I think the church included sloth as a sin so the peasants would keep grinding and not be complacent to live off of their garden and enjoy their little lives.
That grind mentality.
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Actually, we work harder than medieval peasants and the church specifically condemned working on Sundays.
Also the seven deadly sins predate Christianity.
Be healthy. Choose lust.
That is the cheap ass philosophy I would expect from a fast food restaurant
A tree does not move, and yet it thrives.
A tree moves towards the sky with a goal of growing and providing for the next generation of trees. Plus it connects with its neighbors through the roots it spreads.
While it is grounded it’s not complacent.
Is that the one someone crashed into
That story always kills me. How we don't all use "by the Tree of Ténéré" as a general purpose oath is beyond me
idk man this just sounds like depression
That's what sloth as a sin is meant to imply.
That makes sense, I feel it’s called a sin because it will warp your life for the worse if it takes root and hold of you.
I feel it wouldn’t necessarily start as depression, but that seems like one of the likely outcome of giving to that form of escapism.
It’s ‘easy’ to do nothing, but after a while of consistently choosing that you’re slowly getting buried by consequences, until you finally have enough of letting it get out of control but now struggle to fix the mountain of issues you’ve built up.
Yes I suspect that the original intent here was less about supernatural brownies points and much more about harmful lifestyle traps. The seven deadly sins seem to me to be mental compulsions that can lead to fixated and broken lifestyles without awareness or pushback. Like feeling sexual attraction is great, but not if your day to day life is focused solely on it. Relaxation and rest is great, but can lead to stagnation if not unchecked.
I'm not saying the Bible or Torah or other such texts weren't legitimately religious scripture to the devout, but they were also basically the popular self help books of the time as well, as I understand things
Yes, also important to note that generally they were called the deadly sins because once you committed them you were damned forever. So the "actual" sin they convey is the extreme of any of them.
So the "deadly" part of sloth was not laying around the house one day. It was the commitment to a life of sadness and self-pity. Greed is not desiring personal wealth, it's when you start destroying other people's lives to enrich yourself etc.
I feel this so much right now. Sitting on the couch trying to fight the lump. So I can do things, but the lump is heavy.