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Hey, I searched both gluttony and seven deadly sins on wikipedia (best source right?) and couldn't find anything putting gluttony above the other sins. Where did hear that it was the most severe of the seven?

If lust is a deadly sin, everyone who has ever been a teenage boy is going straight to hell. Sorry, 99% of Armor Games.

About greed, they say money is the source of all evil..........BUT its not. You see, if you are greedy you will want more money. We need money because a monetary system makes things easier.

Rumor has it that the characters from a certain beloved undersea cartoon were based on the seven deadly sins.



Yahoo Answers can't be wrong.

Hey, I searched both gluttony and seven deadly sins on wikipedia (best source right?) and couldn't find anything putting gluttony above the other sins. Where did hear that it was the most severe of the seven?

Hmm, interesting, but I always thought the consensus was that Pride often trumped all the other deadly sins. I also thought there was no strict order (one could put any of the seven at the top as the worst.)

I read the Wikipedia article more fully this time around. I got this.

Source: Seven Deadly Sins (Wikipedia)

(Pride (Seven Deadly Sins, Wikipedia))

In almost every list, pride (Latin, superbia), or hubris (Greek), is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and the source of the others.

In the order used by Pope Gregory, and repeated by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) centuries later in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, the seven deadly sins are as follows:

luxuria (lechery/lust)[10][11][12]
gula (gluttony)
avaritia (avarice/greed)
acedia (sloth/discouragement)
ira (wrath)
invidia (envy)
superbia (pride)

Ranked in order (worst sins listed last) like in Dante's Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio), the seven deadly sins are:

Lust (fornication)...
Gluttony...
Greed...
Sloth ...
Wrath (anger, hate)...
Envy (jealousy)...
Pride (vanity)...

Well... a quick search got me this in under a minute... =)



Of course I had to work my way through a bunch of ridiculous screencaps of a seemingly 'Sim-esque' game called "7 Sins"... but it seems Social Media Week agrees with you pang. 'Gluttony' is the biggest sin of them all! =0

I find it intriguing that Evagrius Ponticus (the 'creator' of the list of sins) has several historical accounts and records that describe his life and times. Which was around 350 A.D.

Yet there is little historical evidence of Jesus, the single most prominent figure in Christianity.

Maybe this has something to do with Ponticus accepting his sins and bettering himself after acknowledging their existence and Jesus simply was free of sins?

He apparently only became a monk because he fell gravely ill and confessed his sins to a woman who was a figure of the Christian ascetic movement. She pushed him to become a monk while he was sick.

I think that is kind of preying on the weak.

Ponticus was kind of a celebrity at the time. He was a great speaker and writer. For me, it's the equivalent of a famous Hollywood celebrity becoming a religious fanatic overnight because they had a near-death experience.

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..but it seems Social Media Week agrees with you pang. 'Gluttony' is the biggest sin of them all! =0

...like, did you know, if you were to list them in apparent 'severity' of deadliest to least deadliest, gluttony is the worst?

Advertising firm JWT surveyed 562 adults on how they behave online, and discovered that around 70 percent were guilty of at least one of the seven deadly sins â" gluttony, lust, greed, pride, wrath, envy and sloth â" in their social media activity.

I also thought there was no strict order (one could put any of the seven at the top as the worst.)

I don't really think there is, honestly, I just remember seeing something with a theology professor talking about the sins and how Gluttony is the worst using the analogy I mentioned earlier.

I like this theory

~~~Darth Caedus

hmmm i actually thought about this randomly myself.

i think all the sins are equal but and that we all share them in some different amounts.

i also reached the conclusion that being pure of those or just one isnt that great either and that we all need a good balance of those as humans.

as humans we need greed to survive. sad but its true. with no greed you have no value of money at all, you cant handle it right and you wont survive as an adult.

no gluttony means no enjoying of food/drinks. for individuals thats kind of sad. its kind of like having no sense of taste.

no wrath means you dont get angry at all. we need anger and that passion to become better then other people and be competitive. no wrath means we will accept situations that can be unfair to us and just wont have the strength of will to fight.

no pride is about the same as no wrath i guess. and i think a person with no wrath would be very submissive and passive.

i think that lust isnt just about sex. i think its about being loved and getting attention. so its also what connects us all and without that we will become very lonely and not caring for other people.

no sloth means we cant enjoy free time. we always have to be productive and do something.

no envy means we cant compare ourselves to others. it means we dont want to become like other people or reach their achivements. envy make us want to be or have what others are or have and make us grow as people by giving us a point of view of another person.

i think those sins only become sins once we cant control them too much. but lacking any of them isnt any less fatal for us as individuals.

so... whats the order of the most active to the most passive sin for you? :P