Lust and pride: the vices dividing the sexes

Men and women sin in very different ways, according to Monsignor Wojciech Giertych, personal theologian to Pope Benedict XVI and the papal household. There is “no sexual equality when it comes to sin”, Giertych wrote last week in L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

His views were formed by his own experience of the confessional and were supported by an analysis of confessional data carried out by 95-year-old Roberto Busa, an impressively tech-savvy Jesuit priest who has also carried out a computerised study of the works of St Thomas Aquinas.

The seven deadly sins are: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride (as opposed to chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness and humility). Last year, however, the Vatican suggested these might be supplemented with some new sins particularly relevant to the modern age – namely genetic modification, human experimentation, polluting the environment, social injustice, causing poverty, financial gluttony and the taking or selling of drugs (I’m not really seeing how smoking a doobie offends the Lord in a way comparable to deliberately causing poverty, but anyway . . . ).

According to Busa and Giertych’s Vatican-endorsed findings, if you’re a man, then your number one sin is lust, followed by gluttony – and then sloth, since by that point you’re probably too sated, in both senses, to move.

If you’re a woman, the prime sin is pride, followed by envy and then anger, which, I must say, doesn’t paint a very attractive picture. No wonder men sit around eating a lot and watching porn.

<snip> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/india_knight/article5780316.ece

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comes from many places. I can only imagine the pope's demons.
But why not focus on the call to move forward with loving thy neighbor?

Not my faith, Christianity, so I should not judge too harshly.

Mr. celibate weirdo

It doesn't seem scientific in any way to cite 'confession' as a source.

:shrug:

:rofl:

Must be nice to just feel totally guiltless about having someone else always cook for you, etc.! ...As a guest at a relative's house, let's say, it's so odd to not pitch in and help... but to do that every day??!! How very weird!

Is it as weird as spending half an hour every day painting your face and fixing your hair?

That's just bizarre!

talk about one-size-fits-all generalizations.

Priests are God's scriveners, after all.

track of where all the skeletons and gold are buried.

lust and sloth...

I mean, is that hot or what!? :)

lust after sloths...

not my bag...:shrug:

I mean, they've got one of the deadly sins built right in: what chance do they have? They get out of bed - or not, as the case may be - and straight away they're sinning. It doesn't seem fair.

He didn't think it was a big deal until I threatened to bring a tool grinder home with me (Dremels weren't on the market yet).