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sin is a stranger in the soul; then it becomes a guest; and when we are habituated to it, it becomes as if the master of the house.

Leo Tolstoy capital sins

The Seven Deadly Sins are the main base of the Christian religion. They are seven "golden rules" to be a decent person and a true Christian. The breakage of each of the "rules" will result in death in Hell. These 7 capital sins make a definite borderline between what is good and what is bad. The Seven Deadly Sins represent the opposition to the seven major virtues, which each person should possess from the point-of-view of Christianity. They are: Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth. They are accordingly opposed to the seven primary Virtues: Humility, Love, Faith, Self-Control, Kindness, Generosity and Zeal. These virtues become the evaluation patterns of being a good man, a man with faith in God and in the people around him. Pride deals with overestimating one's value and achievements over the other people. Envy is connected with a strong drive to posses what other person has or to be like this person. Gluttony is an uncontrolled longing to food and other pleasures. Lust is a self-destructive desire fro sex, power and other bodies pleasures. Anger equals to irritation and fury, especially impatience towards the flaws of other people. Greed is a strong unwillingness to share the material good one has and Sloth is about not completing any spiritual or physical work.

Each of these sins is the o being despised in the contemporary world and at the same time each of them is common and ordinary in this world. These seven sins have always caused a lot of arguments and a lot of works have been dedicated to this issue. One of the brightest examples of such a work is David Fincher's "Seven." It is a story of a serial killer that makes each of the murderers a punishment for each of the seven "capital" sins. The sins shown in the film are related to the list of sins depicted in Dante's inferno. For Dante sins are always directed to destroy Love. Dante classifies all of the seven sins in three groups: perverted love, insufficient love and excessive love. Dante's point-of-view in the list of sins provides a detailed description of the punishments for the seven deadly sins. The killer John Doe from "Seven" uses these punishments for each of the corresponding victims in the film. For instance, the punishment for Gluttony according to Dante's Inferno is "lying in mud, besieged by snow, hail and filthy water." In "Seven" Dante's punishment can be observed when the police find a fat man with his face lying in old food and dirt everywhere. Dante sees these punishments as the logical result for being unjust towards other people, sinning, for reducing love in the world. The killer in the movie wants to stop the injustice: "We see a deadly sin on almost every street corner, and in every home, literally. And we tolerate it. Not anymore,"-he… READ MORE

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