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7 DEADLY SINS

• Mrs. Thomas
• Senior English
• 10 December 2010

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Anglo-Saxon vs. Medieval

• Anglo- Saxon-English culture- druids taught
• Fighting culture
• Social hierarchy based on tribal warfare
• Religion based off many pagan gods
• Medieval- Teachers use Bible, Roman Catholic
  church determines curriculum
• Culture-Social mores they are more religious
  and believe in one God
• Life is a journey- man is a pilgrim

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7 Deadly sins

• Cardinal sins
• Also known as capital vices
• 2 categories
• VENIAL- minor sins (forgiven in sacrament)
• CAPITAL- mortal sins, when committed, destroy the
  life of grace and threaten eternal damnation
  unless absolved or forgiven through confession
  and penitance

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European artists depicted 7 deadly sins as a
popular theme. Hieronymus Boschs The Seven
Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.
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SALIGIA a mnemonic to ingrain them in Christian
culture and consciousness

• Based on the first letters in Latin of the seven
  deadly sins Superbia, Avaritia, Luxuria,
  Invidia, Gula, Ira, Acedia.
• Now in your notes guess what the 7 deadly sins
  are!

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SALIGIA Answers

• Superbia- pride
• Avaritia-greed
• Luxuria-lust (at first was extravagance)
• Invidia-envy
• Gula-gluttony
• Ira-wrath or anger
• Acedia-sloth (lazy)

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Corresponding Holy Virtues

• To parallel the sins they oppose, there are seven
  holy virtues. Guess what they are.

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Holy Virtues

• Chastity- like abstinence
• Charity- giving
• Temperance-moderate in eating
• Diligence- working hard
• Patience or forgiveness
• Kindness-admiration
• Humility- modest
• Now guess which sin is their opposite.

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Sin and Virtue

• Pride- humility
• Envy-kindness
• Wrath-patience or
• forgiveness
• Sloth-diligence
• Greed- charity
• Gluttony-temperance
• Lust- chastity

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Bible vs.Dantes Inferno

• The Bible does NOT refer to 7 deadly sins, but
  Dantes Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, is the best
  source.
• By categorizing the sins, it helped priests to
  figure out how to get people to repent and how to
  punish them so they wouldnt go to hell. Dante
  had specific punishments for each sin.

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Gluttony

• Derived from Latin to gulp down or swallow
• Over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything
  to the point of waste
• Dantes hell- they had to eat rats/toads/ snakes.

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Gluttony

• Depends on culture- where food is scarce and is a
  status symbol, taking pride in having a lot is a
  vice. Where food is plentiful- not having
  self-control is the vice. Which are we?
• Early Church leader said it was
• Eating too soon
• Too expensively
• Too much
• Too eagerly
• Too daintily- Prioress

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Greed

• Avarice
• Sin of excess like gluttony, only this isnt
  food, its wealth.
• Includes disloyalty, deliberate betrayal, treason
  for Personal Gain.
• Hoarding materials or objects, robbery,
  especially by means of violence or trickery.
• Simony- where one profits form solicitng goods
  within the actual confines of a church
• Dante- bound face down on board for thinking
  earthly thoughts

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SLOTH

• Has considerably changed since its beginning.
  Used to be sadness, or depression, joylessness- a
  refusal to enjoy the goodness of God and the
  world he created.
• Spiritual apathy
• Changed to discontent, uneasiness of the mind
• Failure to love God with all your heart
• TODAY IT STANDS FOR LAZINESS, UNWILLINGESS TO ACT
  OR CARE, rather than a failure to love God, so
  now it is not such a serious sin.

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Sloth- Dantes Purgatorio made slothful penitents
(sinners) RUN at TOP SPEED
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We even make fun of slothful people
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Envy

• Like GREED, envy has Insatiable desire, but
  greed is for material goods, and envy is more
  general.
• They covet something someone else has, or
  something they think they lack

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Envious Glance

• Dantes hell has the envious having their eyes
  sewn shut with wire because they have gained
  sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low

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Green with envy
Early church leader Thomas Aquinas described envy
as sorrow for anothers good. The color green
is associated with this sin.
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WRATH or Anger

• Uncontrolled feelings of hatred
• Do EVIL or HARM to others
• Desire to seek revenge outside of the workings of
  the justice system
• Vengeance murder, assault, and genocide
• Only sin not necessarily associated with
  selfishness or self interest
• Dantes hell has sinners dismembered while still
  ALIVE!
• Batman exemplifies this because he acts out of
  vengeance.

