Well, see for yourself, in this BBC report of an exhaustive study carried out by a priest, on how different people sin in different ways. And I always thought that confession was supposed to be a personal, private matter between penitent, confessor and God.
Now, I realise science doesn’t have a lot to say on matters of faith (unless we boil it down to brain chemistry, anthropology, sociology… which seems perfectly acceptable to me), but now the faithful are teaching us how to do science. Unfortunately, it’s not a new message – SEX SELLS!
Men are more likely to commit sins of lust than women, women are more likely to commit sins of pride. A vatican theologian even went as far as ranking the sins, by gender:
Women
- pride
- envy
- anger
- lust
- sloth
apparently, gorging on chocolate has been excommunicated as a gluttonic sin. Men, being naturally greedier, get a chart with all 7 of the deadliest sins.
Men
- lust
- gluttony
- sloth
- anger
- pride
- envy
- greed
which, pop pickers, pretty much describes my perfect weekend.
I thought about adding this to Jenny’s blog on gender discrimination, but decided it needed its own pedestal to give NN members an easy target spread the Good News from.
My own theological studies have obviously fallen by the wayside, as I didn’t even realise that the Apostolic Penitentiary had included some new, modern, deadly sins we have to worry about:
- genetic modification
- experiments on the person
- environmental pollution
- taking or selling illegal drugs
- social injustice
- causing poverty
- financial greed
Better not tell the church types about the GM oil executives I’ve been developing to sell drugs to school kids on council estates to supplement my own personal income. I’ll probably spend it all on sweets and comics.
And now, for all my sins, I’m going back to try to understand why a multispecies system that is incredibly locally unstable with complex eigenvalues composed of enormous imaginary numbers (but reasonably small real parts), doesn’t behave in an even more curious way than it seems to. Strange attractors, indeed. I used to be a zoologist, you know.
which, pop pickers, pretty much describes my perfect weekend.
Too right, my son – too right.
I know some people for whom that is the perfect weekend.
Youyour friends should get out more.Does that include cyber friends, or only those he’s
molestedmet in the flesh?And we’re back to
vasectomiesvarious sins again.I didn’t say they were my friends, only that I know them.
Both cyber and ones met in the flesh.
Some of those “modern sins” seem quite well established… like, for thousands of years.
The old ones are the best ones.
Pride, envy, anger are the top 3 for women.. and lust, gluttony, sloth the top 3 for men? According to the catholic church, men are way more fun…
That, Steffi, is because the Roman Catholic church treats women as an inferior species.
I saw a car with a Darwin Fish on it yesterday. Surely displaying such a thing should be on the list?
And why is everyone so down on sloths? Poor old algae-covered things. Why not Pangolins? Or Aardvarks?
This religion stuff is very confusing to me.
I think the Vatican has decreed that evolution does happen in accordance with Jebus’s holy law (through their Pontifical Council for Culture – thank God! I was beginning to doubt my own descent, with
pontificationmodification).In fact, they’re even laying claim to the origins of
speciesthe idea, through St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas (see this Daily Torygramme article for a monocled review)So, although the
papistsRoman Catholics have appalling views on gender equality and possibly worse on child abuse, at least they’re one step ahead ofthe proddiesmany Protestant denominations on that score.Forsooth, IDers, though dost Protestant too much.
Thou dost, thou dost, thou dost (repeat 97 more times)
Mike – throw a coupla Hail Marys in there too, while you’re at it.
What?
I still want to know why everyone’s against sloths.
Sloths are widely accepted as being the most sinful of vertebrates. I can only assume it’s their murderous tendencies and pride that get them the bad reputation.
I had an old flatmate who was a great fan of sloths, however. And camels. He loved their
flatulenceeyelashes.I think it’s a tough call between them and goats. The later are widely considered as the epitome of the lustful creature. And have you seen the way the Devil is always represented? Goat’s feet, not sloth eyelashes (which would make for a very sorry devil)
I had a friend who said he had lots of trouble with cats and wildebeest, but what he really meant was cartesian dualism.
Henry, is that a joke if said in a Geordie accent? Otherwise I’m not sure I understand it.