The seven deadly sins! I really only want to do one at a time, because there is honestly a lot to talk about with each of them, so consider this my intro to it. As a group, pagans are generally opposed to the idea of sins, or at least the labeling of certain actions as ‘sinful,’ because it seems that as a group we tend to have a knee-jerk reaction against anyone telling us what we should and shouldn’t do. We rule our own lives, and everything in them. The choices we make are determined by our own personal moral codes, and nothing will change that. Operating this way can have its benefits, but can also have its serious downsides. One of these downsides is a lack of guidance about what is right or wrong in our everyday lives. Knowing what sins are is supposed to help guide someone in their daily actions.
The big winners are the ones we are mostly familiar with: greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, pride, and gluttony. These are meant as guidelines for examining our actions to see if they are appropriate for our lives and harmful to ourselves or others. But how do we keep these things healthy? Pride isn’t a bad thing, you say. And that’s true, to a certain extent. But where’s that line? And where is that line for us? So, I want to start looking at these lines.
