Christians did not name greed as one of the seven sins. The 7 sins are:SJConspirator » 03 Aug 2022, 11:09 am » wrote: ↑ If greed is so great, why did early Christians name it as one of the seven deadly sins?
Welfare and illegal immigration killed that spirit. Next?SJConspirator » 03 Aug 2022, 10:46 am » wrote: ↑ Okay, here is an example.
In the 1950s, nation building was a popular value. The interstate highway system was the physical manifestation of that value.
If we still had that value, there would have been a mag lev rail from LA to NY by now, and the country would be better off for it.
But that value is gone, there is no will to improve this country anymore. What has replaced it? The same thing that replaced all other values of this country, sheer greed
SJConspirator » 03 Aug 2022, 7:00 am » wrote: ↑ I dare you to name a value that you hold over that of greed, and demonstrate how you actually HAVE ANY values other than greed.
Even progressives can claim they believe in wokeness, and gay as it is, they actually hold transgenderism and reverse racism as values, to be sacrificed for. Many of these people are zealots, and they make sacrifices for their ideology.
When was the last time a Republican made a sacrifice for any of his/her values? Sacrifice means giving til it hurts. If you have $2 million and you donate $2.50 that’s not sacrifice, BTW.
so called conservatives have no sound, no values, no virtues, nothing at the end of the day but an all consuming, raw naked greed. It is unfortunate, because if they had any values for things like community, urban improvement, charity, faith, family, honesty.. hell ANYTHING AT ALL, we would have a much better nation and a better world.
"In his book, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservativism (Basic Books, 2006), Brooks discovered that approximately equal percentages of liberals and conservatives give to private charitable causes. However, conservatives gave about 30 percent more money per year to private charitable causes, even though his study found liberal families earned an average of 6 percent more per year in income than did conservative families. This greater generosity among conservative families proved to be true in Brooks’ research for every income group, “from poor to middle class to rich.”SJConspirator » 03 Aug 2022, 7:00 am » wrote: ↑ I dare you to name a value that you hold over that of greed, and demonstrate how you actually HAVE ANY values other than greed.
Even progressives can claim they believe in wokeness, and gay as it is, they actually hold transgenderism and reverse racism as values, to be sacrificed for. Many of these people are zealots, and they make sacrifices for their ideology.
When was the last time a Republican made a sacrifice for any of his/her values? Sacrifice means giving til it hurts. If you have $2 million and you donate $2.50 that’s not sacrifice, BTW.
so called conservatives have no sound, no values, no virtues, nothing at the end of the day but an all consuming, raw naked greed. It is unfortunate, because if they had any values for things like community, urban improvement, charity, faith, family, honesty.. hell ANYTHING AT ALL, we would have a much better nation and a better world.
7 sins and 10 commandments? 30% of something are missing and the question is it about anything in particular or everything in general.Skans » 03 Aug 2022, 2:49 pm » wrote: ↑ Christians did not name greed as one of the seven sins. The 7 sins are:
1. Pride
2. Covetousness
3. Lust
4. Anger
5. Gluttony
6. Envy
7. Sloth
Nothing warns of an individual man's accumulation of monetary wealth.
Actually "greed" has been more associated with covetousness. However, "Greed" is not one of the 7 sins. I have listed out all 7 sins, and Greed simply is not one of them. The Catholics try to sneak in Greed as one of the sins, but it is not. Pope Gregory I first enumerated them, and he did not dictate "Greed".omh » 03 Aug 2022, 3:37 pm » wrote: ↑ 7 sins and 10 commandments? 30% of something are missing and the question is it about anything in particular or everything in general.
Second thing greed and gluttony are relative to same behavior in separate topics. Food or money.
It is indeed true that greed is not one of the Seven Deadly Sins. However, when Jesus says that "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to gain the Kingdom of Heaven", he was clearly speaking about greed and its disadvantages.Skans » 03 Aug 2022, 2:49 pm » wrote: ↑ Christians did not name greed as one of the seven sins. The 7 sins are:
1. Pride
2. Covetousness
3. Lust
4. Anger
5. Gluttony
6. Envy
7. Sloth
Nothing warns of an individual man's accumulation of monetary wealth.
Xavier_Onassis » 03 Aug 2022, 4:05 pm » wrote: ↑ It is indeed true that greed is not one of the Seven Deadly Sins. However, when Jesus says that "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to gain the Kingdom of Heaven", he was clearly speaking about greed and its disadvantages.
please explain what #2 means, I'm confused by that wordSkans » 03 Aug 2022, 2:49 pm » wrote: ↑ Christians did not name greed as one of the seven sins. The 7 sins are:
1. Pride
2. Covetousness
3. Lust
4. Anger
5. Gluttony
6. Envy
7. Sloth
Nothing warns of an individual man's accumulation of monetary wealth.
with 7 sins comes 7 virtues as everything has opposites to balance out action and reaction. Now that means there are 7 axioms of doubt with bipolar results surrounding any action and reaction. going from 14 to 28 in a simple compounding evolutionary flow of ever changing total sum displacements here now.Skans » 03 Aug 2022, 3:56 pm » wrote: ↑ Actually "greed" has been more associated with covetousness. However, "Greed" is not one of the 7 sins. I have listed out all 7 sins, and Greed simply is not one of them. The Catholics try to sneak in Greed as one of the sins, but it is not. Pope Gregory I first enumerated them, and he did not dictate "Greed".
Greed is a compulsion to accumulate more than you could ever use. Covetousness has more to do with wanting what someone else has. Gluttony was historically understood to mean drunkenness. The term Covetousness was derived from the Old Testament and had more to do with wanting another man's woman or wife.
That singular sentence of yours is correct. The rest of what you said is complete nonsense and does not deserve to be re-posted or to take up precious bandwidth. But, you already know that!omh » 04 Aug 2022, 5:04 am » wrote: ↑ with 7 sins comes 7 virtues as everything has opposites to balance out action and reaction.
Completely define what government does ancestrally here now? Controls human behavior cradle to grave through power of suggesting life is more than reproductively centered as eternally separated biologically here.Skans » 04 Aug 2022, 5:35 am » wrote: ↑ That singular sentence of yours is correct. The rest of what you said is complete nonsense and does not deserve to be re-posted or to take up precious bandwidth. But, you already know that!