[viaveritasvita]

I don't think God has much use for opinion polls! LOL! After reading these opinions, I can see why.

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[ClearCase_guy]

Let's take a poll to figure out our Theology. But it shouldn't be binding -- we can choose to believe whatever seems best to us. We'll call outselves Unitarians ...

[small voice in the wilderness]

...I don't see smoking...

[thoughtomator]

And 23% of respondents' first choices were "Republican".

[stainlessbanner]

8th deadly sin: Pizza!

For you parrotheads...

[Lazamataz]

G-d will immediately change the moral code of the universe to keep within the trends of modern society.

[KC Burke]

Interesting find.

Of course the first principle of conservatism is, "Belief in an Enduring Moral Order" and according to this paper Morals are more of a fashion, trend or an educational process.

[Conservatrix]

Woe to them that call good evil, and evil good....

[Unam Sanctam]

Moral truths are not determined by opinion polls, thank goodness.

[cyncooper]

The Seven Deadly Sins - anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed - are out of date and should include cruelty, adultery and bigotry, the results of an opinion poll suggest.

The latter are included in the former (adultery goes with lust, bigotry with pride, cruelty with anger). The list remains the same as ever.

[Rocketman]

Where did Christ say these were the seven deadly sins?

No place.

Where did the apostles list these as the seven deadly sins?

No Place

There are "deadly sins" in the New Testament can we find them and say what they are?

[eyespysomething]

OK, but they have to tell God, not me.

[Rio]

from a better-researched article on this: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=142672005

It is thought that the Greek theologian, Evagrius of Pontus, first drew up a list of eight wicked human passions, which were then whittled down by the 6th century pope, Gregory the Great, to the seven vices he thought were most at odds with divine love.

I had always wondered about where they came from... did not recall finding them in the Bible anywhere.

[Steve_Seattle]

According to a female Brit who I talk to on the Internet, the favorite sin of British men remains drunkenness; lust is a distant second. After the age of 25, they'd rather be boozing with the boys than chasing the ladies. There was an obscure Rolling Stones song called "I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys," and that seems to sum it up.

[ViLaLuz]

More secular humanist - relativism crap.

[TRY ONE]

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....

[Cicero]

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.

[Vision]

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

[aimhigh]

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

[ThanhPhero]

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