Reworking the 7 Deadly Sins
This is a fist draft. Nothing’s been written to a tablet yet. It’s not a total rewrite — just a minor reworking.
The Seven Deadly Sins, as you know, are:
Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed, and Sloth
You can probably see how they can all be problems. We all know people who are full of themselves (Pride) and drive us nuts talking about themselves. There are those who badmouth others incessantly (Envy) and generally won’t STFU. The guy who always takes the last piece of pizza and drives his Hummer the 1/4 mile to the post office rather than walk (Gluttony) is a pox on the world.
The guy/girl who can’t keep his/her hands/bosom off your significant other (Lust) certainly deserves to burn in Hell. Just make sure you don’t get angry when you see him/her in action — you’ll be burning with them (um, Anger. Did I really need to define this one?)
I’m sure you’ve heard the expression Greedy Asshole. There must be a reason.
As there is for the expression, Sloth-like Asshole.
Hmmm. It doesn’t have the same ring does it?
Which is only fitting. This entry doesn’t have humorous feel I hoped it would. It seems sort of blah. I guess it’s a good thing boring isn’t one of the sins.
Anyway, tonight I was taking a stroll and thinking about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At some point a thought flew in one ear that went something like this, “If the world suddenly became religionless, we could cut hypocrisy in half overnight.”
I’m currently reading a book about an Israeli agent; there’s a lot going on between the Israelis and Palestinians in the book. Somehow this led to the religion-being-a-divider-more-than-a-uniter thought. I then segued to not-so-long-ago riots in France and Australia, Baptists, the Catholic Church, the Crusades, pedophile priests being shuffled around, pedophile Rabbis and the realization that pedophiles certainly exist among all religious “leaders,” the odd idea of an infallible Pope, why do the various religions have billions and billions of dollars worth of land/buildings and yet we still have hungry children in the world and the churches keep asking for money (I realize that if the buildings and other holdings were turned into stacks of twenty dollar bills the logistics involved in distributing it to the world’s needy would still be tricky — it would be a start, though) … blah blah blah … it’s a four-mile trek I have a lot of time to come up with odd thoughts … and today’s final thought boiled down to the religionless society being a less hypocritical society.
[I finally applied some editing to this entry, saving you from having to read some other stuff that just never came together]
The point that seemed so clear and somewhat funny during my stroll was that hypocrites are a much bigger pain in the butt than sloths. Hypocrisy should be the Seventh Deadly Sin. Hypocrites tell you what you should not do and then do it themselves — which is a lot more troubling than anything sloths do or neglect to do.
Sloths don’t start wars. They aren’t in front of you in the express checkout with 22 items. They don’t get elected president.
And they don’t write really crappy blog entries either.
