Examples Of The Seven Deadly Sins

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In today’s modern culture, the seven deadly sins are popularly seen as the most prevalent faults committed by humankind. They are basic human vices, which express idolatry of self where the subjective reigns over the objective, and when excessive, can be perceived as evil and potentially harmful. Subliminally, these faults are present in some children’s movies, like The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, being represented by main character’s identity and temper. They are Envy, Gluttony, Greed, Lust, Pride, Sloth and Wrath.
The meaning and definitions of the seven deadly sins are easily bartered with time, however their original nature persists. Envy, alike greed and lust, is portrayed by an insatiable desire.
They are considered the origin of all other sins. There are, specifically, seven sins because the number seven is special to God, as a trend is noticeable; it took seven days to create the world, God rested on the seventh day, the seventh day was for resting and worshiping God in the Sabbath and “seven” means “to be full” or “to be complete” in Hebrew, therefore, it is a complete number, meaning that nothing could be added or subtracted from it. All seven sins are named and derived from Latin: invidia (envy), gula (gluttony), avaritia (greed), luxuria (lust), superdia (pride), acedia (sloth) and ira (wrath). Envy can be specifically linked to the Ten Commandments as it is cited that “neither shall you desire…anything that belongs to your neighbor”. Aquinas, Italian Dominican friar and catholic priest, recorded ways of committing Gluttony: eating too soon, eating too expensively, eating too much, eating too eagerly, eating too daintily and eating wildly. God repudiated the act of Greed for being a behavior in which men is too concentrated in earthly thoughts. It is widely known within the Catholic culture that Lucifer fell from Heaven and transformed into Satan due to Pride, as he desired to compete with God. Sloth and Pride are both seen as a rejection of God’s gifts; Sloth being the rejection to utilize talent, and Wrath

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