The Seven Sins are necessary ! What do you think?

Question

1. Anger - Good for defence purposes.
2. Lust - Procreation
3. Envy - Helps us in staying competitive and to pull up our socks.
4. Pride - For self discipline, self control.
5. Gluttony - Nourishment, prosperity. My cup runneth over, LOL.
6. Greed - Motivation for achieving our goals, ambition.
7. Sloth - Everybody needs a break, relaxation.

Answer 1

Yeah, they're necessary for a good weekend.

Answer 2

1. Anger is not necessary to see the need to defend oneself, ask anyone in the Self Defense Arts.

2. Lust is not defined as having the capability for procreation, most people in love have a natural desire the procreate with one another.

3. Competitiveness is not necessarily a good thing.

4. Pride is a careful balance, a total lack of pride is just as bad as pride without humility.

5. Gluttony is OVER nourishment and leads to health problems

6. Greed, self-explanitory, you need a dictionary.

7. Sloth is not a break or relaxation, it's sheer laziness, which is obviously not good.

But this answer won't do you any good as it seems to me, you just want to justify your sins.

Answer 3

Yes, in a way, the seven deadly sins all arise out of natural human inclinations that can be taken too far, or abused.

For instance, righteous anger is perfectly justified. Remember Jesus brandishing a whip in the temple?

And a man may desire his wife sexually.

And it's good to have pride in a job well done, or of children you raised well.

The desire for food and material things is justified because that's what motivates us to eat and live, and to put a roof over our heads.

But the problem occurs when we go too far. Then these inclinations become serious sins.

Pax Vobiscum+

Answer 4

I don't agree with you that the seven "sins" are necessary. The reasoning you used doesn't make these sins. Too much of any one thing almost certainly makes it a sin. For example, there's nothing wrong with having lust for the one you're with, and pride in yourself is good. However, you don't need anger for defense, you need wits.

Answer 5

You have a point. The seven deadly sins are "excesses" of natural human needs. In most religions, moderation is one of the key words - "The middle way" (Buddhism). Take for example anger - we have what we call -"righeous anger" - like Jesus' anger in the temple when people desecrated it. Yes, pride also makes us maintain our self respect ...etc.

The main point is to use these emotions positively. Utlize them in such a way that they develop us instead of destroy us. Nothing is bad per se, it is how we use them that turns them into tools of "evil" or tools of "good".

Answer 6

They are The Seven "Deadly" Sins. I think you just did a perfect job in glamorizing exactly what Evil would want some to do.

All of the 7Deadly Sins, pertain to the original definitions, not your very own. So, sorry but you can't tweak them to justify what you want them to be.

Answer 7

of course they are! Without them, the movie 7 never would have been made, or the stories about Pandoras Box, or many many other things.


ooooh, your talking about sin....i dont believe in sin

Answer 8

I think you are missing the whole "sin" concept

I don't think that just feeling these emotions is, in and of itself, a "sin".

I think it is when these emotions rise to the point that they interfere with your relationship with God, is when they become "sin".

Just getting a little angry is no problem. When that anger makes it difficult to live in a way that God intends you to, it becomes a problem (aka. sin)

Answer 9

Certainly, ALL human emotions are necessary for our emotional (and physical) survival. Why else would we have them?

It's when you willingly perform these in excess that you are doing bad.

Answer 10

No , unbridled greed has turned this country into a third world cesspool.

Answer 11

They are all human qualitys bad in excess.