Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Greatest of All Sins Ever Told
How many types of deadly sins are there created by the Christian scholars almost a millenium ago? There where seven. These where the infamous Seven Cardinal/Deadly Sins, each of it has the attribute to lead men into their own downfall by using the serpent's primary arsenal, temptation.
A friend of mine told me that upon those Seven Sins, all of them has a single origin even a gradeschooler could ever discover for themselves while attending Good Morals and Right Conduct subject.
Selfishness.
Selfishness is not a threat, but upon its wings, the Seven Sins sprouted. How? Let me demonstrate.
Sin: Sloth
Sloth's relation to selfishness is very obvious. You can't seize the day for yourself so you let others do it. You are lazy even to lift your finger, feed yourself. It is not a fact that the animal sloth is named after such because of its so slow movements. A sloth means a couch potato who waits for graces to come without giving an effort. Selfish.
Sin: Gluttony
You want to eat too much. You want all the food you can indulge right inside your stomach. Gluttony is directly related to Greed/Avarice but in the but in the gourmet aspect. It is the winner takes all food version. It is related to selfishness in the sense that you want all the food for your own bottomless stomach. Selfishness.
Sin: Envy
You want all the attention in the world. You are an attention whore. And you want that particular anything that belong to someone else and will do anything to have it for yourself, may it be a replica or the same thing. Still selfishness.
Sin: Wrath
You want to kick someone's ass. You want to destroy, you want to hurt your enemy so bad because you want to get even with them. Why are you mad? Can't have enough of Anger Management 101? Still a part of a man's selfish reasons.
Sin: Lust
You want to have sex to every girl you want to have your dick on. Or let's put it this way, you want all the girls in the world for yourself. You gain strong sense of machismo pleasure for every woman you screw. Still doing it for your own self satisfaction. Slefishness.
Sin: Greed
You want to get rich, so you are temped to steal. You want all the money in the world so bad to satisfy your vices. Cars, women, drugs... all of them for your own. Enough said. Selfishness.
Sin: Pride
Small but terrible, Pride is the most deadly. It is the sin that caused the light bearer to plunged down here on earth to be tied on judgement day. You can't to do a certain thing just because of your pride, even a very small, simple one that have always cause an arguement. Still because of man's selfish reasons.
As a conclusion, all of the Seven Deadly Sins are directlyrelated to a very small, gradeschool word called selfishness. Because mankind is inept in self-preserverance, God send his own Son to wash it all away. But still, mankind is an easy prey for a characteristics that have existed on animals called insticts. To gain salvation, man must overcome instincts with reasons, and the right path to God.
I am but a fool who don't have any authority to preach.
But I will leave you a word: Is is selfish to truly love someone, but still gaining pleasure out of it that satisfies yourself?
The answer is yours to find out.
2:31 AM ...another day has ended.
~o(†)o~