in Vatican...
"I leave the car running just to keep the interior cool.
Someone please try and stop me..."
You should open the windows and turn up the AC. The earth needs help!
da pope is losing it ya.
The Vatican should do what it does best. Religon...