Lust or lechery, intense longing, often sexual but not stopping, sliding to rape, adultery, incest, pedophilia, the seedier side of life. Lust adversely affects important matters, interrupts business. Disordered love for people.Sometimes seemingly harmless, sometimes wanting power or prestige almost erotically. Lust […]
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Gluttony
Gluttony, overindulgence and overconsumption amounting to waste. a Latin word for gulp down or swallow. A sin depriving needy others of essential food. When food is scarce, indirectly killing others. Even obsessive anticipation of meals, constant eating. A malady drawing crowds to Overeaters Anonymous […]
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Greed, a human-caused desire for possessions. A sin because man condemns the eternal for the sake of mere temporary things. Greed begets violence, theft. manipulation, Hoarders show. A state of restlessness of the heart, and consists mainly of craving power […]
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Laziness we would have called it. Absence of interest of habitual disinclination to exertion. Not only physical but mental, spiritual — pathological. Absence of affect producing boredom, rancor, apathy. Forgetting the good stuff, forgetting our responsibility. Look at a bloom, at […]
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The Wrath of God? Hardly. A human emotion. A deadly sin — anger, rage, hatred —uncontrolled. Seeking vengeance. Endemic, to the seventh generation. Anger promoted to sin when fixed on innocence. Desiring someone else suffer misfortune or harm. Dante’s “Love of […]
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