Your thoughts?
I doubt these people even knew what the seven deadly sins are. How can you say the original sins don’t apply and then come up with:
“cruelty, adultery, bigotry, dishonesty, hypocrisy, greed and selfishness”
What is adultery but a manifestation of lust, greed, and gluttony?
What is bigotry but pride and wrath?
What is hypocrisy but pride and gluttony?
It’s an inferior list put forth by the modern public, albeit over the telephone. Suffice it to say our medieval brethren thought through things more than I think most of us do. I doubt the public said these seven deadly sins no longer applied to us, either. My guess is that we’re just witnessing bad journalism or a very poorly designed survey.
I’ll stick to the medieval characterization. I don’t need the politically correct nonsense of “bigotry” hung over my neck, either. It’s but a mean word intended to intimidate.
1 Lust (Latin, luxuria)
2 Gluttony (Latin, gula)
3 Greed (Latin, avaritia)
4 Sloth (Latin, acedia)
5 Wrath (Latin, ira)
6 Envy (Latin, invidia)
7 Pride (Latin, superbia)
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They've simply been renamed to excuse the sinner. :)