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Lust

• Obsessive thought or desires of a sexual nature.
• Dante- excessive love of others, penitence is
  to walk through the flames to purge oneself from
  lustful thoughts

Marilyn Monroe- sexy woman of the 60s
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Love and Lust

• Love and lust are two different things
• A Genuine, selfless love represents the highest
  degree of development while lust is an excessive
  desire for sexual release. The other person is
  just a means to an end for the fulfillment of
  the subjects desires.

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The worst one

• This is the sin that is depicted as the trunk of
  the sin tree because most other sins come from
  it.
• It is the MOST DEADLY of all the sins.
• In the BIBLE, this was the downfall of LUCIFER-
  it caused his fall from heaven.
• WHAT IS IT?

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PRIDE
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Pride can be the downfall of the young, old, or
even cartoon characters. It is sometimes referred
to as VANITY. Dantes hell had to walk with
stone slabs bearing down on back to induce
humility.
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Demons Associated with Sins

• Asmodeus Lust
• Beelzebub Gluttony
• Mammon Greed
• Belphegor Sloth
• Satan Wrath
• Leviathan Envy
• Lucifer Pride

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Bible-Proverbs 616 These six things doth the
lord hate yea, seven are an abomination unto
him

• A proud look
• A lying tongue
• Hands that shed innocent blood
• Heart that deviseth wicked imaginations
• Feet that be swift in running to mischief
• A false witness that speaketh lies
• He that soweth discord among brethern

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Biblical list vs. 7 Deadly Sins list

• While there are 7 of these sins, they differ from
  the 7 deadly sins of the Roman Catholic Church in
  Medieval times.
• Only PRIDE is clearly listed on both!
• As stated before no where in Bible are the 7
  deadly sins stated, although you can kind of
  connect the sins to the seven deadly ones. Hands
  that kill- Wrath, but that connection is not
  necessarily biblical.
• Bible makes it clear in the New Testament that it
  only takes one sin, which is an act of disobeying
  Gods law, to separate man from a perfect God,
  placing him in need of salvation.

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Gilligans IslandWhich character represents
which deadly sin?

1. Gilligan
2. Skipper
3. Ginger
4. Maryann
5. Professor
6. Mr. Howell
7. Mrs. Howell

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Answers

1. Gilligan-Sloth
2. Skipper- Gluttony
3. Ginger-Lust
4. Maryann-Envy
5. Professor-Pride
6. Mr. Howell-Greed
7. Mrs. Howell-Wrath

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Narnia and the Seven Deadly Sins

• Seven Narnian tales by C.S. Lewis in his
  Chronicles of Narnia
• Edmund- glutony-sin of excessively using things,
  normally associated with appetite.
• Jadis, the White Witch tempts him with a warm
  drink and Turkish Delight, his favorite candy.
• He is like Eve, tempted by evil by which he
  betrays those he loves.

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Narnia continued

• Jill fails because of SLOTH- not so much laziness
  as just a reckless disregard and wearing away of
  devotion.
• Aslan intervenes by means of a dream and
  re-awakens her faithfulness.
• Lewis suggests that we can break the chains of
  sloth we too can regain a spiritual vision.

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Prince Caspian

• Luxury- Luxuria or Lust-which suggests sexual
  immorality or unchecked physical passion.
  However, there can be a LUST for THINGS in
  general. More like the sin of a Profiteer- like
  King Miraz, Caspians uncle. This is more like
  Luxury which children can understand better than
  lust.

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Voyage of the Dawn Treader

• Greed- Eustace is egocentric and totally selfish
• When he and his shipmates get shipwrecked, he
  finds the dying dragon and fills his pockets with
  diamonds. When he can carry no more, he falls
  asleep upon a pile of golden coins.
• Each tale will give a moral lesson connected to
  the seven deadly sins.

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Assignment

• Find examples of a sin and of its opposite
  virtue. Bring in the pictures, but keep them
  clean for school. Let us guess which deadly sin
  it represents and which virtue.