All Seven Deadly Sins Committed At Church Bake Sale

Sin reaps consequences that are usually not visible during the time of disobedience. One major sin that many have committed is the sin of pride. Pride leads character’s to commit reckless actions and believe that he or she is greater than someone or something else. Two works of literary merit which feature the sin of pride are Paradise Lost and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

“There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. “'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance”

According to the theologians, pride is the worst of the seven deadly sins. therefore having pride in what you do is all about motivation. Getting motivated and doing something you love to achieve full potential is in a human nature. Scientifically spoke, it all begins from the bunch of chemicals that is happening in your brain. While all animals produce basic emotions like fear and anger, humans have highly developed social emotions, such as shame, guilt and pride which involve an awareness of what other people think and feel about us. The serotonin is the chemical that produces happiness in your brain.

The everyday “sins” of typical college students are not of great severity at first, but by consistently repeating the “sins”, they could possibly become habits. Thomas H. Benton’s essay “The Seven Deadly Sins of Students”, describes the seven “deadly sins” that a typical college student makes in everyday life and how the recurrence of these “sins” could lead to habitual behavior. The seven “deadly sins” explained in Benton’s essay is: Sloth, Greed, Anger, Lust, Gluttony, Envy, and Pride. Constantly repeating these “sins” will eventually become habits.

The cardinal sins are “sins that characterize fallen humanity,” according to orthodox Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church in particular (ReligionFacts). While the Bible does include lists of sins, none of these lists align with the traditional “deadly” sins known today; the list of seven cardinal sins were actually created in the fourth century by a monk named Evagrius Ponticus (ReligionFacts). After several revisions, a list of cardinal sins fell into more popular use when poet Dante Alighieri used them in The Divine Comedy (ReligionFacts). According to modern interpretations of the list, the seven sins are as follows:

Another example of pride would be with John Proctor. John Proctor was your everyday man. He was a farmer, he claimed to be Godly though he was said to never attend church. Not attending church then was very frowned upon and even considered a horrible sin. His wife, Elizabeth Proctor, was accused of witchcraft by Abigail Williams. Abigail did this to get revenge because Elizabeth fired her. Elizabeth did this because Abigail had an affair with John. He would not confess to being associated with the Devil because it was not true and he did not want shame brought to his name. Though his wife talked him into confessing, he would not sign his name to the paper. Not only did he not sign his name; he also ripped up the papers. This shows a great deal of pride as well, being that he would not confess because of the way society would look at him thinking that he was associated with the Devil.

Pride: noun: a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc. Although some might not believe it, today's society is filled with pride; from being proud of your heritage to being proud of your life in general, pride is all around. But the Catholic Church believes that pride is the absolute worst of the seven deadly sins because all a prideful person thinks of is only himself, and that is the exact opposite of what the Catholic Church teaches. In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts is coated in pride, like gasoline, just waiting for someone to light a match and start the flames. It moves the plot, it pushes the characters through ultimate

Pride is an attractive trait to possess. Acknowledging the other point of view of ways pride could be an unattractive quality to possess. Too much pride can damage others and even yourself. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” the narrator stated, “Let’s go Doodle, he didn’t answer… he fell backward onto the earth, he was bleeding from his mouth to his neck (pg 176).” Doodle was scared and frightened of what his brother would do.

"The sins described don't seem like sins at all, even if one accepts the religious significance of the term. But they spring from thoughts and behaviors that, overtime become habits."(Benton TSDSOS) For example, Institutions create a mindset for students that push them to take the path of least resistance; and instead of using self denial and self esteem they choose self indulgence. These choices and sins that they indulge in have consequences that can create more unhappiness and difficult paths later down the road. The seven sins that are of topic are, the Sloth, Greed, Anger, Lust, Gluttony, Envy, and finally Pride. These seven sins are the troubling behavior that students succumb to.

Pride is a deadly sin because people that are too prideful cannot recognize that pride is a problem that has to be dealt with. In most cases people do not realize their pride until a problem presents itself and they are forced to realize the truth. Dr. Maxwell says “Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us. As Stephen Covey has said, “It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it.” Without humility, we care about only one opinion—our own” (Maxwell). Even when pointed out people’s ego make them blind to their

Pride is a characteristic of having a high opinion of one’s self. An example of a prideful action is when Odysseus and his crew are escaping from the Cyclop, and he pauses to yell: “Cyclops, if any mortal ask who blinded you, tell him that Odysseus, raider of cities, is to blame”(Homer 85). In this scene, Odysseus stops his whole crew to get credit for blinding the Cyclop. Odysseus has such a high opinion of himself that he feels the urge announce his achievements. This excessive satisfaction in his achievement is the definition of pride, consequently meaning pride motivated Odysseus’s actions.

When reading The wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale and Hamlet I was able to see that sin was a very serious subject during that time, plays, stories and comedies were made explaining what a sin was and alerting people to be careful of committing a sin. Which make me remember how a long time ago during youth group we learned that the bible mentioned 667 sins, the whole group was amazed at how many were found, the person giving the devotional said that the reason the bible tells us what is a sin is to prevent us from doing them. A sin as it was taught to us is when a person commits and

In “The 7 Deadly Sins Explained by Real News Stories” by Andy Simmons, “The Fisherman and His Wife” by the Grimm brothers, and “Phaethon” told by Edith Hamilton, they all have examples/traits of a sin that ends up affecting them in a negative way.

Within the text Lust: Seven Deadly Sins written by, Simon Blackburn, which his goal is to teach his readers the meaning of lust and prove it is not just a sin, and that the meaning of lust means a lot more than what people think it’s meaning is. The meaning of lust is, “the enthusiastic desire that infuses the body for sexual activity and its pleasures for their own sake”. (Blackburn, p.19). The goal of sex is different for everyone, for some people their goal is just to get pleasure, and others it is a form a love to conceive a child, some do it just to prove that they can do it, some do it to get rid of someone or even to earn money, people look at sex in many different ways, some in a good way others in a way that makes it a sin.

In "All Seven Deadly Sins Committed at Church Bake Sale”, one is able to get a decent sense of the hypocrisy of religion through writing by the Onion. An annual bake sale is hosted by St. Mary’s church, where the masses are fed with homemade baked goods, and friendly competition crosses the line and leads to sin. Whether it is Mrs. Betty Wicks who “commits the sin of gluttony at every St. Mary’s bake sale, as well as most Friday nights at Old Country Buffet.” Or the young and beautiful Mellissa Wyckoff who catches the eyes of many married men, this essay showed how even a church event seems to be teeming with sin. Even in the final sentence of the essay, the speaker Coyle mentions how a “Guess Your Weight” booth was excluded due to so many people showing pride or envy.