Two sexes 'sin in different ways'
Two sexes 'sin in different ways'
Women are prouder than men, but men are more lustful, according to a Vatican report which states that the two sexes sin differently.
A Catholic survey found that the most common sin for women was pride, while for men, the urge for food was only surpassed by the urge for sex.
The report was based on a study of confessions carried out by Fr Roberto Busa, a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar.
The Pope's personal theologian backed up the report in the Vatican newspaper.
"Men and women sin in different ways," Msgr Wojciech Giertych, theologian to the papal household, wrote in L'Osservatore Romano.
"When you look at vices from the point of view of the difficulties they create you find that men experiment in a different way from women."
Msgr Giertych said the most difficult sin for men to face was lust, followed by gluttony, sloth, anger, pride, envy and greed.
For women, the most dangerous sins were pride, envy, anger, lust, and sloth, he added...
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Re: Two sexes 'sin in different ways'
only looking at catholic people
i wonder what the results would be like comparing people from other groups/religions.
a sin. is an action?
are feelings such as pride, anger lust..all sins?
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Why are they deadly?
Is life itself not deadly?
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Aren't they 'deadly' because the cause spiritual 'death' in the Afterlife?
Then again, 'deadly' is very very likely to be a mistranslation... from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to (old) English. Not a lot of room for clarity there.
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One of the beautiful things about Islam is that there is no such thing as a "thought" sin, so long as you don't act on it. But controlling it is in itself a virtue. Fantastic!
Hardest to combat/avoid/not act on.
Of course this is all from sins that were confessed and recorded...