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To: redgolum
The one about "which would you give up, Sex or food?" was kind of weird.

It's an attempt to separate the gluttonous from the lustful ... which in turn (according to Dante) partially governs the level of Hell to which one might be condemned.

15 posted on 04/07/2006 9:45:50 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Understood that part, but why was it an either or?


17 posted on 04/07/2006 9:52:54 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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