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'The seven deadly sins are outdated' (lust & gluttony are OK now, hypocrisy & bigotry move up)
Sunday Times (South Africa) ^ | Tuesday February 08, 2005 09:20 - (SA)

Posted on 02/08/2005 7:23:05 AM PST by dead

LONDON - The Seven Deadly Sins - anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed - are out of date and should include cruelty, adultery and bigotry, the results of an opinion poll suggest.

Greed is the only one of the seven that should remain a sin in today's Britain, according to the poll by the Mori organisation for BBC television's "Heaven and Earth" programme.

Cruelty was ranked the worst sin by 39% of respondents, followed by adultery (11%), bigotry (8%), dishonesty (seven percent), hypocrisy (six percent), greed (6%) and selfishness (5%).

"Attitudes towards sin have changed. We're less concerned with the seven deadly sins and more concerned with actions that hurt others," said Ross Kelly, presenter of "Heaven and Earth", a religion and ethics programme.

Of the 1,001 adults interviewed, only 9% said they had not committed any of the sins. 79% said they were guilty of anger - while 41% of men and 26% of women said lust was the sin they "most enjoy committing".

AFP


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To: ClearCase_guy
Yes, Unitarians - the only place where you can go to church and not see or hear the name Jesus.

And "hypocrisy" is just something that infantile leftists use everytime someone promoting values falls short because they are only human.

21 posted on 02/08/2005 8:18:01 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Rocketman

Pop Quiz for the group:

Who first published the Seven Deadly Sin list, and When?


22 posted on 02/08/2005 8:20:49 AM PST by Go_Raiders ("Being able to catch well in a crowd just means you can't get open, that's all." -- James Lofton)
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To: Go_Raiders

Aquinas I believe.


24 posted on 02/08/2005 8:36:35 AM PST by DarkSavant
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To: dead

More secular humanist - relativism crap.


25 posted on 02/08/2005 8:44:33 AM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: TonyRo76
You are correct Sir.

The Seven Deadlies were originated by Pope St. Gregory the Great. The following are Roman Catholic web pages regarding him: http://www.monksofadoration.org/gregory.html http://christdesert.org/noframes/scholar/benedict/st.gregory.html

(This is a quote from a Catholic regarding their origin) He apparently was familiar with an early list made by St. John Cassian, both men had been thinking about the basic attitudes behind sin.

(Another quote from a Catholic) The list does not exist in Scripture as such, but all seven are proscribed throughout, especially in the Epistles of St. Paul and James.

26 posted on 02/08/2005 8:58:59 AM PST by Rocketman
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To: Lazamataz
G-d will immediately change the moral code of the universe to keep within the trends of modern society.

Why not? The western christanity seems to be doing it. The RCC itself went from being timeless to "contempory".

27 posted on 02/08/2005 9:00:35 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: TonyRo76; DarkSavant
DingDingDing - TonyRo76 is our winner!

Gregory the Great published the list ("Moralia in Job") in the 6th Century. Our Pastor amused us a couple of weeks ago (we're covering the Seven in Church this month) when he wondered if any one whose appellation was "The Great" should be warning others about the sin of Pride.

It is interesting to see how each sin is addressed many times over by Jesus and His Disciples. They just didn't come up with a catchy title and address them in a sequence.
28 posted on 02/08/2005 9:12:49 AM PST by Go_Raiders ("Being able to catch well in a crowd just means you can't get open, that's all." -- James Lofton)
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To: TonyRo76
Thankfully, Cynicism, Sarcasm and Flatulence are still OK.

I'm good for a while longer...................
29 posted on 02/08/2005 9:15:31 AM PST by WhiteGuy ("a taxpayer dollar must be spent wisely, or not at all" - GW BUSH)
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To: Rio
The Seven Virtues

When Pope Gregory defined the seven deadly sins that we should avoid, he also included a counter-balancing set of values that we should espouse and adopt. These are:


30 posted on 02/08/2005 9:17:40 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: TonyRo76

"Ignoring the checkpoint in Fallujah" #8 added by W. George Bush the nearly Great 2004


31 posted on 02/08/2005 9:18:32 AM PST by DainBramage
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To: dead
Galatians's Ch. 5: 19-21

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these....
32 posted on 02/08/2005 9:27:07 AM PST by TRY ONE (NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
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To: dead

No one ever said that cruelty and adultery weren't sins.

But the essence of this revision is in this statement: "Attitudes towards sin have changed. We're less concerned with the seven deadly sins and more concerned with actions that hurt others." It's just another version of "victimless crimes" and "consenting adults."

The problem is, of course, that all sins hurt the perpetrator as well as those near to him. Revisionists want to pretend that they don't, but according to long experience they do.

Take adultery, for instance. Many moderns have argued that it does no harm, but of course it does. Evidently those who were polled recognized that. Nothing here about incest, but presumably most people would recognize that that does harm too. And so forth. Traditional morality is built on a basis of long historical experience as well as divine revelation.


33 posted on 02/08/2005 10:25:50 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: dead; All

I've never understood why pride is a sin. You shouldn't take pride in yourself and life? That's crazy!


34 posted on 02/08/2005 10:28:58 AM PST by Vision (The New York Times...All the news to fit a one world government)
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To: dead

Once the liberals are done, the only sin will be calling anything a sin.


38 posted on 02/08/2005 12:39:06 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: TonyRo76

Thanks, so why is lust a sin?


39 posted on 02/08/2005 12:40:04 PM PST by Vision (The New York Times...All the news to fit a one world government)
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To: dead

These "preferred" sins are all merely subheadings of the original seven.


40 posted on 02/08/2005 1:25:36 PM PST by ThanhPhero (di hanh huong den La Vang)
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