Christopher WilliamsMs. Woods Period 7/8th

Creative Writing

Deadly SinsDeadly Sins, known

also as Capital Vices, is a classification of objectionable vices that have been used

since early Christian times to

educate and instruct followers concerning

fallen humanity's tendency to sin. The currently recognized version of the list is

usually given as wrath, greed, sloth,

pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Holy

churches divides sin into two categories: “Venial ", which are minor and can be forgiven through

sacramental's of the Church, and “Severe

“ or mortal sins.

WRATH

The knowing of Wrath is inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. These

feelings can manifest as

vehement denial of the truth, both to others and in the

form of self-denial, impatience with the

procedure of law, and the desire to

seek revenge outside of the

workings of the justice system

(such as engaging in vigilantism) and generally wishing to do evil or harm

to others.

WRATH

A person with the taste to bring

destruction and havoc upon everything. (“Of

the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick

your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past,

to roll over your tongue the prospect

of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are

given and the pain you are giving back “)

~ William Blake

WRATH

The passion or need of chaos, malevolence,

carelessness, and pain all inside the

reign of will power.

LUSTThe knowing of Lust

is involving obsessive or

excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Unfulfilled lusts

sometimes lead to sexual or

sociological compulsions and/or

transgressions including (but obviously not

limited to) sexual addiction, adultery, bestiality, and rape.

Dante’s criterion was “excessive love

of others,” which therefore rendered love and devotion

to God as secondary. In

Purgatories, the penitent walks

within flames to purge himself of lustful, sexual thoughts and

feelings.

LUSTThe desire of

passion that gives a person a feeling of ecstasy and flavor.

LUSTA maximum need

of pleasure to fulfill the fantasy of a

beings mind.

GLUTTONYThe knowing of Gluttony is to swallow the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food, or its withholding from the needy.Depending on the culture, it can be seen as either a vice or a sign of status. Where food is relatively scarce, being able to eat well might be something to take pride in (although this can also result in a moral backlash when confronted with the reality of those less fortunate). Where food is routinely plentiful, it may be considered a sign of self control to resist the temptation to over-indulge.

GLUTTONY

Eating a person’s brain away without the need to halt or

waste haste.

GLUTTONY

A massive want that gives caution

of ignoring ignorance.

GREED

The knowing of Greed is like lust and

gluttony, a sin of excess, but with the need of wealth or

avarice “Avarice” is more of a blanket

term that can describe many other examples of greedy

behavior. These include disloyalty,

deliberate betrayal, or treason, especially for personal gain, for

example through bribery. Scavenging

and hoarding of materials or objects, theft and robbery,

especially by means of violence, trickery, or manipulation of authority are all

actions that may be inspired by greed. Such misdeeds can

include Simony, where one profits

from soliciting goods within the actual

confines of a church.

GREED

Not having enough of 1 specific thing, giving a chain of

one or more outbreaks.

GREED

The habit of just not getting enough

of something, which leads to

multiple outcomes.

SLOTH

The knowing of Sloth is the feeling

of melancholy, apathy, depression,

and joylessness. Dante refined this definition further,

describing Sloth as being the “failure to

love God with all one’s heart, all

one’s mind and all one’s soul.” He also described it as the middle sin, and as such was the only sin characterized by an absence or insufficiency of

love. In his Purgatories, the

slothful penitents were made to run

continuously at top speed.

SLOTH

The lack of ability or common sense,

holding back a being’s full potential.

SLOTH

The laziness or lack of activity holding

back a person from physical dedication.

ENVYThe knowing of Envy is insatiable desire of

general needs or misfortune of others.

 First, greed is largely associated

with material goods, whereas envy may

apply more generally. Second, those who commit

the sin of envy desire something that someone else

has which they perceive themselves

as lacking. Dante defined this as “love of one’s own good

perverted to a desire to deprive other men of theirs. In Dante’s

Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is to have

their eyes sewn shut with wire, because they have gained

sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low.

ENVYAppealed by

another's looks, so willing to havoc

them by any means.

food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

”

ENVYA felling of hate, wising grudge on another’s persona

PRIDEThe knowing of

Pride is a desire to be more important or attractive than

others, or a love for oneself. In perhaps the most famous

example, the story of Lucifer, Pride was what caused his Fall from Heaven, and

his resultant transformation into Satan. Vanity and

Narcissism are prime examples of

this Sin. In the Divine Comedy, the

penitent were forced to walk with stone slabs bearing

down on their backs in order to induce feelings of

humility.

PRIDEKnowing that

everything but yourself is

obsolete. (“We have the wolf by ears, and we can neither hold or

contract him, nor safely let him go. Justice is on one scale, and self-prevention is on

the other”) ~ Thomas Jefferson

PRIDEA feeling of

contempt and shear, as if you are

dead whilst everyone alive.

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