The Seven Deadly Sins: Part 2
The Seven Deadly Sins is a 5 part series by Leo Davidson in which he analyses the concept of the Seven Deadly Sins, adding his blasphemous and probably heretical commentary along the way.
2. Gula. “Gluttony”. Many of you will already know my opinions on this esteemed virtue.
3. Avaritia. This is rather vaguely translated as “Greed”, but let us not assume that it refers to the hoarding of money, a practice of which I as a Socialist heartily disapprove (while that can be the result of Avaritia, in the same way as rape can be a result of Luxuria, that is no reason to condemn it as a trait). Rather, Aquinas defines it for us as “condemn[ing] things eternal for the sake of temporal things” In other words, realising that there is not life after death and trying to live the one life we have comfortably. This relates to the preposterous injunction by Jesus to “Take therefore no thought for the morrow” (Matthew 6:34), and the slightly less famous and vastly less ambiguous earlier verses: “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on… Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.” (ibid. 6:25-6) It is therefore a mortal sin to “gather into barns” because apparently one is supposed to wait for the proverbial silver platter.
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