[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]Deorum wrote:
Now I ask, Why are these “sins” again? Somebody inform me why I should avoid these behaviors. Furthermore, tell me as Christians why NONE of you avoid any of these sins - don’t say because you accepted jesus and you don’t NEED to any more. That is the weak minded cop out that I would expect from a Christian. Even if you don’t need to follow these because you accepted Jesus you should still strive to match your god’s image, no? Are you guys really striving to be God-like? If not, why?
Let me repost that for Chris. Actually answer the questions this time. Why are these sins, why should I avoid them, and why DON’T you as a Christian avoid them?
Hint Chris will come back with a question avoiding response, based in semantics - filled with personal attacks and distracting facts intertwined with absolute falsehoods. Regardless it is not about Chris. He is a lost soul. The point is for the rest of you to start thinking using YOUR own brains.[/quote]
Not my fault you can’t read what the Church teaches. You can’t bring falsehoods to the table all you want. Why would anyone answer your questions when all you do is make up shit?
I’ll answer your questions, but I’ll post what the actually definition is from newadvent.com not your ignorant definitions.
I will tell you why it is bad to be have pride, greedy, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
“Pride is the excessive love of one’s own excellence.”
It is bad to be Prideful because the creature refuses to stay within his essential orbit, he turns his back upon authority. Leads to murder, distortion of the truth, ambiguity.
“Avarice (from Latin avarus, “greedy”; “to crave”) is the inordinate love for riches. Its special malice, broadly speaking, lies in that it makes the getting and keeping of money, possessions, and the like, a purpose in itself to live for.”
It is bad to be greedy because it gives unreasonable love for money, which is only valuable because it is an instrument to conduct life. Leads to usurpition, theft, conning people.
"Envy is defined to be a sorrow which one entertains at another’s well-being because of a view that one’s own excellence is in consequence lessened.
It is bad to be envious because it allows oneself to lessens oneself because of anothers gifts, as if one’s worth was based on another’s possessions. It leads to gossip, murder, theft, assault, &c.
“Wrath is the desire of vengeance. When these are in conformity with the prescriptions of balanced reason, anger is not a sin. It is rather a praiseworthy thing and justifiable with a proper zeal. It becomes sinful when it is sought to wreak vengeance upon one who has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than it has been deserved, or in conflict with the dispositions of law, or from an improper motive.”
The reason it is bad to desire vengeance because you are giving unjust punishment to someone else. Jesus took a whip and flipped over tables in the synogague. Righteous Indignation is not bad (which is just anger), but to want to kill someone because they pulled out in front of you is wrong. It leads to unjust punishment, unwarranted punishment, murder, &c.
“(From Lat. gluttire, to swallow, to gulp down), the excessive indulgence in food and drink. The moral deformity discernible in this vice lies in its defiance of the order postulated by reason, which prescribes necessity as the measure of indulgence in eating and drinking. This deordination, according to the teaching of the Angelic Doctor, may happen in five ways which are set forth in the scholastic verse: “Prae-propere, laute, nimis, ardenter, studiose” or, according to the apt rendering of Father Joseph Rickably: too soon, too expensively, too much, too eagerly, too daintily. Clearly one who uses food or drink in such a way as to injure his health or impair the mental equipment needed for the discharge of his duties, is guilty of the sin of gluttony.”
The reason that gluttony is bad is because it affects our health and free will and our ability to take care of our responsiblities.
"In general slothfulness means disinclination to labour or exertion. As a capital or deadly vice St. Thomas (II-II:35) calls it sadness in the face of some spiritual good which one has to achieve (Tristitia de bono spirituali). Father Rickaby aptly translates its Latin equivalent acedia (Gr. akedia) by saying that it means the don’t-care feeling. A man apprehends the practice of virtue to be beset with difficulties and chafes under the restraints imposed by the service of God. The narrow way stretches wearily before him and his soul grows sluggish and torpid at the thought of the painful life journey. The idea of right living inspires not joy but disgust, because of its laboriousness.
It is wrong to be slothful because one is delict of one’s obligation. Instead of going to work and supporting your family, you get drunk. Instead of picking up your children from school you play video games. Instead of being faithful to your wife you go to the prostitute, instead of paying rent so your family has a home you buy a new car.[/quote]
Well since you want to define everything for every body I’m going to leave you to preach.
Chris here is never going to think outside of his box. Is anybody else willing to expand the horizon of their own box? Perspective requires dichotomy.
Now take it away Chris and company!
Exhibit C will be on its way though… Only a brief intermission for you to spew your definitions Chris, better hurry.
