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Vatican compares masturbation to driving a Ferrari in first gear

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  1. Todd Helme

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    Vatican City - Masturbation is like owning a Ferrari and driving only in first gear, a senior Catholic theologian said in an article published Wednesday.

    "Driving only in first gear, not only do you prevent the Ferrari expressing its full power, but gradually you wear it out and thereby ruin a masterpiece of technology," Father Giordano Muraro wrote in the magazine Vita Pastorale.

    Muraro was responding to a reader who asked whether it was sinful to masturbate in the absence of one's spouse in order to reduce sexual tension.

    According to Muraro, while masturbation - the sin of onanism in the bible - is "objectively a serious act, circumstances must be taken into account".

    He said it was up to the person involved to "judge the gravity of his deed, in the context of the couple's path to God". - Sapa-AFP
     
  2. Ken

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    I'd rather drive a Ferrari in 1st gear than not drive a Ferrari at all.

    Ken
     
  3. James_Woods

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    Obviously, he has never tried to grab second when it was cold.

    Only a secrect cow-girl who does not really like the gated shift knows exacly how to handle it in this situation.
     
  4. JSL

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    LOL!
     
  5. maximus136

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    What does he know?, I'm pretty sure he has never driven a ferrari in any gear nor executed the other option.....at least with a girl.........
     
  6. ScuderiaRossa

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    The Vatican is so out of touch...
     
  7. WJC

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    I don't know where I heard this from but I think it was on the site but I think that it is interesting that former Pope John Paul II loved Ferraris and saw them as great machines of art and the current Pope Benedict XVI, even though he accepted the money from the sale of the 400th Enzo, an engraved steering wheel from Ferrari and Ferraris still meet at the Vatican, thinks that Ferrari's create envy in other, which is a sin.

    Looks like some of the help at the Vatican don't believe the same opinions that Pope Benedict XVI holds.
     
  8. simpleton7890

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    how stupid lol. they need to get a grip
     
  9. Artvonne

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    I think thats what they are discussing :)
     
  10. neilmac

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    Well, the Vatican does have a lot of pull with some people.......
     
  11. Stephanie

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    #11 Stephanie, Jan 10, 2008
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    The pope signed the hood of the Enzo. I took this picture at the Celebration Exotic Car Festival in '06. :)
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  12. BigTex

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    #14.) "Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's pimping ride......."


    That one was on the little known Third Tablet, which held Commandments #11 -15.........Moses slipped and dropped it on the way down the mountian, and as any of us would have done, said:

    " %^$&%^(*&% it!......."

    ..and went with what he had......stuff happens you know????

    He had to take care of the darn Golden Cow anyway, and keep moving....

    Glad they are finally getting around to this clarification.......:D :D :D :D

    *Playboy stock drops by 12%......*
     
  13. BigTex

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    Sure, they may be Catholic, but they are still ITALIAN!

    Although isn't the New Guy Polish, or something?

    Anyway they LIVE in Italy, after all.......
     
  14. SrfCity

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    OK. And I compare all the priest diddling and ruined lives to crashing an F-car into a wall at a buck twenty.
     
  15. James_Woods

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    And as he said in the Movie (or at least C. Heston did) - "out of my cold dead hands"

    just to keep the worthy thread back on topic -
     
  16. BigTex

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    Yea, I was gonna make that comment but refrained.........they seem to do all right.

    There's a unsolved murder case in El Paso where a debutant was dumped in a ditch dead, back in the 60s.......all indicators point to a young priest there at the time.....see Texas Monthly article.....had they had the current technology to follow the body from the Rectory bathtub to the car trunk to where she was later found, they'd have nailed him...
     
  17. James_Woods

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    So now we know at last why that crazoid in Montana or whatever cut off his hand with a circular saw and put it in the microwave to kook. Said it looked to have the "mark of the beast" upon it.

    Betcha it won't be that easy to pull the trigger on his other arm, eh?
     
  18. BigTex

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    ..I think the gentleman involoved in the El Paso case is in AZ, Texas Monthly knocked on his door for the article, and got a "no Comment".......
     
  19. sjmst

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    And they'd like everyone else to be as well.
     
  20. willrace

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    Isn't first gear about right for cruising for altar boys and such?????

    Connection????????? Maybe.
     
  21. Maranello Guy

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    WHAT ? No he didn't.
     
  22. texasmr2

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    Pope or no Pope a brotha's got's his need's LOL!
     
  23. Hoodude

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    I may be speaking out of class [or dumb guy on the back row hoo has no bidness say'n nuthin] but there ain't been no Pope hoo wasn't Master of his Domain

    props to Larry D

    diss thread a hoo't...when can the bear in the woods appear...or does the bear take a shower...or does the Bishop see bears when he showers...alw-ready w/ the inquiring minds
     
  24. Stephanie

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    Yes, he did! :p

    I know you can't read it in the picture that I posted, but I'm sure someone has a better shot of it! :)
     
  25. rcallahan

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    What if you masterbated while driving your Ferrari in first gear...the best of BOTH worlds!
     

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