Essay On The 7 Deadly Sins

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The History of the 7 deadly sins For many years’ humankind struggled to find an idea-based system to use for spiritual problems. Humans have been socially wrong, lazy, and self pleasing for a long time, so they wanted to put a stop to this. The purpose of this system was to control non heavenly behaviors. Their goal was to inspire guilt therefore a Greek monastic theologian named Evagrius Ponticus started a list. This list had over seven offenses and wicked passions. Gluttony, lust, avarice, sadness, anger, acedia, vainglory, and pride were the sins. In the late 16th century, the list Evagruis made was shortened by Pope Gregory. He changed vainglory into pride, acedia into sadness, and added envy. The seriousness of the sins in Pope Gregorys …show more content…

In the film se7em, Detective Mills and Somerset go to an investigation where the first murder of John Doe lies. The crime scene took place in a kitchen where an obese man seems to have been fed until he burst. There was a closet full of spaghetti and in the table there was an unfinished bowl. Under the table was a bucket full of puke and the victims’ legs and arms tied to each other. There was a print of a gun behind the mans head which would result that he was forced to eat himself to death. This murder relates to gluttony because the victim consumed more than he could …show more content…

This is the last part of the movie when detective Mills discovered that his wife head was placed on that box. John Doe kept using his words as a weapon to fuel Mills rage, he was saying how she begged for her life and the life of her unborn child. Detective Mills didn’t know his wife was pregnant and anger started building after every word he was saying. In revenge for the life of his wife detective shoots John Doe many times and that’s how wrath was related. Why John doe didn’t target Children? I believe John Doe didn’t target children because he believed they were innocent. John was a stalker and his discernible patterns were adults who sin. He specifically chose the victims who are guilty of any of the seven deadly sins. According to religion kids a pure and they have to go through their sinfulness. A child has to reach a certain age before they can make any spiritual decisions. Another reason why I believe he didn’t go against children is because children have love for

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