Happy Valentine’s Day, kibitzers. As usual this is an open thread but here’s a quiz i thought i’d throw out there just for the hell of it.
1. Can you name the seven deadly sins?
2. Have you struggled with any of the sins? Provide examples to support your position.
3. Is there an individual we all know who exhibits each and every one of these Sins? Provide examples to support your position.
- Lust – to have an intense desire or need: “But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:28).
- Gluttony – excess in eating and drinking: “for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags” (Proverbs 23:21).
- Greed - excessive or reprehensible acquisitiveness: “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more” (Ephesians 4:19).
- Laziness – disinclined to activity or exertion: not energetic or vigorous: “The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway” (Proverbs 15:19).
- Wrath – strong vengeful anger or indignation: “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger” (Proverbs 15:1)
- Envy – painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage: “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation” (1 Peter 2:1-2).
- Pride - quality or state of being proud – inordinate self esteem: “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18). Link
Pride: The horse and yellow. Punishment in hell: Broken on the wheel
Envy: The dog and green. Punishment in hell: immersed in freezing water
Gluttony: The pig and orange. Punishment in hell: force fed rats, toads and snakes
Lust: The cow and blue. Punishment in hell: smothered in fire and brimstone
Anger: The bear and red. Punishment in hell: dismembered alive
Greed: The frog and yellow. Punishment in hell: boiled alive in oil
Sloth: The goat and light blue. Punishment in hell: thrown into snake pits.
Cheat Sheet
Gluttony
… the Filet-O-Fish and Big Mac wrappers, the empty shake cups, and half-filled cookie wrappers that must line some landfill somewhere, after being deposited from Trump Force One. For Donald Trump, gluttony is a lifestyle choice. www.vogue.com/...
Sloth
Much of Trump's cluelessness about issues stems from his refusal to make more than a minimal effort at his job. As his comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War confirm, Trump is not merely too lazy to learn; he's too lazy to notice there is anything others know that he might need to. His is indolence on an epic scale. www.chicagotribune.com/...
Greed
“My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy. I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States. I want to grab all that money. I’m going to be greedy for the United States.” www.vox.com/...
Anger
In the West Wing, Trump can be a temperamental commander-in-chief, prone to bursts of anger that dissipate as quickly as they came on. The rage is an extension of what many say they experienced on the campaign trail.
Some close to him even say his expressions of anger are a sign that he is engaged.
"I would much rather have him yell at me than be dismissive," said a source familiar with his management style. "If he doesn't get mad, it means he doesn't care."
www.cnn.com/...
Pride
There is Trump’s compulsive use of superlatives—especially when he’s talking about his own accomplishments. Maybe what he’s building or selling really is the greatest, the grandest, the biggest, the best, but if that’s so, let the product do the talking. If it can’t, maybe it ain’t so great.
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On occasion, there is an almost—almost—endearing cluelessness to the primal way Trump signals his pride in himself. He poses for pictures with his suit jacket flaring open, his hands on his hips, index and ring fingers pointing inevitably groinward—a great-ape fitness and genital display if ever there was one. After he bought the moribund Gulf+Western Building in New York City’s Columbus Circle, covered it in gold-colored glass, converted it into a luxury hotel and residence, and reinforced it with steel and concrete to make it less subject to swaying in the wind, Trump boasted to The New York Times that it was going to be “the stiffest building in the city.” If he was aware of his own psychic subtext, he gave no indication. time.com/...
Envy
“Trump has dictator envy,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University. “You start being more attracted to people like Kim and Putin because they look like they could be presidents for life. And if they have enemies, they don’t have to resort to [former president Richard M.] Nixon keeping an enemies list. You just destroy your enemies’ lives with a phone call. That’s attractive to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/…
Trump’s main sin in this realm is his inability to control his impulses. He won’t listen to lawyers. He won’t listen to his wife’s cyberbullying initiative. The more he lets his impulses rule, the less he governs effectively. www.usatoday.com/...
Lust
From his Playboy past to Howard Stern interviews boasting that he would date his daughter if she weren’t a relative, Trump sells an image laced with lust. It has gotten him in trouble, with the Access Hollywood tape the most damaging blow. Those lustful failings and his casual misogyny have made him historically unpopular with women, thereby kneecapping his presidency. Just over two in 10 American women approve of Trump. Given how crucial women are to victory in swing elections, this is undercutting his ability to pressure wavering members of Congress on hard votes. www.usatoday.com/...