The Seven Deadly Sins: Final
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.
In conclusion, while I have spoken about the individual “sins”, there is one common factor that I would like to mention in closing that I find to be particularly telling. All of these are, to pseudo-coin a phrase, thoughtsins. In none of these cases does one need to supersede the mental stage to merit eternal damnation. Moreover, every single one is a natural human reaction. This list calls strongly to mind Greville’s pithy summary: “Created sick, commanded to be Sound?”
It is my hope that some day soon we will fulfill the promise of the last Enlightenment and fully cast of the stigma attached to these characteristics as cancerous remainders of a defunct Christian theology. We ought to embrace them as valuable, if not essential, components of our humanity, and stop apologising for them.
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