3 of 7 Deadly Sins: Greed Traditional Cache
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3 of 7 Deadly Sins: Greed
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Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.
People have always been immoral, shiftless, self-gratifying, good-for-nothings. But for ages, humankind has tried relentlessly to find a way to describe and categorize their spiritual shortcomings. The challenge was formidable: the system had to be complex and inclusive enough to implicate a vast range of disgusting behavior, yet simple and memorable enough to inspire guilt in an illiterate peasant.
According to Sacred Origins of Profound Things, by Charles Panati, a Greek monastic theologian first drew up a list of eight offenses and wicked human passions. He saw the escalating severity as representing increasing fixation with the self, with pride as the most egregious of the sins.
In the late 6th century, Pope Gregory the Great reduced the list to seven items, collapsing four into two and adding envy. His ranking of the Sins' seriousness was based on the degree from which they offended against love. Later theologians, including St. Thomas Aquinas, would contradict the notion that the seriousness of the sins could be ranked.
Some of the term have been used interchangeably in accounts of the Deadly Sins. As lat as the seventeenth century, the Church made minor variations, but the concept has persisted throughout the centuries.
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