<p>My teacher wanted me to write a paper about them.
I’m not sure what to write about them. Is it just me, or is every one of those seven deadly sins extremely common?
Who doesn’t eat alot or get angry or any of the other ones…
who can not have any enzy/lust towards another person? Who is not lazy at one time or another?
They are too common to be so “deadly”…</p>
<p>I guess you can want to commit those sins, but you cannot act upon them (unless you are that hardcore where it is a sin to think bad thoughts)</p>
<p>Try reading Dante’s Inferno. Nice stuff</p>
<p>not that he has time…why not make your thesis that they are common, unavoidable, and intrinsically part of human nature?
do you have any materials that can supplement the essay to help prove this? if so, include it.</p>
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<p>“Shoot for the moon and you may land among the stars.”</p>
<p>hmmm… I think it was Kite Runner… </p>
<p>The most deadly of the sins is stealing, as almost all can relate back… </p>
<p>stealing a life -> murder
stealing a person of the truth -> lying… </p>
<p>etc…</p>
<p>I thought of just writing a small paragraph on each sin based on reasearch on the internet, but it seems a little bland. Plus, that’s what everyone else will do; and I like my work to stand out.
Anyway, I think GIMEurSTRESballZ’s idea is nice. Making the whole paper revolve around the fact that they are really common.</p>
<p>can someone explain the quote fizix said? I know what it means and I get what s/he trying to say, but I’d apreciate it if someone elaborated.</p>
<p>I think s/he meant that even though you may not be able to fully avoid each sin, you should at least make the effort so that you can still be a “good” person, if not a “perfect” one.</p>
<p>That sounds about right.^
But I still don’t know what makes them “deadly”, All seven of them are things we do on a daily basis and don’t give them a second thought. You’d think that murder would be one of them; but it isn’t…</p>
<p>maybe because murder doesn’t hurt you but overeating does?</p>
<p>…lol, I really have no idea.</p>
<p>from a biblical or philosophical view?
if biblical, you could go into each of their origin and it’s place in today’s society. for example; pride started with adam and eve (we want to be like god so badly we eat the tree he specifically told us NOT to!), and is tied with arrogance.
if philosophical, you could explain that sins are relative. for example, lust is probably america’s most prevalent ‘sin’. some people consider sex before marriage fine, others don’t.</p>
<p>maybe it’s because they are so common that they are “deadly”? they’re so pervasive that sometimes you don’t realize you are committing a sin or dismiss it.</p>